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.

As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

The holidays bring joy, but for many, they also bring up difficult emotions. Walker Hayes wrote a song about how he's still ...

Alan Jackson writes a lot of his own music. Ever since his freshman Here In The Real World album, out in 1989, Jackson has proven his ability to write songs. Not all of them are true to his own life.

Jackson wrote “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)” by himself. The song says in part, “I’m just a singer of simple songs / I’m not a real political man / I watch CNN, but I’m not sure I ...

Finally Over It follows its predecessors to a chart-topping result. By Trevor Anderson Summer Walker overcomes the competition on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as her third full-length ...

"Especially if I try to sing along to it and I really focus in on the lyrics, it's kinda like that song 'Landslide.'" he says. "It's just about passing the time and how everyone's just heading in one ...

Happiness has become a big deal in the past decade. Hundreds of books, lectures at Harvard and millions of media sound bites ...

The Auschwitz museum has introduced a new permanent exhibition showcasing items from the concentration camp. These include ...

Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed ...

Cartoons are a staple of childhood, and plenty of musicians have kept their inner-kids alive by making music for animated shows that find their way into family living rooms (and, since it hasn't ...

Sometimes it felt as if music in 2025 was never really going to start. For the whole first half of the year, the same songs created an immovable roadblock at the top of the charts—Kendrick Lamar and ...