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Chicago photographer Steve Schapiro is dead at 87. He captured the world with his camera, from the civil rights era to De Niro.

January 19, 2022 at 1:25 p.m.

What you would realize after spending but a few minutes in the delightful company of photographer Steve Schapiro is that he was present at some of the most important events...

Mahalia Jackson, far left, sings "We Shall Overcome" with civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, third left, Jesse Jackson, second from right, and Albert Raby, right, on Aug. 4, 1966. The event happened at 844 W. 71st Street in Chicago.

Chicago has celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — but it wasn’t always so when he was alive

January 17, 2022 at 9:01 a.m.

How are you celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday? The date of his birth in Atlanta was January 15, 1929. Taking advantage of various mattress or television sales...

Dr. Michael Lewis, former Chicago Bulls doctor during the Jordan years, is an accomplished traveller, writer and photographer.

What was a Chicago doctor from Houston doing soaked in Champagne in the Bulls locker room? Read his book.

January 14, 2022 at 11:40 a.m.

It was a phone call impossible to forget. It took place at 4:10 p.m. on August 26, 1996. Michael Lewis was on the Illinois Tollway, traveling north and 10 minutes...

"Knock On Any Door" movie poster (1949). Starring Humphrey Bogart and John Derek and adapted from the novel by Willard Motley.

Pondering immortality for Motley ‘brothers’ who weren’t really brothers. Willard and Archibald went from Englewood to artistic fame.

January 12, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

The conversation took place late at night early into this new year inside a tavern that has existed for decades and was once a lively meeting place for all sorts...

Preparing for a Friday the 13th "superstition stroll" by members of Lincoln Park Zoological Society, Dr. Lester Fisher, Lincoln Park Zoo director, holds a baby black leopard while standing under a ladder in 1963.

Former Lincoln Park Zoo director Lester Fisher dies at age 100 — a transformational leader for the zoo and its animals

December 23, 2021 at 5:41 p.m.

Those visiting Lincoln Park Zoo over the coming days — to bask in the holiday lights extravaganza and observe its remarkable gathering of animals — will also see a wreath...

A performance space at The Dancing Horses in Delavan, Wisconsin in 2007. Its "Christmas Show" this season runs through Jan. 15, 2022.

Column: Some lesser known holiday traditions, from model trains at Butch McGuire’s to dancing horses in Wisconsin

December 21, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

It is never a good thing to see people waiting in line for a tavern to open. But on Sunday morning, a crowd lined a stretch of the Division Street...

Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died at age 98 on Dec. 5, 2021.

Those we lost in 2021: Saying farewell to people, places and things gone over the course of a year — in Chicago and beyond

December 16, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

For all the hope that a holiday season brings, it also delivers the jolt of remembering the places and people and things that have vanished over the previous year. As...

Appreciation: Famous for playing Scrooge, Bill Norris, dead at 75, was one of the city’s greatest and most versatile actors

December 14, 2021 at 5:15 a.m.

Admired and adored for playing one of theater's great curmudgeons, aka Ebenezer Scrooge in what has become a popular holiday tradition, the Goodman Theatre's "A Christmas Carol," William J. Norris...

Developer Tyler Nevius, left, and chef Kevin Hickey outside the Ramova Theater in Bridgeport on March 16, 2021. The two plan to renovate and revive the space as a live music venue with dining and a tap room.

Bridgeport’s Ramova Theater is on its way back, in the midst of costly a renovation. It may once again be the center of a Chicago neighborhood.

December 1, 2021 at 10:27 a.m.

In the heart of Bridgeport a few weeks ago, I was standing near the corner of Halsted and 35th Streets when an old man approached. For a while we stood...

People braved chilly temperatures to watch the Art Institute lions get their wreaths placed around their necks to ring in the holiday season in November 2014.

From the Art Institute lions to music, some sights and sounds to put you in the holiday spirit

November 30, 2021 at 9:58 a.m.

The Art Institute lions do not have names but for a time they did have voices. The man who sculpted them, Edward Kemeys, did not want to label his bronze...

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