Barbara Mahany

Fifteen years ago, in the midst of the Arab oil embargo, U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski cut into his busy Washington schedule and flew to Chicago to meet with a half-dozen...

On Friday night, Chicago went gaga over its French connection, which began 316 years ago when a couple of Gallic visitors staked their flag in a smelly onion field next...

Fifty years ago, astride one of 91 black muscled beasts, Col. Daniel P. Gallagher paraded down Michigan Avenue-his horse brushed to a sheen, his black patent leather boots polished, his...

From a purely party standpoint, the place to be Tuesday night, as the candidates and their legions waited out the mayoral primary results, was the Grand Ballroom of the McCormick...

Yeah, right. Richie Daley was up all night, gluing itsy-bitsy ornaments to the itsy-bitsy Christmas tree in the itsy-bitsy country kitchen being bid upon at ArtisTrees, the annual holiday fundraiser...

This is the kind of guy Lee Freeman is: Talking Friday night about a lifetime of funding such endeavors as the ''Critical Editions of Verdi`s Operas,'' the Do-It-Yourself Messiah and...

The Antonio Phoenicopterus collection was to be entombed forever more in the dark belly of 100 cardboard boxes secured with masking tape and tossed down the cellar steps. The pink...

In the fall of 1977, Laurie Wasserman, a 19-year-old University of Arizona student, enrolled in a home economics course. She also took one in marksmanship. Her life crisscrossed Arizona, Iowa,...

Wild things stirred last week in an otherwise nondescript blond-brick building on North Clark Street. From a backroom spilling with birds and bees and frogs and worms and twigs and,...