Erin McElroy

Sandwiched between the honking vehicles, a rumbling ‘L’ train and the sputtering of tour boats is a spot along the Chicago River where park district employees put out poles and lines ho…

For 75 years, the corner of West 35th and South Halsted streets in the city’s Bridgeport neighborhood was home to the landmark Bridgeport Restaurant. The eatery shuttered in 2022 and sat vaca…

WGN Chicago Retired carpenter's transformative experience leads him to create hospital equipment for the people who helped him

Jennifer Billock, a journalist and author, uses cheese to predict the future as a cheese fortune teller at Beautiful Rind in Chicago’s Logan Square, a practice that dates back to the 2nd Cent…

Pumpkin farms used to involve a simple hayride out to the field to pick a pumpkin. But today at farms like Bengtson’s Farm, it can be a full-day experience complete with animatronics, a petti…

WGN Chicago ‘It's your passion. It's your life': Wildlife rehabilitation center in Kane County aids injured animals in their journey to recovery

Chicagoan tap dancer and choreographer Bril Barrett is known as a “tap-activist” who has impacted hundreds of young people from Chicago and has been awarded the 2024 National Heritage f…

Lily Goodfellow, a sports reporter with down syndrome, is changing the game by becoming the first student with a disability to earn a media literacy and journalism certificate from the College of D…

District 127’s Agricultural Pathway collaboration with Liberty Prairie is popular with students, offering dual high school and college credits for classes in farming, and allowing them to ear…

Chicago band Hello Weekend’s lead singer Christina Bagby has been encouraging people to embrace their vulnerability and embrace their true selves, by taking off her wig onstage and singing a …