Mike Conklin

For a magazine that spawned dozens of imitators as it both chronicled and set a standard for sexual change in America, Playboy got off to a jittery start. Hugh Hefner...

Evergreen Plaza in the southern suburbs opened in 1952. Old Orchard in the northern suburbs dates from 1956. Compared with Market Square in Lake Forest, both are newcomers. Four decades...

He wasn't sure whether he could squeeze in visits to all his old haunts, but John Q. Kelly, lead attorney for Nicole Brown Simpson's family in the successful O.J. Simpson...

How we gonna keep Richard Daley "down on the farm" after he's seen Paree? - The mayor got an up-close-and-personal look at Paris' famed subway system on his trip, but...

On Sunday, Charlie Sheen was in Australia. On Monday, he was in L.A. and San Antonio. On Tuesday, it was Dallas and Minneapolis. On Wednesday, he landed in Chicago for...

The latest federal government breakdown hit the U.S. attorney's office here hard. Communications director Randall Samborn has been furloughed--unlike the last shutdown. One employee, on medical leave for surgery, was...

She got her performance art start at Lower Links Cabaret and Kaboom! This week, Chicago native Toni Schlesinger brings two monologues-"James Bond's Old Girl Friends" and "Blast of Luigi"-to Watermark...

As the Sun-Times' noon Monday strike deadline nears, the newspaper's regular free-lance contributors have been put on alert in a letter from editor Dennis Britton. In addition to saying they...

Woodstock had more headaches than weather, freeloaders and contraband drugs and alcohol. There was this most common, nagging annoyance of the '90s: parking. An estimated 10,000 vehicles-drivers armed with passes...