The World Health Organization designated the highly infectious Omicron COVID-19 variant to be a cause for concern Friday.  As gatherings start to ramp up for the holiday season, local doctors and scientists...

As an undergraduate student at University of Illinois Chicago, David Haghnaji would play in poker tournaments all weekend. Other players took breaks, but he trained himself to stay up from Friday evening...

Frances Aparicio, author of “Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago,” spoke about her recently published book and engaged in a panel discussion with three intralatina/o Northwestern...

Facing cross-city rivals University of Illinois at Chicago for the first time since 2009 on Wednesday night, Northwestern hopes to ride a steady effort out of the gate to its first road win of the season. The...

Three of Illinois’ leading budget-makers braced their constituents at a town hall meeting Wednesday in Chicago for coming action — or lack thereof — on the state’s budget crisis. State Sen....