With tariffs set to rise exponentially for U.S. businesses that import, many shipments may be stranded at ports by cash-strapped owners.

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The National Public Housing Museum opened April 4 in Chicago, with installations and exhibits as well as intimate individual, family, and community stories of living in public housing.

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A taxpayer-funded homeless shelter owned by the state of Illinois has some Chicagoans up in arms. Kenwood and Hyde Park ...

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Elizabeth Shackelford is senior policy director at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She was previously a ...