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Chicago artist Ariel Sinha holds an official WNBA basketball she designed in collaboration with Wilson and the WNBA for the WNBA All Star Game in her studio on Aug. 15, 2022.

To see artwork by Chicago artist Ariel Sinha, look no further than this WNBA ball

August 17, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago artist Ariel Sinha has a WNBA basketball in her hands. The vinyl decal images on the ball, images that she created, depict women playing hoops in front of red...

Carol Lange poses for a portrait in the Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center on May 31, 2022, in Palatine. Lange's relative, Guy Andersen, is one of the people in a new book by author Robert Fieseler called "Tinderbox, the Untold Story of the Upstairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation."

A gay actor from Palatine died in the UpStairs Lounge arson fire in 1973 — a Pride Month project hopes to ensure he’s not forgotten

June 13, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center is a jewel in the landscape of suburban Palatine. Accented by a brick exterior and set in a quiet midcentury neighborhood, the theater dates...

The Night Disco Died

July 2, 2026 at 4:35 p.m.

Thirty-seven years ago this month, a radio station promotion gone bad forced the White Sox to forfeit a game and became part of baseball lore. An oral history of Disco...

Christine Keller dresses up as the Cheshire Cat during the Walker Art Center's Internet Cat Video Festival at CHS Field in St. Paul, Minn.

St. Paul neighborhood shows off its new diamond

August 23, 2019 at 1:05 p.m.

Baseball Hall of Fame member Bill Veeck loved the colorful sight of a full stadium. His son Mike Veeck is making that a year-round vision at the new CHS Field...

Exhibit shows the rock-country collaboration that made Nashville cool

August 23, 2019 at 12:33 p.m.

A vacation trip to see the World's Fair in New York changed the orbit of popular music in Nashville. In August 1965, Nashville session player Charlie McCoy was in New...

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