Teatro ZinZanni was founded in Seattle in 1998. Langill said the Seattle production, which is also closing for financial reasons, staged its farewell show last week. “We just couldn’t keep making our cash flow work with substantially less numbers that we were having. So in the beginning of January, we started to look at closing,” said Langill.

Visibility in downtown Chicago was reduced as quick bursts of snow blew through the area this morning. The Windy City is currently experiencing a system dumping heavy snow on the area, causing ground stops at major airports like O'Hare International.

Hundreds faced the cold and snow in Chicago on Sunday to take part in two large protests downtown against Illinois-born ICU nurse Alex Pretti's killing by federal agents in Minneapolis.

One of the state’s top 25 basketball prospects plays his games at a park-district fieldhouse in Pilsen for a team almost no one has heard of. But Cedrick Carter, a 6-8 senior, found exactly what he and his family needed at Intrinsic-Downtown.

The building is considered a trophy, with a high occupancy rate of roughly 92 percent, compared to the downtown average of 28 percent.

The potential sale of 1 N. Wacker Drive will be closely watched by office landlords and lenders as a test of investor sentiment on trophy office buildings downtown.

It was a busy morning at the Real ID supercenter in downtown Chicago Saturday as people rushed to beat a looming federal deadline. The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office said they’re averaging about 150 people per hour at the supercenter location near Clark and Lake Streets as people scramble to get their Real ID-compliant cards before a February 1 deadline to do so.

Lurie Children’s Hospital is in the early stages of planning a new children’s hospital in the Downers Grove area, Lurie announced Wednesday. The new hospital would be the system’s first hospital with inpatient beds outside of its main facility in downtown Chicago.