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Dozens of protesters blocked entrances to Delaney Hall, a massive ICE detention facility in Newark, for hours Sunday evening after word spread that guards were trying to move a detainee involved in an ongoing work and hunger strike. The detainee, Martin Soto, was among those who announced the strike
Liam Kwon, 10, hoists his trophy. He's competing in nationals this week. Liam Kwon and Jay Nayak will join nearly 250 spellers from around the country. [ more › ]
NORWOOD PARK — Chicago firefighters, friends and family members gathered Friday to say a final goodbye to fallen Fire Department Engineer Steven M. Decker. Decker, a 30-year department veteran, died May 14 after suffering a medical emergency during an equipment test on the Far North Side, according
Residents of Haven Plaza apartments have been advised not to take showers, pending an investigation of the water supply. [ more › ]
Last month, I provided full review coverage of a film festival for the first time. Over 12 days, I watched 15 feature films and nine shorts from 17 different countries, catching as many as three movies in a day, enduring the exhausting but fulfilling whiplash of quickly alternating between genres (a
Developers of the residential community northeast of Houston, which recently settled a lawsuit with the Department of Justice, accuse Jones and former Texas gubernatorial candidate Pete Chambers of false claims of being “occupied” by immigrants without legal status.
LINCOLN SQUARE — Atelier, a Michelin-starred restaurant that has called Lincoln Square home since 2023, has closed. Owner Tim Lacey, himself an acclaimed bartender and Lincoln Square resident for over 20 years, announced the closure in a note posted to the restaurant’s website and social media. It’s
GRANT PARK — Rapper Common, indie band Beach Bunny and R&B artist Babyface are among the acts set to headline Taste of Chicago, July 8-12 in Grant Park, the city of Chicago announced Thursday. The annual free festival returns to a primetime stretch in the summer after being bumped to September b
After Coral Gables blocked a restaurant owner's proposal to host World Cup parties, he's selling his 25-year-old bierhaus.
MUSEUM CAMPUS—For more than 130 years, Chicago’s Field Museum has been enlightening the public about the incredible diversity found among the natural world and in human culture. Now it embraces an evolution of its own — with the opening of the eagerly anticipated “Pokémon Fossil Museum” this w
LIRR workers are some of the highest paid transit employees in the country. But most everyone at the MTA, including many people with office jobs at the agency's headquarters, gets premium pay. As LIRR workers went on strike, MTA Chair Janno Lieber pointed out they're the highest paid railr
Immigration right activists protest outside a Metropolis Garage in Manhattan on May 14, 2026, demanding the company stop leasing spaces to the federal government for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A federal government spokesperson said the contract termination would not affect its enforcement
Because nearly 30,000 of yucky water accidentally poured out, here are your early links: Alison Roman's shoppy shop, vintage Roosevelt Island tram cars, idling fines for delivery trucks and more. [ more › ]
The Texas A&M urban flood study, analyzing more than 40,000 weather events in major Texas cities over two decades, found that cities can actually change the weather, depending on the type of weather event.
CHICAGO — Charges against four Broadview protesters were dropped Thursday in a stunning turn of events after the U.S. Attorney’s Office admitted federal prosecutors had committed misconduct. The dismissal of all charges against the four protesters quickly followed U.S. District Judge April Perry’s d
CHICAGO — The city is gearing up for the long Memorial Day weekend after an eventful week in Chicago. Here’s what Block Club reporters and photographers captured while covering the city’s neighborhoods this week: Kat Abughazaleh (center) exits with her legal team after a hearing at Everett McKinley
MERRILLVILLE, INDIANA — Launched as a new kind of gun retailer in 2012, the Range USA chain was built to look and feel different from the smaller, unwelcoming shops and gun ranges often associated with the industry. Its founder and president, Tom Willingham, wanted to make the experience of buying a
WEST LAWN — Marea Salas stopped by the city’s last JCPenney to buy sundresses for her granddaughter this week. Salas lives minutes away from the department store within Ford City Mall, 7601 S. Cicero Ave. Shopping at the store has become routine, she said. And this week, Salas was among d
PILSEN — More than 3,000 braids and 50,000 yards of lace ribbon have become markers of a movement to resist the federal government’s crackdown on Latino immigrants. This weekend, that movement is coming to Chicago. For months, Ponte Your Moños has hosted pop-up fundraising events where people
A Kendall goth shop is the latest casualty of Miami's skyrocketing rent prices.
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