The Daily Herald took second place in the large-market sweepstakes award Friday in the Illinois Press Association's 2020 newspaper contest. The newspaper also finished second for general excellence. The Stuart R. Paddock Memorial Trophy, named for t...

Cheryl Corley, Chicago-based correspondent for NPR, and Greg Kot, former music critic for the Chicago Tribune, have been named recipients of Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Chicago Headline Club. The two will be honored at this year's Peter Lisag...

On the night of May 8, 1991, after a Cubs loss in Houston, I walked into the visiting manager's office at the Astrodome. Since we were alone, and after discussing that evening's events with Don Zimmer, I asked the Cubs manager if he had thought at a...

Over a dozen suburban libraries are hosting “Sound Opinions Presents: The 10 Most Important Artists in Chicago Music History” on Tuesday, May 11. It will be 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Zoom. Join music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, hosts of the world's...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's top prosecutor apologized Wednesday because an attorney who works under her implied in court that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was holding a gun when a police officer fatally shot him, and she acknowledged that neither she nor an...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The revelation that a juror who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer in the killing of George Floyd had participated in a march in Washington, D.C., months before the trial is unlikely to affect that guilty verdict, ...

Cook County's top prosecutor apologized Wednesday because an attorney who works under her implied in court that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was holding a gun when a police officer fatally shot him, and she acknowledged that neither she nor anyone in her...

Rebuked by his colleagues for promoting a tweet that referred to the media as "the enemy of the people," Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass now says he shouldn't have done it. As reported here last week Kass retweeted a comment from Tom Bevan, co-...