Column: What I learned visiting a Freedom Truck, a mobile museum made for America’s 250th birthday
The Freedom Truck mobile museum program, rolling nationwide through December, amounts to six semi-trucks of Semiquincentennial pride.
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Chiseling out the Goodman’s ‘Iceboy!,’ piece by piece, bit by bit
Inside the rehearsals for the world premiere musical starring Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, directed by Marc Bruni.
The Obama center’s A-list opening, or: The art of having famous friends
Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappelle, Tom Hanks, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey all attended the opening ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center.
Why the Moonshine Store — in tiny Martinsville — was a viral restaurant before there were viral restaurants
There are days, especially in summer, when there’s a cheeseburger line at 8 a.m. at the Moonshine Store.
The radical hope of the Obama Center: Rethinking what a presidential library can be
The Obama Presidential Center is a world unto itself, a self-contained universe, a self-described space where “hope has a home.”
Column: For ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’s’ 40th anniversary, we found the real Ferris Bueller
Ed McNally, a former classmate of filmmaker John Hughes, is now an attorney. And he helped us litigate a case against “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
Summer books: Our 50 coolest books for your hottest months
What are you looking for in your summer reading? Chicago stories, books about music or celebrities, history lessons, or tawdry, trashy novels that are secretly good? Read on.
Looking for a book for America 250? Here’s what historians are reading.
From "Why Fish Don’t Exist" to "Beloved," here are the books that Chicago's experts recommend the most highly for the nation's semiquincentennial, and why.
What Dave Eggers wishes he had known when he was young and cool
With his new novel "Contrapposto," Dave Eggers writes about being young, an art student and in love with art.
David Sedaris on writing: AI doesn’t scare him but New Yorker copy editors do
David Sedaris realized he wanted to write for a living and read his stories to live audiences while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of...