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NORTHALSTED — Chicago Pride Fest returns with its 25th edition this summer, and organizers just announced this year’s lineup.
Pride Fest headliners include Grammy winner Durand Bernarr, singer G Flip, pop artist and TV personality Willa Ford, Grammy nominee MNEK and more. GAG, a party series by remix artist DJ Alex Chapman and Zoe Glitter, is also on deck.
<...WOODLAWN — Students at Hyde Park Academy High School are grieving the loss of a third classmate in less than a month after a teen was shot and killed near the school during dismissal on Wednesday.
About 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were shot at a bus stop outside the South Side YMCA in the 6300 block of Stony Island Avenue in Woodla...
PORTAGE PARK — Six Corners’ beloved City News Cafe was closed for a few hours Thursday morning after a car drove into the facade during a police chase, officials said.
According to a police report, the crash occurred around 4:30 a.m. at the cafe at 4018 N. Cicero Ave. Newsstand owner Joe Angelastri said an employee discovered the damage when he arrived to open the ...
MCKINLEY PARK — When visiting The Video Strip, customers are met with a movie rental collection so large that “it would take a couple of lifetimes to watch everything in here,” said owner Joe Trutin.
Increasingly, customers go into the McKinley Park store for reasons other than movie rentals and leave in awe at the scale of the DVDs on offer.
“It’s always...
BRONZEVILLE — A veteran Bronzeville teacher is opening her “closet” to students in need of prom finery.
Dunbar Vocational High School teacher Tyesa Walton has been busy keeping the racks inside her “Chloe’s Closet” filled with gently loved dresses for the occasion. Students from all over come to the space, housed in a former storage room inside the school, 3000 S. ...