CHICAGO — The teacher and novelist Peter Ferry is dead. He died at age 77, less than a year ago, on the morning of Sept.17 to be precise, but he was the topic of conversation recently when a ...

Maria Izworska, center, and Weronika Kotarba, right, of Poland, visit St. Peter’s Square on May 20, 2025, at the Vatican. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Chicago “was already famous before ...

Audiences floated at the lip of the ocean, the waves casually slapping at the bottom of movie screens, reminding them, ...

(Chicago Tribune) Seven of the birds at Lincoln Park Zoo reached maturity while living inside McCormick Bird House. Two of them were photographed and featured on U.S. Postal Service stamps for a ...

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune via TNS via Getty Images, FILE Johnson, a former Cook County commissioner and teacher, won the mayoral race in April 2023 after running a progressive campaign with a ...

Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) In a rare acceptance of regulations ... Liam McNeeley and Collin Murray-Boyles. Jase Richardson has a meeting scheduled with the Bulls later this week.

An artist’s rendering of the planned Bally’s Chicago casino complex at 777 W. Chicago Ave., on the site of the old Chicago Tribune printing plant along the Chicago River.

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ... (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest ...

and a Chicago-born priest whose sense of mission was forged in the crucible of Latin America’s ecclesial and social struggles, his election as the 266th successor to St. Peter evokes both ...

The Chicago Bears chose Gray with the No. 10 pick overall in the 1938 NFL draft. (Chicago Tribune archive) How unimpressed was the Tribune with the Bears’ first-round pick in 1938? The newspaper ...

A team of several officers burst into family's apartment, as their sons Peter and Jack — then 9 and 5 years old, respectively — sat inside. CBS News Chicago's investigation found officers were ...

Chicago native Malik T ... In December 1991, the 6-foot-8-inch Murray was named one of the Tribune’s Athletes of the Week after sinking 40 points and making 30 rebounds in two narrow St ...