Jon Anderson

A member of Chicago's pioneering McCormick family, Eleanor Morris Collier was born in the stately Near North Side home that later housed the John Carroll Sons funeral home. Her father...

According to historians, the idea of mutual-interest groups banding together to entertain themselves is as old as mankind, though some credit the invention to Mickey Rooney, the co-star (with Judy...

One woman recalls family vacation snapshots in which her husband is nuzzling up to one of the integral parts of their domestic life. It's his cell phone. He's talking business....

There is no Carl Sandburg to make poetry of its progress, no Richard J. Daley to harness its political clout, no Al Capone to make even its crime mythical. And...

Edgily, the canoers pushed off from shore, aimed downriver toward Bubbly Creek, the kind of watery abyss that is the stuff of cheap horror movies. Death, some felt, was but...

Without fanfare, the doors at the new quarters of the Field Museum of Natural History opened at 2 p.m. on this date. "Speeches and music," noted one report, "would have...

For the rich, the fact that their fortunes are public knowledge has always made security a concern. Yet popular notions that the very wealthy lead lives shielded by bodyguards, alarm...

A thoughtful poet and host, John Frederick Nims welcomed a visitor to his Lake Shore Drive apartment, offering him hot coffee--and a fresh simile. He was struck once, Nims recalled,...

For about a century, the Chicago Stockyards were one of the city's world-famous wonders, visited by princes and maharajahs and almost every tourist. "Not to see the Yards is to...

To the nation's anger therapists, the guy has got it all. Aggression. A deeply-rooted code of what is fair and unfair. A hair-trigger need to lash out at transgressors. A...