CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago woman has created a new tool for styling hair. Connie Boatman-Tate grew up in Cabrini-Green and had an unconventional path, but ended up as an inventor. "When I was growing ...

The Chicago Housing Authority is again regrouping on a key slice of its long-delayed Near North Side redevelopment after the withdrawal of its developer partners threw plans for hundreds of units into ...

On March 28, artists Jan Tichy and Efrat Appel put 134 self-contained, battery-powered LED modules in each of Chicago high-rise housing project Cabrini-Green’s 134 vacated apartments. Cabrini-Green ...

EXCLUSIVE: The story of the demolition of the Cabrini-Green public housing development in Chicago is the basis for a new podcast starring Patina Miller, Corey Stoll and Harry Lennix. The Raising Kanan ...

A new podcast explores how the death of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis led to Cabrini-Green being torn down. The Last Days of Cabrini-Green tells the story of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis and his mother ...

After School Matters, a long-standing group that offers teen programming, began Wednesday a $14 million renovation on a 36,000-square-foot facility near the former Cabrini-Green public housing ...

CHICAGO – On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 17, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1955: A Braniff Airways twin-engine ...

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1910: A two-day fire at the Union Stockyards in Chicago killed 23 firefighters, including Chief James “Big Jim” Horan. The ...