On Tuesday, Rob Johnson picked up a piece of driftwood from Clark Street Beach. Visiting the area from Owensboro, Kentucky, for a business meeting, he said the souvenir showed signs of having washed up...

When Jeff Green was growing up in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, he’d spend his summers and winters on Howard Beach — sunbathing one season, sledding another. “I recently drove by there,...

Norris University Center is shaking things up. A Starbucks Coffee will replace the Dunkin’ that was previously located on the ground floor of Norris starting in Spring Quarter. Shake Smart, a smoothie...

Stabilizing Evanston’s shoreline could cost around $46 million, says Evanston Division Fire Chief Kim Kull. This estimate accounts for the redoing of the rock wall that lines the town’s lakefront...