Rick Kogan

Women from the Lorelei Swim Club at Northwestern University are, from left, Dolly Ross, Nancy Egner, Judy Allen, Ginny Hetz, Sheri Nikazy and Jo Anne West at the season opening of the Edgewater Beach Hotel pool, April 28, 1955. The Lorelei Swim Club was a synchronized swim team at the university.

Return with us now to the glory and celebrity of Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel

August 4, 2021 at 9:53 a.m.

My parents, who had a loving if occasionally tempestuous relationship for more than 40 years, would often get wistfully romantic telling me stories about their courting days and nights. One...

Latest Chicago Quarterly Review focuses on Black literature, with many ‘gifts of imagination’

August 4, 2021 at 2:05 p.m.

I was a lucky kid, in part because my father wrote books and was the book editor at the Sun-Times and thus had a lot of friends who were writers...

Jackie Mason, here in 2002 at Zanies comedy club in Chicago, has died at age 93.

Gone but hardly forgotten: Encounters with comic Jackie Mason in Chicago

July 30, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

And so, the comic Jackie Mason was saying, in that unforgettably distinctive pure Lower East Side New York accent (thick, nasal) of his, "And so, I may be thinking why...

Writer June Sawyers outside the Art Institute of Chicago. Sawyers has created a theater work based on Edward Hopper's famous painting "Nighthawks," which hangs inside the museum.

New play will bring Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks,’ one of Art Institute’s most popular paintings, to theatrical life

July 27, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

A little boy was trying energetically to climb atop one of the two lions that have long "guarded" the Art Institute as people poured through the doors on Saturday, becoming...

Story of serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream takes you on a grand, gruesome, historical journey, with his time in Chicago

July 28, 2021 at 2:19 p.m.

Chicago has long been a hospitable clime for those with murder on their minds. Our city's history is punctuated by the names and dirty deeds of men who haunt our...

Anthony Bourdain in Morgan Neville's documentary "Roadrunner."

In memoriam: I first met Illinois Holocaust Museum’s wise leader Fritzie Fritzshall by knocking on a simple little door in Skokie

May 22, 2026 at 7:57 p.m.

When you get old, you are inclined to approach a new day with trepidation. And so, it was on Monday, when I opened the Tribune, and learned of the death...

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Return with us now to the glory and celebrity of Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel

Latest Chicago Quarterly Review focuses on Black literature, with many ‘gifts of imagination’

Gone but hardly forgotten: Encounters with comic Jackie Mason in Chicago

New play will bring Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks,’ one of Art Institute’s most popular paintings, to theatrical life

Story of serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream takes you on a grand, gruesome, historical journey, with his time in Chicago

Commentary: Where is Chicago in the new documentary of Anthony Bourdain’s life and death?

Este chofer ha visto cosas y podría contarte historias: ‘Your Driver Has Arrived’, de Néstor Gómez

Chicago ride-share driver has seen some stuff and could tell you stories: ‘Your Driver Has Arrived’ by Nestor Gomez

Remembering Dianne Durham, the gymnast from Gary who just missed her shot at Olympic medals in 1984

In memoriam: I first met Illinois Holocaust Museum’s wise leader Fritzie Fritzshall by knocking on a simple little door in Skokie