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Claudia von Mallinckrodt records a video of items she found to offer them to her followers Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in Hinsdale. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Her Rich Goodwill account is TikTok famous for the stuff she finds in Hinsdale’s trash

November 19, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

Claudia von Thrift doesn't judge those who throw out new Crate & Barrel furniture. Her widely-followed social media accounts are about the joys of the treasure hunt.

Patti Smith performs at the Chicago Theatre on Nov. 17, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses,’ live and powerful at 50

November 18, 2025 at 6:10 p.m.

At the Chicago Theatre, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still alternately vivid and elliptical.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, shown in a 1959 photo, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets when it sank during a November storm in 1975. (AP)

A ceremony remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years later, gales of November included

November 11, 2025 at 2:39 p.m.

Friends and family members gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to ring the bell and remember those who died 50 years ago.

Stone artwork depicts a Native American as the Hononegah Community High School Indians mascot at Kelsey Field on the school campus on Oct. 17, 2025, in Rockton. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Column: Why changing problematic high school nicknames is back in the spotlight — and a lesson in history

November 7, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

As playoff football games unfold across the state, two prospective bills are resurfacing in Springfield that insist the village of Freeburg, and many other Illinois schools, rethink their problematic nicknames.

Cremation Air, an ash-scattering plane, on display Oct. 29, 2025, during the National Funeral Directors Association Convention at McCormick Place. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

From cradle to grave: There was something for everyone alive and otherwise at the Chicago funeral directors convention

November 14, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place. It was not a solemn gathering.

Warren Township High School student Lilani Devries leads her friends as they trick-or-treat in a neighborhood in Gurnee on Oct. 26, 2025. Gurnee does trick-or-treating on the Sunday before Halloween. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

How old is too old to trick or treat? The answer is more complicated than it sounds.

October 31, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

For the record, there is no statewide age restriction on trick or treating in Illinois. But many small communities around the country set formal and informal age limits.

Fred Armisen in the green room before his show at Space in Evanston, Oct. 14, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Fred Armisen has got an ear for noise. Cue his new album, ‘100 Sound Effects’

October 30, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

There are moments when no other city sounds like Chicago, he says. Like when an "L" train is passing, or the moment you step out of a bustling restaurant in...

David Byrne performs at one of his four sold out shows at the Auditorium Theatre, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Review: David Byrne has always made the totally original look head-slappingly obvious

October 29, 2025 at 10:25 a.m.

His “Who Is the Sky Tour” is at the Auditorium in Chicago through the weekend. On an empty stage, the entire band and the singers stay in motion the whole...

Electric Funeral owner Jan. Overton pours a drink at the horror-themed bar in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood on Oct. 15, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Horror as a lifestyle: The rise of spooky and gothic shops

October 24, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Slowly, steadily, a small but quite lively patchwork of horror-and-gothic-themed shopfronts and cafes and restaurants and bars have been replicating across America.

An art piece called "A HOLE," a conceptual piece featuring a pane of glass with a single bullet hole, is in a retrospective exhibit of work by Yoko Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Oct. 17, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ at the MCA upends assumptions

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.

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