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Mancow Muller hosts his morning WLS-AM 890 radio show in NBC Tower in Chicago with a cast including co-host Jenniffer Weigel, left.

Spending an on-air morning with Mancow Muller, now an old pro of Chicago radio: ‘If I’m bored, I move on’

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

There are surely more sensible and quieter ways to spend an early morning than being on the sixth floor of the NBC Tower on the banks of the Chicago River...

Joe Kaplan sells dishes to Mrs. Freida Sawyer at Maxwell and Peoria Streets, circa April 1927.

New ‘Maxwell Street’ book has us remembering this most Chicago of places

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

There are places that stick with us through the decades even though they may no longer exist in brick and mortar, in sights and sounds and smells, and for a...

Dennis Farina in the 1980s TV series "Crime Story," filmed in Chicago and Las Vegas.

‘Crime Story’ is back on Amazon — was this the greatest Chicago TV show ever?

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

The conversation at the bar was all "Game of Thrones," that HBO television sensation now in the midst of its much-ballyhooed final season. Never having seen one second of one...

Singer Keri Johnsrud and pianist Kevin Bales perform songs from their album "Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers" at PianoForte in the South Loop.

A Chicago jazz singer recorded some songs by Fred Rogers for ‘Neighborhood’ — it has changed her career

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

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walked into the Zebra Lounge. Her name was (and remains) Keri Johnsrud. She was then working...

Al Ehrich, Bill Brickey, Deborah Lader, Lloyd Brodnax King, composer Michael Miles and John Brennan rehearse for the concert "A Pete Seeger Centennial Celebration: 100 Years of Protest" at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Lincoln Square.

Concert at the Old Town School is a tribute to Pete Seeger, and carries his lesson: ‘If there’s something wrong, speak up’

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

Carrying one of his banjos and a guitar, Michael Miles walked out of the East Moline Correctional Center, where he had just performed for 250 prisoners. He was exhausted and...

Chicago writers celebrated in new book surveying the remarkable prose found on the sports page

June 11, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Sports makes the world go round and people never tire of consuming — in many different ways, including newspapers— every stat, scandal and score coming from the wide world of...

Lost movie ‘Editor’s Notebook,’ back on the screen, was from a time the Chicago Daily News was a real newspaper’s newspaper

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

There was a time when Hollywood produced a steady stream of movies about newspapers because every city had a newspaper or two (or four) and newspapers were an essential part...

Tom Michael interacts with the audience members during a performance with Becky Menzie at Davenport's Piano Bar in Chicago April 6.

Want to hear some Beatles? Head over to Milwaukee Avenue

April 10, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

The first time I saw the Beatles, on a September night in 1964 at the International Ampitheater, I could not hear the Beatles. Even though we — my 12- year-old...

Remembering Winifred O’Reilly, dead at 94, the mother of an arts clan of 14 that has spread across Chicago and beyond

April 9, 2019 at 10:31 a.m.

Families gather for many reasons, death among the saddest and most common, and the Friday April 5 funeral of Winifred Ann O’Reilly at St. Giles Church in Oak Park was...

It’s the 20th anniversary of Columbine. A survivor of that school shooting is now a filmmaker and you can see her ‘We Are Columbine’ at the Music Box.

August 22, 2019 at 10:52 a.m.

Talking heads, those familiar and often dreary elements of documentary films, have rarely been as powerfully honest and emotionally potent as they are in a spectacular new film that takes...

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