Mavis Staples To Headline This Year's Blues Festival
Gospel and rhythm and blues legend Mavis Staples is the headliner for this year's Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park.
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Gospel and rhythm and blues legend Mavis Staples is the headliner for this year's Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park.
Thousands of anti-NATO activists were staging a rally outside McCormick Place during the NATO summit Sunday afternoon, after marching from Grant Park.
About 40,000 people took a walk on the lakefront on Sunday, for the 21st Annual Y-Me "Race At Your Pace," a 5K to support breast cancer patients.
Is the city of Chicago double-crossing demonstrators planning protests during the weekend of the NATO summit? That's what protest organizers are charging, claiming the city is going back on its word on where and how two big marches will conclude.
After learning their protest rally could be much larger than originally anticipated, city officials have told National Nurses United that they must change the route of their march to avoid the Loop.
Protests and concerns about unrest have dominated talk about the NATO Summit, but the event could also bring some free music and festivity to Chicago.
Attendees at this year's Taste of Chicago can eat like a king or queen--if they're willing to pay more for it.
Now that spring is here, the Occupy Chicago protesters are back. Several hundred people participated in a Saturday march through downtown streets that ended in Grant Park, adjacent to Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway.
Anti-war activists planning a protest rally during the NATO summit in May have reached a compromise with city officials over the route of their planned protest march on the opening day of the summit.
Protestors have lost another round in their attempts to get a permit for a march through the Loop during the NATO summit.
After listening to a full day of testimony, a city hearing officer has told anti-war protesters planning a major rally during the NATO summit in May that he will have a decision by later this week on their appeal of the city's denial of their preferred march route.
After listening to a full day of testimony, a city hearing officer has told anti-war protesters planning a major rally during the NATO summit in May that he will have a decision by later this week on their appeal of the city's denial of their preferred march route.
Whether you're looking to burn some calories or just want to catch up with the crew, here's a couple places in Chicago that should accommodate the occasional athlete.
Fans anticipating Lollapalooza 2012 in Grant Park could face sticker shock at the gate.
Which carries more weight, First Amendment rights or closing time at Chicago's parks? Attorneys for dozens of Occupy Chicago protestors arrested in Grant Park last fall want a judge to answer that question.
Drawings have been made public to transform the northernmost portion of Grant Park.
The Taste of Chicago will move to mid-July next year and will only run for five days, while the Gospel Festival will return with a new home in the Bronzeville neighborhood.
On Friday afternoon in Grant Park, the Occupy Chicago movement turns from protesting to playwright production, updating Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" for the proverbial 99 percent.
The Richard J. Daley Bicentennial Plaza in the northeast corner of Grant Park is about to get a facelift.
Hundreds of Occupy Chicago protesters took to the streets in downtown Chicago on Thursday, marching against corporate greed and economic inequality. The protesters shut down the LaSalle Street Bridge around 4 p.m. as part of their demonstration.
More than six years after the city removed the Lake Shore Drive crosswalk between Buckingham Fountain and Queen's Landing, officials are now restoring the traffic lights and pedestrian crossing.
Anti-Wall Street organizers with the Occupy Chicago movement say they're holding off on another attempt set up a permanent base at Grant Park.
The Occupy Chicago protesters are trying to strike a deal with City Hall for a permanent place to gather, but haven't gotten very far.
Three years after it generated shouting matches and power struggles in City Hall, the plan to move the Chicago Children's Museum to Grant Park has been declared dead by one official.
For the second week in a row, anti-Wall Street protesters marched through downtown, and once again, they were arrested.
