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Long before movies and screens, Chicago went nuts for something called cycloramas

October 20, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.

If you neglected to celebrate or commemorate the recent hoopla surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, I am here to steer you to one element worth your...

‘Exposure’ by Holly Morris tells the remarkable story of an all-women trek to the North Pole

October 25, 2021 at 12:32 p.m.

There was a recent memorial service for the pioneering broadcaster, bestselling author and filmmaker Jeannie Morris, who died in December 2020. She was 85 and the gathering on Oct. 3...

Pete Keller (center) shows off the new headquarters of ULON (United Legion, One Nation) on East 87th Street in Chicago. With him are Journey Edwards (from left), her mother Shanee Edwards, and interns Devin Swint, Piere Ware and DeWayne Reese.

With new funding in place, there’s the beginnings of an ULON miracle on 87th Street

October 7, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

A stretch of 87th Street courses through the Avalon Park neighborhood and on the northwest corner at Cregier Street there is a building that houses a new business that is...

After a horror-filled night, a boatload of Titanic survivors pulls alongside the liner Carpathia on April 15, 1912. They were among the 600 of the 2,200 on board the sinking Titanic who got into or were pushed into the too-few lifeboats. Another 100 were plucked from the icy water. The rest died, some after heroic refusal to get into the boats.

The Titanic and its tales of life and death won’t go away — a new book by a Chicago author ‘breaks up the myths’

October 5, 2021 at 8:17 a.m.

Some disasters never die. This should not come as news to those of you who have been reading the many words the Tribune has been giving you about the Great...

MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners announced for 2021, including film scholar Jacqueline Stewart from U Chicago

September 28, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.

I am sorry that your name is not on the accompanying list, which is a gathering of the 25 members of this year's class of MacArthur Fellows. It is, as...

Garbed as Catherine and Patrick O'Leary, John Baldwin and Charles O'Connell beat a fast retreat from a burning shed during a reenactment on Oct. 9, 1958, of the De Koven Street blaze that started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Catherine O'Leary and her cow were officially exonerated by the city of Chicago in 1997.

Flashback: From floats and fireworks to a fake skyline in flames, here’s how Chicago has marked past anniversaries of the Great Fire

September 24, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

It is ever a challenge determining how to mark a notable historical event. Solemnly commemorate? Loudly celebrate? In the 150 years since the Great Chicago Fire took place on Oct....

Attorney Ron Miller speaks during a monthly meeting in Chicago in 2019. At right is author and guest Alex Kotlowitz.

Remembering Chicago attorney Ron Miller, who hosted decades of lively conversations with movers and shakers — including Obama

September 23, 2021 at 10:07 a.m.

To have lunch with attorney Ron Miller was to experience, through his stories, anecdotes and attitude, a life well and enthusiastically lived. A high-profile lawyer in Chicago for more than...

Mike Houlihan, founder of the Irish American Movie Hooley, running Sept. 24-26 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, at the Emerald Loop tavern in Chicago.

The founder gets a starring role in his own Irish American Film Festival this weekend

September 23, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

When Mike Houlihan, that local whirlwind of creative energy as writer, actor and radio host, started the first Irish-American film festival years ago, he did so in part to find...

The life and times of inspirational and pioneering Allison Payne, former WGN news anchor

September 20, 2021 at 4:22 p.m.

Allison Payne had not visited Chicago-area homes for more than a decade, but she was such a striking, substantive and memorable television presence that her Sept. 1 death in Detroit...

Comedic writer and director David Steinberg, creator of the show "Inside Comedy," in his Los Angles area home in 2013.

‘Inside Comedy’ book by Second City alum is like a ‘comedy museum,’ with revelations about Smothers Brothers, Wanda Sykes and Richard Pryor

September 20, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Think of your favorite comic and your mind will likely not conjure the image of David Steinberg. There are many lists that exist ranking the "greatest" comedians of all time....

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