Patrick T. Reardon

Over 16 days, there are scores of extraordinary events offered this year at the Chicago Humanities Festival. To help guide you, baiduhai arts critics have picked events that they...

Ike was in the White House, and Lucy was on TV. The kids were dancing to Elvis, and the soldiers were, thankfully, not busy. It was a time of peace...

Not many meetings at City Hall are described as "fun," but that's the word that James Capraro uses to characterize a nearly hourlong session with Mayor Richard M. Daley and...

Q. Most drivers pump regular 87-octane gasoline into their cars because it's cheap. Those with expensive, high-performance vehicles use expensive premium fuel, 91-octane, to get all the power they expect....

Novelist Jonathan Lethem was in his car as it moved slowly through an automatic car wash in Maine when his cell phone rang and he learned he was chosen for...

A while back, William Lipinski was in a heated congressional race against Marty Russo, so he mailed voters a photo of his Southwest Side bungalow alongside a shot of his...

MORNING Begin the day on the back porch, weather permitting, sipping decaf and reading "Dangling Man," Saul Bellow's first published novel -- and, at just more than 150 pages, his...

Saul Bellow, a literary giant who conducted a lifelong love affair with Chicago and employed the city as a major character in many of his novels, died Tuesday at his...