CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Park District is administering swim skills to aspiring lifeguard candidates on Saturday. Lifeguard candidates are required to successfully complete a 200-yard timed swim, ...

The screenings will take place at parks in communities where residents have some of Chicago's lowest life expectancies.

Registration is now open for Polar Plunge Chicago, benefiting Special Olympics Illinois, presented by Special Children's ...

While driving with friends to watch a basketball game in Washington Park in 1979, Caroline O’Boyle (Communication ’82) was ...

Despite a ban from Park District work after he was asked to resign from a top post there for his involvement in the agency’s sexual abuse lifeguard scandal, a longtime government employee has again ...

After the executive director of the Wilmette Park District resigned in early January following the Wilmette Board of Park ...

An apartment on the second floor of a 6-unit condominium building was seriously damaged by fire Saturday in Orland Park.

It’s the latest development in a lengthy battle over the future of a 45-acre disposal site on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

As are photographs with the powerful and famous. Kelly, 100, former Democratic Party slate-maker and czar of the Chicago Park District, in that order, has much to be proud of. Readers might recall ...

Chicago Park District facilities, City Colleges, and 21 senior centers. The city's 22 police stations also serve as warming centers. It was also announced on Sunday that the Skokie, Maywood ...

The Chicago Park District, Chicago Department of Transportation and the Chicago Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — the agencies leading the project — have claimed the current ...