Rob Manker

Remember that really big snowstorm that hit Chicago, around Groundhog Day, 2011? Oh, yes, the "Groundhog Day Blizzard." Perhaps, when recalling the dozens of abandoned vehicles that littered ghostly, snow-packed...

The Guinness Book of World Records is not what it once was. Thirty years ago, it was a pocket-size paperback front-loaded with the world's anatomical freaks: oldest, tallest, shortest, heaviest....

The Guinness Book of World Records is not what it once was. Thirty years ago, it was a pocket-size paperback front-loaded with the world's anatomical freaks: oldest, tallest, shortest, heaviest....

The news that Chicago Public Schools had reopened Wednesday was no doubt music to the ears of students, parents, teachers and administrators alike. But one teacher may have struck a...

Nearly 30 years after she walked a Chicago Teachers Union picket line as a child with her mother, Keelin Mayer is doing the same with her daughter. Mayer, an art...

A craft beer's commercial success is often built in part on the story a brewery tells about itself and its products, the names of which are usually a big part...

Justin Howard's award-winning performance of a guitar that isn't almost wasn't. When the Chicago man known onstage as "Nordic Thunder" failed to repeat as U.S. air guitar champion in Denver...

Justin Howard's award-winning performance of a guitar that isn't almost wasn't. When the Chicago man known onstage as "Nordic Thunder" failed to repeat as U.S. air guitar champion in Denver...