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Where to hike: Mud Lake Open Space, 2034 County Road 126, is an excellent choice. From the Mud Lake Trailhead, combine the ...

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If you’re interested in more recent history, the Calico Ghost Town Regional Park provides a well-preserved mining town from the 1880s silver rush. Located about 15 miles northeast of Barstow, Calico ...

Developers and city officials view the conversions as an opportunity to transform downtown Chicago into a full-fledged neighborhood, but it's just one way of bringing an old building back to life.

But indeed a new roller rink has been set up on a pop-up basis at that T.J. Maxx on Canal Street. It has been transformed with colorful, mesmerizing lights into the site of Chicago Skate Social's next ...

Thousands of protesters took to Chicago streets Thursday as part of nationwide and global "May Day" demonstrations.

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with ... the lines at the supercenter in the Loop are growing longer. The enforcement date is Wednesday, May 7.

Neighborhood farmers markets are back from Austin to the Loop and Lincoln Square, and the Maxwell Street Market kicks off May 18.