For love or money, fest covers it all
Talk about love -- Toni Morrison did on the final weekend of the 14th annual Chicago Humanities Festival. Talk about money -- that's something poets rarely do, noted Joseph Parisi....
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The woman who named an era
More than four centuries ago, Queen Elizabeth I was a celebrity with a capital C. If there had been a People magazine at the time, the English monarch -- called...
Meet the Barringtons
You've got the old-money Barrington, the new-money Barrington, the peoples' Barrington, the lost Barrington, the would-be Barrington and the stealth Barringtons. But relax. Keeping up with this merry band of...
Evidently, others were wild about Harry Potter too
There must have been something in the air. Best-selling novelist Mary Higgins Clark says she laughed when she first heard of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. That's because she had one...
TOTE BOARD
The publisher's estimate that Hillary Clinton's 562-page memoir, "Living History," sold 200,000 on its first day in bookstores Monday is only a guess -- but it's probably not far off....
Much ado about an 838-page book’s 36 words
First, a warning: If you're thinking of plunking down $30 for Robert Dallek's new biography, "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963" (Little, Brown), to learn all the seamy, sleazy...
Healing process
As Cook County Board President John Stroger forges ahead with his controversial plan to demolish Cook County Hospital, it is worth remembering a similar battle fought more than 30 years...
Part 3: The alternatives
Anyone who is satisfied with the way Chicago protects its historic landmarks should hitch a ride to New York City in a tractor-trailer loaded with refrigerated steer carcasses. They'll arrive...
Part 2: The demolition machine
The wrecking crews began tearing into the tavern on July 3, pummeling the Bavarian gable and the ornate brickwork that had the feel of old Germany. The tavern was part...
Part 1: The threat to neighborhoods
Twenty years ago, the city of Chicago launched a mission never undertaken before by any major American community. It dispatched teams of architectural experts to examine every last one of...