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Chicago’s one-and-only Harold Washington will return in documentary ‘Punch 9’

August 29, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

"You want Harold? Well, here's Harold!" And so, there he was, in the flesh. The complex, inimitable and charismatic Harold Washington was this city's most towering figure from his election...

Brave book ‘Chicagohoodz’ offers an illustrated history, of sorts, of Chicago street gangs

August 26, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

James O'Connor is known as "Jinx," Damen Corrado as "Mr. C." They are not and have never been members of a Chicago street gang and yet they understand and appreciate,...

Why remember radio’s golden age? Why indeed.

August 21, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

Before Instagram, Twitter, iPods and even television, there was radio and its many voices and the antics and artfulness of its huge stable of performers formed the soundtrack of American...

Giving Fredo (aka John Cazale) the respect he deserves

August 19, 2019 at 1:08 p.m.

Barroom insults are as old as barrooms and they come in many forms. For my money the best is not the name "Fredo," recently hurled at Chris Cuomo by some...

New book ‘Ensemble’ follows the trail of Chicago’s legendary theater history, with ‘Grease’ and a young Steppenwolf along the way

August 22, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.

I was almost born in a theater, or so I was told. When I was about 10 years old, my mother informed me that she had gone into labor while...

Concert goers listen to cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, at Pritzker Pavilion Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Chicago.

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What brings people to Grant Park on a summer night? The music? The scene?

August 12, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.

Last Wednesday night, warm and enveloping as the best summer nights can be, and so you join the steady stream of people making their way into Grant Park. Some are...

Author Ytasha Womack and publisher David Dewane at the Hall Library in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Womack holding a copy of her book "A Spaceship in Bronzeville," the latest publication from Dewane's Mouse Book Club.

Mouse Book Club publishes big ideas in little books, each about the size of a smartphone

August 7, 2019 at 7:51 a.m.

There are many things to see in the Bronzeville neighborhood and one morning a few weeks ago, had you been around, you would have seen a very good and hopeful...

Dr. Jason LaHood and Kendall Alaimo discuss their podcast "Sentenced to Life," about mental health, childhood trauma and abuse.

In the podcast ‘Sentenced to Life,’ conversations from the brink of pain and suicide

August 5, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

Trauma is all around us and the last week was filled with death and its consequences. It is impossible not to feel tremendous sympathy for those gone from this world...

Karen Abbott brings George Remus to life in new book

August 1, 2019 at 2:41 p.m.

Booze will flow with meaning at a Friday party for Karen Abbott when she happily returns to this city that has provided her several fine parties in the past and...

Soapbox speaker Ellen Lee (cq) presents "A Korean Rapper's Question: Malicious Comments vs. Freedom of Speech," during the Bughouse Square Debates in Chicago's Washington Square Park on Saturday, July 27, 2019. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Maxwell Street Market and Bughouse Square: It must be summer in Chicago

July 30, 2019 at 3:05 p.m.

This city, for all its pains and troubles and inequities, can look pretty good in certain places and one of those was from the huge third-floor windows in an office...

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