New book captures 100 years of folk and country music history here in Chicago
Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
In memoriam: Newton Minow had 97 years of amazing, influential and ever-curious life
When one lives for 97 years, you can be assured that this person is filled with a mountain of memories of people, events and accomplishments, especially if fortunate enough to...
Six Loyola University students have captured the magic of Bughouse Square, the city’s oldest park
The author, radio host and life force who was Studs Terkel spent many youthful years listening to a variety of voices in the park that is the three-acre front yard...
Mayor Lightfoot loves libraries and gives the city a trio of new ones on South and West Side as parting gifts
My father and his brother, children of immigrants, grew up near Humboldt Park. When they were young and not playing in the parks, streets or the alleys of their neighborhood,...
Wendell Smith covered sports, history and civil rights and traveled with Jackie Robinson. A new book remembers his work.
Wendell Smith was 58 when he died and he was famous then. It was 1972 and the words of praise in the wake of his death came from such big...
Bobcat Goldthwait lives in the western ‘burbs now and celebrates a new album at Lincoln Lodge
The Chicago area is peppered with talented people and one of the latest to join this crowd is Robert Francis Goldthwait, tucked into a quiet and pleasant Western suburb. "I...
16-inch softball players win the fight to continue playing games at the Grant Park fields
Grant Park was born with the rather dull name of Lake Park and is informally called Chicago's "front yard." But by any name, there's not a finer urban park around...
Hometown comic Pat McGann headlines the Chicago Theatre this weekend — he made a bet on himself and won
The stand-up comic Pat McGann was in Las Vegas over the weekend. It was not the first time he has visited Las Vegas. He has been there many times over...
A sus 100 años, los Guantes de Oro de Chicago siguen moldeando boxeadores e inspirando vidas
¿Alguna vez has visto a dos hombres o dos mujeres pelear entre sí en un ring de boxeo? Quiero decir en persona y de cerca, donde puedes oler el sudor...
In ‘Out of the Loop,’ comics talk about the growing pains of stand-up comedy in Chicago
Stand-up comedy has not always been part of the entertainment landscape and to prove that point, I give you this story. One late afternoon in 1978, Rick Uchwat picked up...