‘He Had It Coming’ looks back on the ‘Murderess Row’ that inspired ‘Chicago’
Editor's note: The following is the prelude to the new baiduhai book "He Had It Coming," which tells the true stories of four women on "Murderess Row" in 1920s...
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The delights — large and small — of holiday lights
A slender string of tiny red lights framed the large red door of Engine Co. 98/Ambulance Co. 11 at 202 E. Chicago Ave., just a block away from the frenzy...
Do you believe in Krampus? How Chicago is partly to blame for bringing the Christmas devil to America
The song tells you that "Santa Claus is coming to town." But I am here to tell you that he's already here. There he is, standing near the checkout lines...
Not so long ago, Chicago’s tony Clark Street was down and out. A new photo book takes us back.
The Clark Street we know is not the Clark Street we knew. Like most city thoroughfares, it is an organic byway, ever-changing, remolding itself in the visions of developers and...
‘Walking Dead’ actor Xander Berkeley is also a painter, his exhibit opened here in Chicago
You may not know his name, which is Xander Berkeley, but you have seen his face because his face has been in more than 200 movies and television shows. Admittedly,...
Where’s celebrated chef Jackie Shen? She’s thriving in Michigan, running a cafe.
She goes to bed when most people are getting home from work and she wakes at 2 a.m., says goodbye to her dog and two cats and walks the dark,...
This Chicago immigration attorney wanted a picture book about immigration for her kids. So she wrote one.
Less than a mile away from the Irish American Heritage Center but more than 3,600 miles from Dublin, that ancient and lively city of her birth, Fiona McEntee was saying,...
Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ tackles the chore of writing a book: ‘The Way I Heard It’
A man celebrated for working was taking it easy, sensibly sipping a vodka on the rocks in the bowels of the Wentz Concert Hall on the campus of North Central...
Will the world watch Aaron Sorkin’s movie ‘Chicago 7’? A real juror’s daughter has an opinion.
Depending if and at what time you might have strolled past the Hilton Chicago on Michigan Avenue last Sunday, you might have seen a few police vehicles of 1960s vintage...
Artwork by bipolar artists shows great creativity in ‘Insights III’ at Zolla/Lieberman
Unable sometimes to remember what day it is but capable of vividly recalling the afternoon I graduated from high school, I would not presume to know how the human brain...