Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — On the third night of Harry Styles’ six-night residency in Chicago, as the British pop star, promising actor and spiritual scion of Mick Jagger took the stage, the United Center rattled, buzzed, seemed to implode in a white-hot screech of 23,…

GEOQUIZ: What is the second largest ocean in the world? Answer: The Atlantic Ocean. Though it is about 41.1 million square miles, it covers just slightly more than half the area that comprises the Pacific Ocean.

CHICAGO — During the height of the pandemic, 4 in 10 Americans misled others about their COVID-19 status or their adherence to public health measures designed to prevent the spread of the virus, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Network Ope…

Deshawn Morgan was immersed in Chicago’s West Side gang culture before he was even out of grade school, dealing drugs at age 12 and rising in the ranks of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. Along the way, Morgan told a federal jury last week, he befriended k…

ROCKFORD, Ill. — The front line of this year’s fierce fight for control of the U.S. House of Representatives cuts straight through the river cities and rural communities of the 17th Congressional District in northwestern Illinois. But on the streets of…

CHICAGO — Last year, the opening night of the Chicago International Film Festival told it like it was. One film (Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”) played indoors, at the Music Box Theatre. That same night, across town, another film (Todd Haynes’ “T…

In 2017, the “Luckiest Girl Alive” bestselling author and, now, screenwriter Jessica Knoll wrote about what happened to her at age 15, and how it informed the writing of the book that became the Netflix adaptation, released Friday. The opening of Knoll…

NORMAL, Ill. — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey engaged in a chippy first face-to-face broadcast debate Thursday night, as each man frequently interrupted the other with claims of lies, deception and hypocrisy. Char…

Growing up as an NBA fan, DeMar DeRozan often felt a disconnect from his favorite players. “I remember being a kid, looking back, I didn’t know how my favorite player sounded when he talked, what he’d do when I’m not watching him play, what his life is…

CHICAGO — Harry Styles has postponed his first concert in Chicago at the United Center, according to posts on social media, due to illness among the band and crew. A tweet by the United Center shortly before 3 p.m. advised: “Out of an abundance of caut…