Staff Writer Ryan Maddigan supports city council’s structure.

The Chicago metropolitan area saw a slight increase in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced domestic departures in many ...

Chicago is testing a new rat control method using birth control instead of poison. Bait boxes with rat birth control will be ...

Chicago has earned the title of "rattiest" city. But a new pilot program in a popular neighborhoods could help to break the ...

Statewide, the population has dropped 0.9% since 2020, driven mainly by losses of 2% to 5% in a number of western and southern counties. Champaign County was an exception, with a significant ...

New York City is notorious for its large population of rats, but depending on who you ask, there's one American city that has ...

Chicago was dubbed the "rattiest" city in America for the tenth consecutive year, according to Orkin. Now, there is a new approach: rat birth control.

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

The Jewish population of Chicago is at least 302,500, in contrast to official Jewish statistics crediting the city with 282,000 Jews. The Sentinel, a Chicago English-Jewish weekly, asserts in its ...

Chicago’s overall population over the same period grew by only 3.5 percent. The study comes as local Jewish federations have released or are conducting a flurry of demographic studies and the ...

Study co-author, Elise Zipkin, says Chicago could play an important role in butterfly populations in the future. "Conditions in other parts of the U.S., southern parts, may continue to get worse ...