‘Daily Show’ quits Chicago, just like all the other celebs
And so it concludes. With the final night of Trevor Noah's "Daily Show" stint from Chicago ending, we are left with — what? Is Steve Harvey still in town? Oprah?...
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Trump Twitter museum spotlights ‘Daily Show’s’ inventive satire
When it opens Friday, the Donald J. Trump Twitter Presidential Library will instantly become the funniest museum in Chicago. What other place would frame the president's famous "Covfefe" tweet in...
Pining for Obama, ‘Daily Show’ keeps it earnest on third Chicago night
Here on the Chicago desk, we are watching "The Daily Show" during its run here for the way it uses — and possibly misuses — our teeming metropolis. Let's start...
‘Ancient Mediterranean’ a thoroughly modern and jarring museum show at the Field
The title of the new Field Museum exhibition, "Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in Contact," makes it sound more important, perhaps, than exciting. Here comes, you might think, another well-curated look at...
‘The Daily Show’ rats us out on second night in Chicago
On his second night in Chicago, Trevor Noah and his "Daily Show" busted us for vermin issues, took our deep-dish pizza fetishization into a surprising place and, once again, attempted...
‘The Daily Show’ in Chicago dishes deep on the city
With his first of four "Daily Shows" from Chicago this week, Trevor Noah presented America with a more nuanced version of the Windy City than it has been seeing lately....
Chicago is Trevor Noah’s kind of town
It's been a bumpy ride for Trevor Noah. When he took over "The Daily Show" in September 2015, he was the interloper, the slick young — and let's not forget,...
Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s ‘Back to Back’ comedy tour feels more urgent with their TV show in limbo
A funny thing on happened on the way to Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher's triumphant fall comedy tour that would have been supported, in a sense, by the upcoming second...
‘Daily Show’s’ Trump Twitter museum to surface in Chicago
The "Daily Show's" Donald J. Trump Twitter Presidential Library, a hit during its brief run as a New York City pop-up earlier this year, will get a similarly brief run...
New Wonders of Wildlife aquarium and museum turns conservation knob to 11
The new Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium doesn't have just one multi-story mega-tank parading exotic fish species. There are at least three, and that's not counting...