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Musician Heather Lynne Horton at her Orland Park home.

The life and times, songs and influences of rock ‘n’ roller and suburban mom Heather Lynne Horton

October 10, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

With a new album and fresh from making music at a three-day event called the Opelika Songwriters Festival in Alabama, Heather Lynne Horton was home in Orland Park Sunday and...

Dick Butkus acknowledges fans before announcing the second round draft pick for the Chicago Bears during the 2015 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University May 1, 2015, in Chicago.

In the wake of Dick Butkus’ death, celebrating the man behind the image

October 7, 2023 at 9:56 a.m.

One of the first non-Native people to set foot here, in what would eventually become Chicago, was a French explorer named Robert Cavalier, sieur de la Salle, and he had...

One of the recipients of this year's "genius grant" fellowships from the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation is Rina Foygel Barber of the University of Chicago.

This year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, those so-called ‘genius grants,’ are announced

March 12, 2024 at 11:55 a.m.

There are a few professors, a couple of writers and one hydroclimatologist around the country who today feel happy, proud, financially stable and, perhaps, optimistic about their futures. That is...

"Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine," by Holly Gleason.

Celebrating the late, great musician John Prine in the new book ‘Prine on Prine’

October 3, 2023 at 10:21 a.m.

There is no question that had movie critic Roger Ebert not walked into the Fifth Peg club one night in 1970 and heard an unknown singer/songwriter named John Prine, that...

Hotshot crew leader Justine Gude takes a break from leading her all-male crew in California in the documentary "Hotshot."

The new documentary ‘Hotshot’ takes viewers to the frightening front lines of wildfires

September 27, 2023 at 2:57 p.m.

We are a fire town. Though it was long ago and there exist no photographs of the Chicago Fire of 1871, it shadows and defines our history, even as we...

Author Scott Turow at his home office in Evanston on Sept. 9, 2022.

Scott Turow to be awarded the Fuller Prize from Literary Hall of Fame

September 26, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Scott Turow famously wrote many of his books while riding the train from his home in the northern suburbs to his law offices downtown. He is now one of the...

James Hoge was the new editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, which focused on analysis and commentary of international issues, in 1992.

James Hoge Jr., former editor of Chicago’s Sun-Times and Daily News, dies at 87

September 21, 2023 at 12:47 p.m.

As dashing as a movie star and one of the giants of 20th century journalism, James Fulton Hoge Jr., died Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 87. No cause...

Dense smoke rolls from Our Lady of Angels grade school on Dec. 1, 1958, in Chicago. The fire on the city's West Side took the lives of 92 children and three nuns. It remains one of the worst tragedies in Chicago's history.

A tragic fire and other tales highlight the start of a new season of WTTW’s ‘Chicago Stories’

March 12, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

Mayor Richard J. Daley cried. We don't see this but rather are told about it in the first of the eight episodes in WTTW-Ch. 11's "Chicago Stories" season which begins...

The singer Denise La Grassa performs at the restaurant Chant on Sept. 8, 2023.

With a new sound but with the same energy and talent, Denise La Grassa is back in the music business

September 19, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

For those of you who once traveled the city nights to local clubs, theaters and various performance spaces, the name Denise La Grassa should ring a pleasant bell and perhaps...

Danielle Galligan and Éanna Hardwicke are the stars of "Lakelands," one of the fine films of the upcoming "Irish American Movie Hooley."

The Irish are coming, back with 3 fine movies for the 9th annual Irish American Movie Hooley

September 13, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

You've got to hand it to Mike Houlihan. This native South Sider, most Irish of Irish men, has been able to spend most of his life in pursuit of creativity....

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