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Almost 35 independent music venues in the Chicagoland area are hoping to get a financial boost from the federal government.    For the past four months, Chicago Independent Venue League has been lobbying Congress to support the Save our Stages Act, a bill that would provide six months of financial support for struggling venues. The bill was introduced on...

More than 58,000 people in Los Angeles County are spending Christmas on the street, with no roof over their heads, but one local artist is doing his part to brighten the day for those thousands of people in need.

NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo visits Simply Local in North Park, a small business taking part in Small Business Saturday, a day to shop at local stores and support the local economy.

By luck of the draw, incumbent Republican David Yancey won a Virginia state House of Delegates race so close that its outcome was determined Thursday when an elections official pulled his name out of a ceramic bowl.

One D.C. artist is gaining a strong following on social media after projecting pictures, phrases and hashtags in protest of President Trump and other powerful Republicans onto buildings in the nation’s capital.

After the big unveiling of Pitchfork’s 2017 headliners, the Chicago festival has announced its full summer lineup.

Pitchfork announced its 2017 summer headliners and they did it in the best (and maybe the slowest) way possible.

Need a cute and quirky reminder of Illinois’ long history of political corruption? A Chicago-based artist has crafted a new cross-stitch pattern that commemorates the state’s unscrupulous former governors.

So who’s the prankster who altered the famed Hollywood sign on New Year’s morning to make it read “Hollyweed?”

They are the land mines of the sea, killing long after being forgotten. Abandoned or lost fishing gear, including traps, crab pots and nets, litter the ocean floor in coastal areas around the world. Many continue to attract, entrap and kill fish and other marine life in what’s called “ghost fishing.” Groups, governments and companies around the world are engaged...

A 33-year-old Gaza man says he has been duped into selling a valuable work by British graffiti artist Banksy for less than $200.