Charles Leroux

What is the significance of 1066? Sure, that was the year of the Battle of Hastings, which determined who sat on the British throne, but of more importance to Chicagoans...

Q. Recently there have been TV, radio and newspaper ads for something called the Fifth Third Bank. What's up with that name? A. We, too, have noticed those ads for...

If you've ever ordered furniture and it wasn't delivered when it was supposed to be, the City of Chicago can sympathize. The city's summer public art exhibit, "Suite Home Chicago,"...

What could be more Chicago than smelts in April? A few years ago, the Chicago Park District saw fit to commemorate these silver-sided visitors to our shore with a poster...

Devon Avenue between Western and California Avenues is a half-mile stretch of New Delhi or Bombay transported to Chicago's North Side. The seductive scents of cardamom and tamarind waft out...

The Cold War has ended but the melody lingers on. The Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble, created in 1977 to entertain the Soviet Union's military, has become...

There were more than 5,000 of them, but, for the most part, historians ignored their contribution. They were the black patriots of the Revolutionary War, men and women who fought...

A golf tournament in Chicago -- in February?! Indeed, as a continuation of the long and celebrated association of golf and Scotch whiskey, the Glenlivit distilling company is sponsoring an...

This year, the grasp of our gaze could be as far afield as the face of Mars or the tail of the comet Hale-Bopp, as close to home as the...

On Saturday, the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum will stage a Winter Sunfest - a celebration of the shift of the sun's movement northward. This event, signaling that more daylight...