Chicago

Up in smoke: a former charcoal factory in Chicago

The industrial building, originally used to make charcoal, has been minimally restored and adapted into a stunning home

Marzia Nicolini

20, Oct, 2024 @1:00 PM

The cannabis industry is awaiting a legal green light, but can businesses survive?

Legal gray area surrounding the drug makes it difficult to prepare next steps, with rescheduling a perpetual threat

Hannah Harris Green

16, Oct, 2024 @9:00 AM

Trump vows to impose tariffs as experts warn of price hikes and angry allies

In often-combative conversation with Bloomberg editor in Chicago, Trump says ‘tariff’ is his favorite word

Lauren Aratani

15, Oct, 2024 @7:40 PM

Four people killed in shooting on Chicago train – reports

Shooting occurred at the Forest Park CTA Blue Line station early on Monday, according to police

Edward Helmore

02, Sep, 2024 @4:45 PM

Severe turbulence injures seven people on United Airlines flight from Cancun

Rough weather forces flight from Mexico to Chicago to make emergency landing in Memphis

Guardian staff

30, Aug, 2024 @12:04 PM

US midwest braces for hottest days this summer, with 55m under heat alerts

Chicago, Des Moines, Topeka and other cities experiencing extreme heat ‘with little to no overnight relief’

Erum Salam

26, Aug, 2024 @4:50 PM

‘This is my political home’: how 30 Gaza ceasefire delegates changed the Democratic convention

The anti-war delegates worked tirelessly, staging a sit-in and moving more than 300 Harris delegates to join them

Rachel Leingang in Chicago

25, Aug, 2024 @12:00 PM

‘Dirt bike culture is Black culture’: the organization fighting to legalize the sport

In its mission to uplift Black communities, Baltimore’s B-360 is pushing for policy changes and public dirt bike spaces

Melissa Hellmann

25, Aug, 2024 @11:00 AM

Harris urges America to choose ‘freedom and fairness’ over Trump extremism – as it happened

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Helen Sullivan (now); with Chris Stein in Chicago and Sam Levin(earlier)

23, Aug, 2024 @6:03 AM

Harris makes forceful speech – and skewers the menace from Mar-a-Lago

Her acceptance address was short on policy and poetry, but the Democratic nominee took the fight to Donald Trump

David Smith in Chicago

23, Aug, 2024 @5:49 AM

‘Brat, what’s that?’: Harris’s meme fame (sort of) makes its way to the DNC

Younger generations have anointed the vice-president, but the traditional base may not relate to the pop culture term

Sam Levine in New York and Ankita Rao, David Smith and Ed Pilkington in Chicago

22, Aug, 2024 @4:00 PM

Uncommitted holds sit-in outside Democratic convention after Palestinians denied a speaker

Movement launched protest after party rejected requests for Palestinian American to speak on the main stage