Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and achievements. Here are 62 people whose memories Chicago is honoring in 2025.

"I was delighted that I Have the Touch was chosen for the soundtrack of Marty Supreme," Gabriel posted on his website. "The song is rarely asked out for a dance and I have always loved table tennis.

On 1949, Blaze Foley, the underrated songwriter who influenced all your favorite mainstream songwriters, was born.

Sixty-one years ago today, the singer and songwriter who became the king of country music parodies was born in Georgia.

Stacker compiled a list of 19 of the wealthiest openly LGBTQ+ people worldwide, referencing various data and news reports.

We bid farewell this year to the little sister from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a two-time heavyweight champion, and 1995's ...

Longtime radio engineer Chuck Bullett retired in 2025. But from Maine to San Francisco, his career went far beyond ...

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to say that Mark Rusin will be the department’s youngest chief in more than half of a century. Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor-elect Sharon Owens has ...

A new CD was released this year of delightful Yiddish children’s songs, composed by the Vilna-born musician David Botwinik who died in 2022 at the age of 101. The album, Zumer iz shoyn vider do, which ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The new chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court was installed Monday morning. The Honorable Charles S. Beach II took the oath during a packed ceremony inside the Chicago-Kent ...

While I'm well aware that finished games often rest atop a mountain of cut or heavily revised work, I'm still regularly surprised by how extensively projects can change over the course of their ...

Everyone with a passing interest in games probably recognizes the green man that usually reps Xbox and Halo - for a time, in the Xbox 360 era, he was almost as ever present as Mario. But before Master ...