North Chicago News

Today, the 25th Anniversary of World No Tobacco Day, the City of Chicago Department of Public Health reminds all Chicagoans that smokers can call the Illinois Tobacco Quit line to get help to stop smoking.

Aides to Mayor Rahm Emanuel have repeatedly said they've procured tens of millions of dollars in federal funding to cover security costs for the NATO summit-essentially an assurance that Chicagoans won't be the only taxpayers who have to pony up for Emanuel's idea of hosting the international meeting.

A 46-year-old man who's argued that he was wrongfully convicted of setting a fire that killed six people is getting out of prison after 24 years now that prosecutors have dropped their case against him.

History has a way of repeating itself, and the parallels between our city's founding fathers and four illustrious Chicagoans - plus one iconic local corporation - will be highlighted next week at the Chicago History Museum's 18th annual Making History dinner.

Forged out of a partnership between Built In Chicago and New World Ventures, the first annual Moxie Awards has recently cropped up and will be taking place on June 21 at Park West on West Armitage Ave.

Jim Darby and Patrick Bova have been a couple for 48 years and hope lawsuits filed in Cook County will let them get married by their 50th anniversary.

Obama is carrying out the "anticolonial" agenda of his Kenyan father. Mr. Ricketts's aides said he was one of roughly two dozen investors, providing only 5 percent of the film's budget.

Sixty-four percent of Chicagoans approve of the job Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing, 57 percent believe he has improved the city's business climate and 78 percent like the way Emanuel handled the NATO summit, a new poll shows.

Emanuel hasn't said a thing since the president took away his G8 conference. In fact, he flew the coop.

The heat is over, at least for the foreseeable future. A huge realignment is underway across the Lower 48 and is likely to slash more than 30 degrees off daytime temperatures in the next two days.

This year could see the warmest spring ever recorded in Chicago and -- thanks to an unseasonably mild winter -- southern Lake Michigan waters are 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal, forecasters say.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation has a YouTube channel that's drawn few views despite hosting videos on topics of wide interest to Chicago residents in general and architecture buffs in particular.

Officials are investigating a shooting incident that wounded a City of North Chicago police officer Friday night, according to James Jackson, North Chicago's interim chief of police.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. -For a second time this month, the Lake County Coroner's Office is conducting a death investigation of a small child.

What seems like a good idea at the start can quickly go sour, as anyone who's ever offered to pick up the tab in a crowded bar can attest.

City Clerk Susana Mendoza announces that Wilma, center, a Chocolate Lab, is the first Dog of Distinction winner, during a press conference at the city clerk's office today.

Usually, there's only one way you get to watch a recording session in process: you have to know someone, either among the musicians or among the studio staff.

He's reaching out to Chicagoans offended by word that his father's political pac was pitched a campaign to smear President Obama .

Mayor Rahm Emanuel stuck with the tough talk on Chicago's parking meter deal today, pledging to fight a new bill for $22 million the meter leasing company recently sent the city for lost revenue.

Two of Chicago's best event producers, Cece and Melinda with Raymi Productions, in their latest e-blast just revealed three common misconceptions about themselves... and then .