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Kyle Richards in "Halloween Kills," directed by David Gordon Green. We don't see a lot of Haddonfield in the movies, but enough to recognize it.

The scariest town in Illinois does not exist. But you can visit in ‘Halloween Ends.’

October 13, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist. It has never existed. It is arguably the most famous place in Illinois that is impossible to visit. But I have been there. I have...

Harry Styles at the United Center in Chicago was a night between him and his fans

October 11, 2022 at 10:58 a.m.

On the third night of Harry Styles' six-night residency in Chicago, as the British pop star, promising actor and spiritual scion of Mick Jagger took the stage, the United Center...

McDonald's is offering a way for adults to recapture some of the joy of their youth with Adult Happy Meals.

Adult Happy Meals at McDonald’s are pricy, shame-inducing boxes of nostalgia — with a creepy toy to boot

October 7, 2022 at 2:55 p.m.

Adult Happy Meal at McDonald's, known formally (and synergistically) as the Cactus Plant Flea Market Happy Meal, debuted this week to grown-up sighs of at last and finally and: So...

Some of the broken clocks and watches collected by artist Barbara Koenen on display at Design Museum of Chicago on Sept. 2, 2022. The timepieces are stopped on different times and Koenen aims to collect enough to represent every minute in the twenty-four hours of a day.

Barbara Koenen’s collection of 800 stopped clocks is at the Design Museum of Chicago. And you can add to it.

October 6, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

When Barbara Koenen describes her revelation, you picture time slowing, time stopping, time pausing on its unending march to oblivion. You imagine a young woman in Chicago struck suddenly with...

Chicagoans’ old vacation and party films get their moment on the big screen: ‘I always cry at Home Movie Day’

October 4, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

Home movies — that is, in the classic sense, personal amateur recordings, made with 8 mm, Super 8 or 16 mm celluloid film, screened in a rumpus room, as God...

Comic books illustrated by book artist Alex Ross on display at Comix Revolution in Evanston.

Alex Ross, the legendary illustrator for Marvel and DC comics, has a new ‘Fantastic Four’ book out just as the Marvel universe takes a next big step. Coincidence?

September 28, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. But what happened to good pop culture conspiracies? Like, Paul McCartney is dead. Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing. Walt Disney was frozen. Lewis...

Through the service Swimply, we rented a private, heated in-ground pool in Lake County for our family.

Swimply is like Airbnb for renting strangers’ backyard swimming pools. We tried it. Was it weird?

September 22, 2022 at 2:44 p.m.

We have grown comfortable with our so-called sharing economy. We forget that Airbnb offers us a stranger's bed for the night (or longer). Uber puts us in a stranger's car....

La gente echa un vistazo a los instrumentos de detección del clima en el stand de AEM durante la Expo Mundial de Tecnología Meteorológica el 1 de septiembre de 2022, en el Centro de Convenciones Donald E. Stephens en Rosemont, Illinois.

¿Qué piensan los meteorólogos?

September 20, 2022 at 1:58 p.m.

Jim Anderson hizo una mueca de dolor al decir "oportunidad". Se detuvo un momento en la palabra mientras una veintena de profesionales del sector meteorológico se sentaban en sillas plegables...

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, on campus with a crocodile fossil on Aug. 26, 2022. He has planned a three-month Saharan expedition to explore huge caches of dinosaur fossils as well as human remains from a "green Sahara" society of 8,000 years ago.

Meet Paul Sereno, the Indiana Jones of paleontology. He’ll be sending dispatches from his work in the Sahara Desert in the coming weeks.

September 18, 2022 at 12:54 p.m.

Paul Sereno, the longtime University of Chicago professor and so-called Indiana Jones of paleontology, a finder of lost civilizations and discoverer of new dinosaurs, one of the most beautiful people...

Attendees browse the booths and talk to vendors during the Meteorological Technology World Expo on Sept. 1, 2022, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.

What are meteorologists thinking? They can tell us about the weather, but also worry about the climate emergency.

September 16, 2022 at 7:15 a.m.

Jim Anderson winced as he said opportunity. He paused on the word for a moment as about 20 weather-industry professionals sat in folding chairs before him. Anderson didn't want to...

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