- April 26: The Philadelphia Zoo announces that three of its African elephants will be moved to Pittsburgh Zoo's International Conservation Center. (Pittsburgh Business Times)
- April 19: Activist Marie Hicks, who led efforts to desegregate Girard College in the 1960s, dies. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- April 17: The jazz club Zanzibar Blue announces that it will close its Bellevue location on April 29. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- April 13: A Commonwealth Court rules that mayoral candidate Bob Brady should not be kept off the primary ballot for not revealing all of his income on his financial-interests statement. (AP)
- April 11: Thomas Jefferson University announces it has sold Thomas Eakins painting, Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
