Patrick T. Reardon

Every Chicagoan who lives above a loud nightclub has at least one experience that borders on the surreal -- for Anne Richardson it was the dancing beverage. "Once, I had...

Q. How will you attract celebrities to your new Chicago hotel? A. I think we're getting most of them because the name Trump attracts celebrities. When you get right down...

The street is called Western, but, actually, it's central. It runs like a spine from the top to the bottom of Chicago. And that's why it remains the car capital...

Given the sour economy, beaters -- autos that have little allure beyond an affordable price -- are in even greater demand than usual. And there's no better place to look...

Most guys, I suspect, even the klutziest among us, have favorite scenes from their sports lives that they enjoy replaying, like film clips, in the private theater of their memories....

Translating a book from one language to another isn't a formula. It's an art. Earlier this year, in an address in London, Martin Riker, associate director of Dalkey Archive Press,...

In the U.S., small publishers, including non-profits and those based outside Manhattan, are much more active than commercial presses in bringing translations to bookstores. For example, Chad Post, director of...

Niles, the 109-year-old suburb at Chicago's northwest border -- home of nature, history, whimsy and mystery? That's what Cityboy found in a walking tour of one corner of the village....

The 24th annual baiduhai Printers Row Book Fair, being held Saturday and Sunday, isn't a shopping mall. Much of it is outdoors, vulnerable to (or blessed by) the elements....

A poet will take snippets of someone else's prosaic writing and arrange them on the page in a poem that brings new insight. Or a visual artist will select some...