ZAQS.ORG

Special Episode: Bearing Witness to the Blitz

9 minutes ago

8 killed, 30 wounded in Labor Day weekend gun violence

2 hours ago

A Chicago couple was poised to open a new Lincoln Avenue bistro. Then the city shut down their street

3 hours ago

Art Institute unveils ode to 'relentless experimenter' Mary Cassatt, including tale of long lost Chicago mural

3 hours ago

Bearing the Blitz

6 days ago

Operation Midway Blitz by the numbers: 68 days, 4,000 detained, 2,700 deported

3 hours ago

A look back at how Operation Midway Blitz played out

3 hours ago

Photos: What Operation Midway Blitz left behind

3 hours ago

Midway Blitz: One year later

33 minutes ago

Food and Drink

1 year ago

In new cookbook 'Kari,' curry gets its due, with a Midwestern accent

3 hours ago

Bears have had plenty of elite players — just not at quarterback

1 hour ago

Cubs laud Brewers as among baseball's best, but shouldn't Cubs be, too? It doesn't look like it

14 hours ago

Cubs reliever Ryan Rolison heeds advice from wife, who said he was 'boring to watch'

14 hours ago

Dear Abby: Would rather not keep in touch with talkative old friend

3 hours ago

The Chicago Mini Crossword

7 days ago

Celebrate jobs — while we still have them — on Labor Day

4 days ago

Northwestern must elevate — not retreat from — African studies program

13 days ago

Stand by Second Amendment but don't deny damage guns can cause

7 days ago

Obama Center's First Amendment fail

6 days ago

CFD: 1 dead on CTA Red Line tracks near 63rd Street

15 hours ago

Body found in car on Dan Ryan near Rate Field

21 hours ago

EDM-heavy ARC Music Fest brings 'house home' with international DJs, local up-and-comers like Virago

21 hours ago

Lincoln's bloody gloves resurface

23 hours ago

Some cyclists at Bike the Drive dream of safer roads for all

1 day ago

Boeing's image is deeply bruised, but the company's campaign money is still good with Illinois politicians

8 days ago

Kiss-cam scandal brewing in Lyons Township between elected officials

10 days ago

Did Trump detain the 'worst of the worst'' in Chicago last fall?

5 days ago

After lobbyist who's under 65 got tax breaks for seniors, Cook County made him pay up. Then, it renewed them.

11 days ago

6-month-old dead, 7 others hurt in rollover crash on I-57 in south suburbs

21 hours ago

Nation and World

1 year ago

Armed man charged toward Democratic candidate for Ohio governor at fair, police say

21 hours ago

Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in US thanks to Iran War and refinery issues

21 hours ago

Federal investigators probe Amazon cargo jet's runway crash that killed 5 in Miami

22 hours ago

Lincoln's blood-stained gloves from his assassination resurface in California museum

1 day ago

Hourslong SWAT response concludes in Logan Square

49 minutes ago

Pregnant 16-year-old girl shot in Little Village

1 hour ago

Cop responding to call hurt in Near West Side crash

33 minutes ago

Man seriously injured, woman missing after vehicle plunges into Little Calumet River in West Pullman

2 hours ago

Things To Do

4 years ago

New serial killer exhibition in Chicago offers rare artifacts from John Wayne Gacy, H.H. Holmes

3 days ago

Murals and Mosaics

1 year ago

Roseland 'cop house' mural features the neighborhood teens want to see

3 days ago

10 storefront theater shows to see in Chicago this fall

4 days ago

Museums and Zoos

1 year ago

2 more belugas die at Shedd Aquarium

4 days ago

USA Dodgeball National Championships to draw top players to Bedford Park this weekend

3 days ago

White Sox nearing surprising AL Central title behind remodeled player acquisition process

15 hours ago

The Bears won the Panthers trade — and now need to win because of it

17 hours ago

Bears practice report: RB Kyle Monangai returns

19 hours ago

If Bears can't answer abounding questions about their defense, they're headed for a .500 season

1 day ago

Notre Dame pours it on in second half to rout Wisconsin

1 day ago

'I'm really going to miss that light': Former Bears FB Matt Suhey, part of 1985 championship team, dies at 68

2 hours ago

Bears RB D'Andre Swift somehow 'finding another gear,' sees fast start coming for rushing attack

3 days ago

Chicago sports' bright future on display as Bears, Bulls, Cubs stars have 'started something pretty cool'

3 days ago

Bears' rare 'diamond' Colston Loveland has the wedding invite to prove it

3 days ago

Chicago Packer: Jayden Reed wears West Side childhood on his arm

4 days ago

Is the Bulls' Matas Buzelis almost a forgotten man? It feels that way

2 days ago

Bears' Caleb Williams, Bulls players lead PCA cheering section

4 days ago

SEC sues LSU, claiming the school recruited pro athletes against league rules

4 days ago

Horoscope for Tuesday, September 08, 2026

9 hours ago

Dear Abby: Boyfriend wants to live with her, but not with her son

1 day ago

Horoscope for Monday, September 07, 2026

1 day ago

Have you been swarmed by biting flies? Why they're 'no joke'

3 days ago

Man dies of heat-related causes on South Side, raising Cook County's heat death toll to 14

3 days ago

No relief from the heat as September kicks off. Is this normal?

6 days ago

New Sox Park? Future owner Justin Ishbia announces proposal for riverside stadium at 'The Railyards'

2 days ago

Housing and Development

1 year ago

Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest is slated for demolition

3 days ago

What do you think of efforts to build data centers in Chicago? Here's what you told us

3 days ago

Top five moments from Bears QB Caleb Williams' 'Hot Ones' debut

4 days ago

Create the perfect bite with spicy shrimp with sweet corn salsa

6 days ago

Try this simple no-cook tomato sauce to beat peak summer heat

6 days ago

High School Football

5 months ago

New country, new sport: Odurose Acheampong, an exchange student from Ghana, tries out football at Young

1 day ago

Super 25 Football Rankings

15 days ago

Michael O'Brien's Super 25 high school football rankings for Week 4

1 day ago

High school football schedule for Week 4 of the 2026 season

1 hour ago

Northwestern's defense bends but doesnt break in season-opening win

2 days ago

Illinois opens season with 42-23 victory against visiting UAB

4 days ago

College football Week 1 picks: Will Notre Dame make easy work of Wisconsin at Lambeau Field?

4 days ago

Kendall Gill, Will Perdue, Scott Williams, Robbie Hummel expected to be in Bulls' TV analyst rotation

4 days ago

Bulls' Noa Essengue earning short leash as a puppy that won't bite

9 days ago

The Caleb Wilson hype train is real and full steam ahead for the Bulls

15 days ago

Do the Blackhawks have a path to fourth place in the Central Division?

2 days ago

Blackhawks' Frank Nazar hopes to convert more opportunities this season with new teeth, new teammate

9 days ago

Alex Vlasic eager to speak playoffs into existence for Blackhawks: 'It's a matter of time'

16 days ago

At least 5 dead after Amazon cargo plane barrels off runway at Miami airport

1 day ago

Illinois joins lawsuit against latest Trump admin push to cut funding for youth gender-affirming care

3 days ago

Federal judge told 'things are no longer quiet' as Midway Blitz lawsuit faces critical November ruling

5 days ago

Mega hailstone officially broke state record during 'most severe year for weather in recent memory'

5 days ago

Back-to-back bond rating upgrades for Illinois boost Pritzker's reelection bid

5 days ago

Suburban woman facing murder charges after killing 2-year-old before attempting self-harm

2 days ago

Under pressure following drug arrest, Rosemont's Mark Stephens resigns as chairman of Triton College's board

2 days ago

Mother charged with killing 2-year-old child in Frankfort before trying to harm herself

3 days ago

Extreme heat warning canceled early on third day of brutal temperatures in Chicago area

4 days ago

Chicago extends program offering free Wi-Fi to CPS students

4 days ago

Chicago School Board

3 months ago

CPS students ordered to stay indoors during extreme heat warning

5 days ago

Craig Counsell or Pat Murphy? We went to Whitefish Bay for the answer

1 day ago

The remarkable story of the Holocaust survivor who made Barack Obama's tan suit

3 days ago

Legislative inspector general has some explaining to do

1 day ago

Big Tobacco, toymakers pay for the harm they've caused. Why not gunmakers?

1 day ago

Weariness, wariness likely to follow blue-collar union voters to the polls

1 day ago

Baseball has eased America out of its slumps

3 days ago

Letters to the Editor

7 years ago

Steinem guided my way

1 day ago

Employee-owned businesses do a good job protecting, uplifting workers

3 days ago

Bears can stay. Suits can take a hike.

4 days ago

2 men shot to death in Englewood home; 1 in custody

3 hours ago

West Garfield Park

10 hours ago

2 men wounded in West Garfield Park shooting

10 hours ago

2 boys critically wounded in Grand Boulevard shooting

11 hours ago

Friday, September 4, 2026

3 days ago

Can we really separate the art from the artist?

3 days ago

WBEZ's Weekly News Recap: Dangerous heat, two more beluga whale deaths, and more

3 days ago

Thursday, September 3, 2026

4 days ago