Megyn Kelly on her Chicago days, NBC mornings and Oprah ambitions
Megyn Kelly was hanging around Chicago again Wednesday, but this time it wasn't at the Hangge-Uppe off of Rush Street, where she said she used to spend a lot of...
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P*hat founder asks knitters to make ‘Welcome Blankets’ for immigrants
The last time Jayna Zweiman developed a crowdsourced knitting project, tens of thousands of women ended up wearing pink triangular hats as they marched on Washington and scores of newspaper...
Dragon, roar! 5 thoughts on Episode 4 of ‘Game of Thrones’
From the time they were just a gleam in their mother's eyes, and a souvenir in her saddlebags, the dragons of Daenerys Targaryen have been a little bit like our...
Bill FitzGerald selling namesake Berwyn nightclub after nearly 4-decade run
When Bill FitzGerald started going to the music venue that became FitzGerald's, there were deer heads and velour on the walls and Herb Alpert and classic country on the jukebox,...
Chicago Botanic Garden exhibit brings a little bit of Rio to Glencoe
At long last, there is Marxism on Chicago's North Shore. But before you get all excited about a redistribution of the region's not inconsiderable wealth, understand that the Marx in...
Game of Thrones: 5 thoughts on Episode 3
It would have been too easy, I suppose, for Daenerys Targaryen to come over to Westeros, win victory after victory and consolidate power. But what happened to her plans this...
George Rabb, influential former Brookfield Zoo director, dies at 87
Despite running Brookfield Zoo, one of the Chicago area's top tourist attractions, for decades and even living in a house on zoo grounds, George Rabb was probably better known in...
‘Wait Wait’ returns to Millennium Park for free show
Peter Sagal thinks it's kind of funny, this idea that, come Thursday night, he and "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" will be performing in front of a likely rock-star-sized crowd...
‘Daily Show’ coming to Chicago this fall
"The Daily Show" is coming to Chicago's Athenaeum Theatre for a week of shows in October, Comedy Central announced Tuesday. "'The Daily Show' Undesked Chicago 2017: Let's Do This Before...
Time for Plan B? 5 thoughts on Episode 2 of ‘Game of Thrones’
So things were going well there for the good guys for, what, a whole two-thirds of an episode? A plan was in place to begin to bring the realm together...