Chicago Travel News

The Rolling Stones Tour, entitled Fifty And Counting, dives hard into the second half of their scheduled concert dates with three shows at the United Center in Chicago this coming week.

Bad news came Friday for art house cinema fans. After several rocky months under the new ownership of Eddie Carranza, the Portage Theater was padlocked and closed indefinitely.

Plot: At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life.

Memorial Day comes a bit early this year thanks to the last Monday in May always being designated Memorial Day.

Newswise - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the appointment of eight more outstanding international scientists as part of its Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs program.

A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.

It's famous for being a pizza city, a hot dog city and an Italian beef city. But these days, with local craft breweries such as Revolution, Atlas and 5 Rabbit gaining steam and Goose Island turning 25, Chicago is gaining another reputation to help wash down its longstanding ones.

Broadway In Chicago just announced ALTON BROWN LIVE! THE EDIBLE INEVITABLE TOUR coming to Chicago for one night only on February 8, 2014 at the Oriental Theatre .

Ed. Paul Durica and Bill Savage Reading Sat 6/1, 1 PM Newberry Library 60 W. Walton newberry.org free "Chicago has been called, in its time, the wickedest city in the world, and somehow or other the impression has gone abroad that it is really a very wicked place indeed." And yet: "It is possible for a perfectly moral person, one used to all the ... (more)

On an unseasonably warm Friday evening in May, minutes before facing the biggest hometown crowd of his young career, Chance the Rapper races a skateboard around the barren downtown-Chicago office space that's temporarily doubling as his dressing room.

Chicago looks good from every angle, whether in the air from one of its towering skyscrapers or from down below via a boat ride along the river.

Want to get in beach-body shape for summer? Replace your mattress if it's seen better days.

Gasoline prices are up most everywhere, but for a painful change in Kansas, they're up by a greater amount at fueling stations in the nation's middle.

St. Louis County is loaning Metro $400 million to pay off debt, according to a KMOX story cited by the St.

Chevrolet unveils the 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel Thursday, February 7, 2013 at the Chicago Auto Show in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago businesswoman and current Commerce secretary nominee Penny Pritzker faced few tough questions at her Senate hearing Thursday.

On stretches of First Avenue in New York City, one general traffic lane was converted to a bus lane and another was converted to a protected bike lane without affecting traffic volumes or speeds.

Recently, we all heard and read about the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh.

The Chicago Blues Festival returns and is anticipated to welcome more than 500,000 fans.

Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.