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The alderman in the 49th Ward became the first elected official in the country to hand over the purse strings to his constituents in 2009. Three years later, the "participatory budgeting" experiment is still attracting in new residents to planning meetings.

Since 2001, the unofficial kickoff of the summer concert season in the Chicago area has been the Summer Camp Music Festival at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Ill. In each of those 11 years, including this weekend, the headliner has been moe., a quintet from upstate New York that doesn’t discriminate against any musical genre.

The Smithe brothers – known for their Walter E. Smithe custom furniture and funny TV commercials – have a new one that starts airing Thursday featuring the 1970s Chicago band Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah.

Brian Wilson all the rage, as 44 songs survey 50 years of music Brian Wilson broke character Monday at the Chicago Theatre in the first of two 50th anniversary concerts by his longtime band.

Chicago is the polka capital of America. More than 1 million people of Polish descent live in the Chicago area. Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. was the ambassador for this community and beyond. He died Monday of natural causes in Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights. He was 70 years old. The founder of the Chicago-based Versatones band as well as the independent Bel-Aire Records in Bridgeview, Mr ...

Wrapping up the current leg of its tour through the South, Chicago postrock band Wilco headlined the the opening concert of the Mud Island Amphitheatre summer series on Saturday night.

Bonnie Raitt claimed she was “intimidated” by the Chicago Theatre, but that hardly seemed the case Saturday in the first of two sold-out concerts at the Loop landmark.

This week's NATO meeting may have put a chill on attendance Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, but it didn't turn down the temperature on the music making a bit.

CHICAGO — Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit. Their attorney, Sarah Gelsomino, said the men are "absolutely in shock and have no idea where these...

Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET CHICAGO -- Three anti-NATO protesters charged with terrorism conspiracy planned to attack four Chicago police stations, the local campaign headquarters for President Barack Obama and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, prosecutors alleged in court Saturday.

Three anti-NATO protesters planned to attack four Chicago police stations, the local campaign headquarters for President Barack Obama and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, prosecutors alleged.