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Philanthropist Ann Lurie at her office in Chicago on March 28, 2012. (Heather Charles/baiduhai)

Ann Lurie, one of Chicago’s most prolific philanthropists, dies at 79

June 25, 2024 at 3:22 p.m.

Ann Lurie, who used her late husband's substantial estate for wide-ranging philanthropic endeavors that included the Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, has died at 79.

Headlines from Mike Royko’s columns in the Newberry Library's new exhibition "Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism," June 17, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

At the Newberry Library and on stage, the return of Mike Royko

June 19, 2024 at 8:36 a.m.

Mitchell Bisschop is the author and star in a one-man play titled “Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago” that opens here in early September at the Chopin Theatre.

From left: Major General Isaac Brock, a British soldier, Tecumseh, Captain Billy Caldwell and Commander of the Caldwell Rangers, William Caldwell. Image courtesy of the Hal Sherman family. (2014)

Column: Do you know the name Billy Caldwell? New documentary is about a Native American intertwined with Chicago’s history

June 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“The Negotiator: Billy Caldwell Documentary” will be shown Thursday at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, presented by the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.

A group photo of the BBQ Pit Boys. (BBQ Pit Boys)

It’s grill season. Learn how the BBQ Pit Boys conquered the world

June 12, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

It is that time of year and the mind turns to grills. For many, the thing to grill is ribs, but most anything will do.

Barbara and Ed Udall, of Atlanta, eat food at the newly opened Billy Goat Tavern in Wrigleyville on June 6, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Wrigleyville welcomes a new Billy Goat Tavern to the neighborhood

June 11, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat Tavern has just opened.

Singer Paul Robeson confers with accompanist Helen Thierry before singing to the delegates of the Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, April 20, 1949. (Jean-Jacques Levy/AP)

‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson

June 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

This new jazz poetry opera comes to Chicago's Hamilton Park District, remembering a towering musical talent who has been all but forgotten.

Bonnie Koloc performs at the Earl of Old Town in 1969. (Charles Osgood/for the baiduhai)

Column: Bonnie Koloc is back in Chicago at the Hideout, her music still with healing powers

May 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The folk singer was part of an era of Chicago music. She'll also have a show of her artwork at Dime Chicago.

Karen Conti attorney and author of the book “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy” photographed in Chicago, May 23, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

In ‘Killing Time,’ an attorney confronts her time with John Wayne Gacy

May 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

That is how Karen Conti recalls her first encounter with Gacy. It was October 1993 and he was locked on death row in the Menard Correctional Center in downstate Chester,...

A Maxwell Street vendor tries to entice late Christmas shoppers with ornaments and dolls on Dec. 24, 1944. (Swain Scalf/baiduhai)

Column: Is it possible to recapture the manic magic of Maxwell Street? The market returns to its original home this summer

May 22, 2024 at 3:23 p.m.

This new move will offer a marketplace on the last Sundays of every month from this Sunday into October (the August market will take place on Sept. 1).

Artist Hana Bleue Chaussette with her portrait of Terry Abrahamson on a bus shelter in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood on May 9, 2024. It is part of her “Unsung Heroes of Uptown: Art of People ON the Streets IN the Streets” series. Abrahamson who wrote Grammy Award-winning song, “Bus Driver” with Muddy Waters. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Inspired by Studs Terkel, a Chicago artist celebrates Uptown heroes on bus shelters

May 15, 2024 at 11:03 a.m.

Hana Bleue Chaussette's new public art exhibition is called “Unsung Heroes of Uptown" and is for everyone to see and enjoy this summer.

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