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Ira Antelis, a local musician, commercial maker and Grammy winner who has created a virtual, song-filled memorial called "We Have Loved" as a way to honor the victims of COVID-19 and conducts a daily national "moment of silence," on January 20, 2021.

Chicago composer’s We Have Loved memorial lets us remember those lost to COVID-19 with words and music

January 28, 2021 at 9:06 a.m.

Every day at noon, death visits Ira Antelis. He welcomes it because, in a very real if virtual sense, he's the one who invited death into his otherwise happy, successful...

Novels written by author Richard Himmel at his son John Himmel's home in the River North neighborhood on Jan. 18, 2021.

Richard Himmel’s pulp noir books are back in print — hardboiled words from a famous Chicago interior designer

January 20, 2021 at 7:55 a.m.

The University of Chicago has produced many great writers. Saul Bellow, of course, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such bestsellers as "Humboldt's Gift," "Herzog," and "The Adventures of Augie March,"...

Rich Cohen wrote ‘Pee Wees’ about the world of youth hockey: Cold steel on ice and nutty parents in the stands

January 18, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

"Everything is copy" was a phrase used by the family of writer/moviemaker Nora Ephron. It became the title of a fine documentary about Ephron, who died in 2012. It means...

Jim Tilmon, retired WMAQ-Ch. 5 weatherman and airline pilot, dies at 86 in Arizona

January 18, 2021 at 12:46 p.m.

In television newscasts often characterized by frivolity and peppered with "happy talk" between colleagues on the news and sports desks, weather forecaster Jim Tilmon was a dignified, straightforward and reassuring...

Pedestrians walk past an art installation on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive south of McCormick Place in Chicago in Feb. 2013.

‘King Blvd’ short film is about a young man’s MLK odyssey

January 13, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

As many of you know and fewer of you might remember, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis....

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leaves court Oct. 25, 1960, after being given a four-month sentence in Decatur, Ga., for taking part in a lunch counter sit-in at Rich's Department Store.

‘Nine Days’ is about the dangerous day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first went to jail and the men who got him out

January 13, 2021 at 8:17 a.m.

Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day that offers such touching observances as discounts offered on clothing, cars, mattresses and other items. If you are of a...

Trailblazing sportscaster Jeannie Morris appears at the Union League Club in Chicago in 2014.

Jeannie Morris, Chicago author and pioneering sports broadcaster, dead at 85

January 4, 2021 at 3:05 p.m.

If you are curious what it was like to be a female sports reporter in the earliest days of female sports reporters, let's travel back to a sunny afternoon in...

Chadwick Boseman in a scene from "Black Panther."

Who and what we lost in 2020: From notable artists to Chicago experiences, they’re gone or changed but not forgotten

December 13, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

It feels like we lost the world this year, or at least a large part of it, doesn't it? But I will not offer any personal thoughts about this most...

La especialista en discapacidades del aprendizaje Karen Wadden Mueller trabaja virtualmente con un estudiante de 57 años llamado Andre mientras aprende a leer el jueves 12 de noviembre de 2020 en Chicago. Andre comenzó a trabajar con Mueller en marzo pasado.

A los 57 años, su sueño es poder leer un libro antes de morir

December 9, 2020 at 12:49 p.m.

Pese a todas sus privaciones y frustraciones, estos días y noches encerrados han dado a algunas personas el tiempo y la oportunidad de cumplir sus sueños y deseos. Conozco a...

Karen Wadden Mueller, a learning disabilities specialist, works virtually with a 57-year-old student named Andre as he learns to read on Nov. 12, 2020, in Chicago.

Meet a 57-year-old man with a dream: ‘I want to be able to read a book before I die’

December 4, 2020 at 11:21 a.m.

For all their deprivations and frustrations, these locked-down days and nights have given some people the time and opportunity to fulfill their dreams and desires. I know a woman who...

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