Michael Silverblatt’s particular genius was not in what a novel or story said, but how it went about saying it.

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Years of the Reader” is a big, beautiful book that coincides, serendipitously, with the “rebirth” of the Chicago Reader itself.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill Thursday that outlines a financial structure for a Chicago Bears stadium in Hammond, ...

The baseball that was deflected by Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman during Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins on Oct. 14, 2003, at Wrigley Field, went up ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

The Chicago Bears brain trust is targeting speed among the defensive line candidates in the NFL draft. Who among the top prospects has it?

The landmark building was rescued from demolition and badly needs restoration. It’s not a relic, its owners say, it’s real, living history you can touch.

1951: Dorothy Mae Stevens, a 23-year-old whose frozen body had been found on Feb. 7, 1951, lying in a gangway at 3108 S. Vernon Ave., told the Tribune from her bed at Michael Reese hospital that she ...

Heather Mack — the Chicago woman convicted of helping kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase on the Indonesian ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 26, 1974 ...