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Humanities Festival’s president calls it quits
Eileen R. Mackevich--the woman who helped the Chicago Humanities Festival grow from a one-day event to a multiweek extravaganza that annually attracts some of the most eminent names in the...
Old-fashioned filling station strikes gold with a movie role
"The filling station that time forgot." -- July 16 Action Oil in Jonesville, Ill., on Highway 351 between Oglesby and LaSalle is forgotten no longer. A Chicago-based film production company...
Part 3: After the storm’s fury
They picked at the pile, inch by inch, stone by stone, just in case. They thought they'd gotten to everyone who was alive, but you had to be sure. You...
After the storm’s fury
They picked at the pile, inch by inch, stone by stone, just in case. They thought they'd gotten to everyone who was alive, but you had to be sure. You...
Part 2: `Milestone’s gone!’
In the basement of Duffy's Tavern, dirt sifted between the floorboards overhead for 10 seconds. They could hear muffled booms from above, the crashes, the bangs and cracks and rattles....
‘Milestone’s gone!’
In the basement of Duffy's Tavern, dirt sifted between the floorboards overhead for 10 seconds. They could hear muffled booms from above, the crashes, the bangs and cracks and rattles....
Part 1: A wicked wind takes aim
Ten seconds. Count it: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Ten seconds was roughly how long it lasted. Nobody had a stopwatch, nothing can be proven...
A wicked wind takes aim
Ten seconds. Count it: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Ten seconds was roughly how long it lasted. Nobody had a stopwatch, nothing can be proven...
NO SEX, PLEASE, WE’RE FARMERS
Tupperware may prove instructive here. When you think of how sex and the Midwest are juxtaposed in the public imagination, think of a Tupperware container. To seal the lid, you...