Jeff Lyon

The idea was to create a theater district along the lines of London's or New York's, but being Chicago, we had to do it in our own unique manner ("Can...

What is this world coming to? I am an avid basketball fan and I cannot call someone who misses two crucial free throws at the end of the game very...

In the end, a simple fall did him in. For 50 years, Emmet R . "Bob" Blake of the Field Museum of Natural History lived on the edge, as at...

The presidential voting of Nov. 6, 1860, was a watershed in American history, with the election of Abraham Lincoln all but guaranteeing that the South would break from the Union....

Talking turkey As you prepare your Thanksgiving turkey this week, consider the obstacles that had to be overcome to get that noble bird to your table. No, this isn't a...

Maybe it has happened to you this summer. You're at O'Hare International Airport or walking on Michigan Avenue and you become aware of someone on the fringe of your vision....

". . . It was hard to believe," the writer recalled, "that the police would actually attack this tranquil assembly which so resembled a Presbyterian prayer meeting rather than any...

Although the Illinois Lottery notched a sizable $101 million gain in sales last year, it still lags well behind the lotteries of many other states, including not only those of...

Maybe you've noticed it, the unnerving increase in the number of ambulances "running hot" on Chicago-area streets. It seems like every few minutes you're pulling over to let an ambulance...

Fundamentalist ears might go up when we report this, but John Dominic Crossan, the controversial Jesus scholar who disputes the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, and other supernatural events ascribed to...