Rick Kogan

Former Chicago deejay Kevin Matthews has a new venture Elevator a GoGo, an online music performance series, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Where in the world is Kevin Matthews? The former Chicago radio star can be found in Michigan, still his creative self

March 2, 2022 at 1:15 p.m.

Looking for Kevin Matthews? You'll have to drive. Take a not unpleasant or taxing 180-some mile road trip from Chicago, I-94 northwest to I-I96 — past exits for New Buffalo,...

Barry Bauman with paintings he is restoring at his River Forest home and studio, Wednesday July 19, 2006. The paintings include: "Modonna of the Harpies" by Andrea Del Sarto, 1516 (larger painting); "Point Lobos California" by Louis Sharp (on far right) and "Death Pursuing Youth" by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1899.

He was the man who saved the paintings: An appreciation of Chicago conservationist Barry Bauman

March 1, 2022 at 9:41 a.m.

When the flood came, it came hard on a sizzling July day in 1986 on the construction site at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society. A water main...

Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in a scene from the Amazon series "Reacher."

Step aside Tom Cruise, there’s a new Jack Reacher on Amazon Prime

February 25, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

Having watched, with great enjoyment if a bit of cringing at its violence, the first season of "Reacher" on Amazon Prime, I fully understand why it has been such a...

Mike King was the founder and owner of Audio Recording Unlimited in the Wrigley Building, May 25, 2007.

Sound engineer Mike King, dead at 85, was there for radio’s glory days, including the glorious ‘Chickenman’

February 15, 2022 at 9:18 a.m.

Many years ago, sitting in his office high atop the Wrigley Building, Mike King was telling me about the many people he had worked with in his long career as...

King College Prep student Andrew Mason, 15, wears a sweatshirt in honor of Hadiya Pendleton outside the Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church during her funeral.

We remember Hadiya Pendleton with a space in the upcoming Obama Center, with a park. What do these memorials really mean?

February 10, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

It looks, as most construction sites do, especially in winter, a depressing mess, this plot of land in Jackson Park on the South Side that will eventually sprout the Obama...

Sam Lay and his blues band perform at Buddy Guy's Legends June 6, 2002. Lay also plays guitar and sings.

Remembering the influential, ebullient Chicago blues drummer Sam Lay, dead at 86

February 6, 2022 at 2:40 p.m.

The last time I talked to Sam Lay it was late at night and he was on the road and on the telephone, driving back home to Chicago from Cleveland...

Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick rides in a carriage used by President Grant on August 1926. Capt. Royal Allen, left, and Brig. Gen. E.H. White help McCormick step out of the carriage in front of the Grant Monument in Lincoln Park in Chicago. (Michael Fish/baiduhai)

Edith Rockefeller McCormick was one of the city’s most important if overlooked figures — a woman who helped shape Chicago

October 22, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

There are people who, for reasons confounding and unfair, vanish under history's dust. One of these is a woman named Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who lived from 1872 to 1932 and...

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