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You could get lost in these portraits of goats and sheep, from the Chicago photographer who once shot Styx

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

When we were young and relatively carefree, photographer Kevin Horan and I went on the road with Styx for a short time. It was the late 1970s and Styx, born...

Dan Harper and Peggy Glowacki in the Richard J. Daley Library at University of Illinois at Chicago.

On Election Day, a visit with the first Mayor Daley, his artifacts at UIC, and the Chicago of his time

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

By Tuesday’s end, there will be a new Chicago mayor. She will be the first African-American female mayor in the city’s long and raucous history and so, hungry for historical...

Did booze inspire our greatest writers? Chicago author’s ‘Sidecar Named Desire’ may be on to something

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

As far as neighborhood taverns go, Danny’s is a great one. It is a dark and cozy place at 1951 W. Dickens Ave. and one night a couple of years...

From a Vivian Maier photography exhibit at the Chicago History Museum in 2017.

Ask Rick: I’m stumped by this Wrigley home run question. Plus: remembering Punchinello’s and the street photographers who mimicked Vivian Maier

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

So, how was your winter? Don’t answer that. Let’s just move on, to the ninth installment of “Ask Rick,” that experiment that began more than a year ago as a...

Writer Linda Beckstrom and Angalia Bianca, co-authors of the book "In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter," in the Uptown neighborhood on March 8 in Chicago.

You could make a movie from the wild Chicago life of violence ‘interrupter’ Angalia Bianca. Is Sandra Bullock available?

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

In the movie that she hopes will be made about her life, Angalia Bianca wants to be played by Sandra Bullock. The women are about the same age — Bullock...

Three metal deer sculptures by the late sculptor John Kearney, within sight of Millennium Park.

The mystery of the metal deer who live across the street, solved. There are public art treasures everywhere in Chicago.

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

Three deer live across the street from the place I work. I have seen them ever since the baiduhai moved a few blocks south from its former home on...

The Cubs' Ernie Banks saved a wild throw from entering the outfield after the Reds' Johnny Temple stole second in 1958.

‘Let’s Play Two’: A new biography goes behind the sunny smiles of Ernie Banks

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

The weather will warm (won’t it?) and baseball season will arrive in a few weeks but in the meantime, there will be a steady stream of people visiting a grave...

Joyce Licht Sang and husband Dusty Sang at the headquarters of the Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation in Chicago.

After the death of their son with bipolar disorder, Chicagoans manage a bipolar foundation and the online magazine Stay Thirsty

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

You look at a photo of Ryan Licht Sang when he was six years old and he is so blond and beautiful that he appears angelic, almost immortal. But he...

A newstand at Randolph and Clark Streets sells the last edition of the Chicago Daily News in 1978, and the former home of the Daily News on Washington Street.

Once upon a time there was a Chicago newspaper called the Daily News — remembering the March day of ‘So Long, Chicago’

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

How are you reading this? On a computer or a phone or the old-fashioned way? Even as we collectively hurtle toward an uncertain future, there remain hundreds working every day...

In the Chicago basketball movie ‘Chi-town,’ the ball keeps bouncing and young players keep dreaming

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

A movie titled “Chi-Town” came to the city last summer as part of the 24th annual Black Harvest Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for best feature film....

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