You can also celebrate David Bowie at the Bowie Ball, check out a new headliner at the Magic Parlour and go to a Show & Tell For Grown-Ups at the International Museum of Surgical Science.

Start the year with live music from Buddy Guy, Tomorrow Never Knows performances, Dry January experiences and winter farmers markets across Chicago.

Weather conditions will remain mostly quiet heading into the weekend, with no significant precipitation expected locally.

Originally it appeared that a low-pressure system bringing waves of showers and storms to the Chicago area would be gone by the weekend, but that’s all changed. That’s because the low-pressure system that’s caused the rainy weather in recent days has ...

In the first shooting of the weekend, Chicago police officers found a 43-year-old man near the sidewalk around 6:45 p.m. in the 1500 block of South Sawyer Avenue with a gunshot wound to the body. The victim was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition.