Brett Chase

Air travel is more expensive and cramped than ever. Say More callers make suggestions for improving things, and question a Chicago-based United Airlines executive.

Good afternoon! It's Wednesday, and if you're looking to beat today's miserable heat, stay inside and fill out a survey about this newsletter. (Yes, I'll read every response.) Here's what you need to know today.

These are some of the longest term lengths that the board has approved in recent years, but Chicago Public Schools officials said these new contracts are paired with a new oversight process.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration says it will spend more than $520 to fix homes and the sewer infrastructure needed to help prevent future floods. Residents are growing impatient.

Chicago Magazine recently made an effort to mathematically rank Chicago's suburbs – all 205 of them.

Despite legislation protecting public libraries and schools from censorship on the basis of personal or partisan disapproval, attempts to ban books continue to surge across the country.

President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law five years ago, making June 19 a permanent federal holiday.

Good afternoon! It's Wednesday, and I'm pretending to be this cat in a gelato shop somewhere sunny. Here's what you need to know today.

Nurses everywhere are fed up. They’re organizing and walking picket lines more than ever before. Here in the Chicago area, more than 2,000 of them have voted to unionize in just the last month. On today’s In the Loop, we’ll hear first-hand accounts from a couple of local nurses and a journalist…

Michael Tadin Jr. built an “unauthorized” parking lot without submitting a plan to manage stormwater, city says. Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times file