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Editor Bernard "Bernie" Judge in the Tribune Tower newsroom in the 1970s.

Bernard Judge, esteemed reporter and editor who influenced a generation of journalists, dies

June 14, 2019 at 5:46 p.m.

So passionate about and devoted to news was Bernard Judge that it was not hard to believe that ink flowed through his veins. An esteemed reporter and editor, Judge was...

Who could play the flamboyant car maker in ‘Framing John DeLorean?’ How about Alec Baldwin

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

Sick of seeing Alec Baldwin do his Donald Trump thing on "Saturday Night Live"? So is he, recently telling USA Today, "I'm so done with that." He is on to...

Roundtable host Ron Miller introduces guest speaker Alex Kotlowitz, author of "There Are No Children Here" and other books, at a recent, 200th meeting of the Public Affairs Roundtable in Chicago.

Chicago roundtable lets Big Ideas be shared the old-fashioned way, face to face

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

High above this sometimes savage city, in a conference room of the law firm of Miller Shakman & Beem on LaSalle Street, the view east is of skyscrapers and the...

Bill Murray sounds off on what it means to be a caddie in new movie ‘Loopers’

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

There is a new Bill Murray movie and, since you probably are not hearing about it until now, it is called "Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk." He does not have...

Nestor Gomez listens to a story at a Moth storytelling event at the Lagunitas Brewing Company Taproom in Chicago on May 13.

Nestor Gomez from Guatemala is a local legend of Moth storytelling — though he chickened out of his first reading

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

To fully understand the life of Nestor Gomez in all its complexities, pains and triumphs, it is necessary to listen to him speak, which you are now able to do...

Robert J. Herguth started on Chicago's newspaper scene at the Daily News in the mid-1950s.

Robert J. Herguth, pun-loving columnist for Daily News and Sun-Times, dies at 93

May 28, 2019 at 3:26 p.m.

In an era when newsrooms were often shadowed by sarcasm and cynicism, Robert J. Herguth was a genial gentleman. As reporter, feature writer and columnist for both the Chicago Daily...

Jenny Bienemann, center, performs during a book and CD release concert at Fitzgerald's May 16 in Berwyn.

Can you write a photo into a haiku into a song? Singer’s ‘Haiku Milieu’ says yes

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

One of the glorious things about the Berwyn music club FitzGerald's is that when you walk in the door you never know what you might hear on stage. One night...

Georgie Anne Geyer, a former foreign corresponden and columnist, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago on Nov. 15, 2017.

Georgie Anne Geyer, trailblazing foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist, dies

May 16, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

In an era when a woman in a newsroom was, as her friend Mike Royko once put it, "as rare as a teetotaler," Georgie Anne Geyer not only made her...

Howard Stern speaks to the media in New York in 2012 about his role on "America's Got Talent." His new book is "Howard Stern Comes Again."

Howard Stern talks about life, death, Donald Trump — and why he can’t stand his old narcissism

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

Howard Stern speaks, which comes as no surprise to the millions of people who listen to him, and last weekend he was speaking to me, saying, "Twenty years ago I...

How can a marriage of Judaism and Catholicism work? Chicago documentary ‘Leaps of Faiths’ shows the way

July 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

Had I been born decades later than I was and had parents who practiced the faiths in which they had been raised, I might have been among the participants of...

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