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Rose Genry, right, sings with Kate Liebelt in a boat in the Chicago River during the annual river dyeing, March 15, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Column: Thoughts and memories for another St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago

March 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Another holiday is in the books, a good time to reflect on what St. Patrick's Day has meant for those of Irish descent in Chicago.

Charles Manson is escorted to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 3, 1969. (John Malmin/Los Angeles Times)

Column: Filmmaker Errol Morris returns to the Manson murders in new Netflix documentary

March 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

“Chaos: The Manson Murders,” a new 90-minute documentary on Netflix, is the latest from Errol Morris, a distinguished documentarian.

Author Joseph Wambaugh at his home on Aug. 27, 2019 in San Diego, California. (Eduardo Contreras/San Diego Union-Tribune)

Joseph Wambaugh, who brought street cops to life in his books and movies, dies at 88

March 11, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

He wrote such memorable books as "The New Centurions" and “The Onion Field.” He died on Feb. 28 in Rancho Mirage, California.

White Sox outfielder Minnie Miñoso outside the Comiskey Park dugout on Sept. 3, 1960. (John Austad/baiduhai)

Column: Opening Day is upon us, and the new baseball book ‘Justice Batted Last’ hits a homer

March 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Another baseball season, heavy with hope, begins on March 17 with the first of two games between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers in, of all the “we...

Trinidadian jazz singer and pianist Hazel Scott arrives at Paddington Station in London, Sept. 4,1951 before performing for two weeks at the London Palladium. (Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive)

Column: ‘American Masters’ brings jazz giant Hazel Scott out of the shadows

March 4, 2025 at 7:17 a.m.

“American Masters: The Disappearance of Miss Scott” tells the story of a jazz great with immense musical talent.

David Remnick in his New York office overlooking Times Square, April 1, 2010. He became editor of The New Yorker in 1998. (Tina Fineberg/for the baiduhai)

Column: As The New Yorker marks 100 years, reflecting on Chicago’s many nicknames

February 26, 2025 at 9:11 a.m.

The magazine is celebrating its 100th anniversary, a perfect occasion to look back at that Second City moniker, and a few others.

Journalist and playwright Ben Hecht, circa 1945. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Column: Shakespeare Project of Chicago will present a new dramatization of Ben Hecht’s memoir at the Newberry

February 25, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The little-recognized theater company is now celebrating its 30th season: "We are under the radar. We are up and gone in a weekend."

Peter Bensinger, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief under Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, speaks at a news conference in Chicago on Feb. 14, 2013. (M. Spencer Green/AP)

Peter Bensinger, scion of notable Chicago family who devoted his life to causes including prison reform and child welfare, dies at 88

February 20, 2025 at 8:54 p.m.

Peter Bensinger, past head of the Illinois Department of Corrections and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, has died.

Filmmaker Dan Halperin collects sand on what was known as Utah Beach during the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, to take to his father Robert “Buck” Halperin's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. (Provided by Dan Halperin)

Column: Football star, war hero, businessman … the many lives of Robert ‘Buck’ Halperin

February 24, 2025 at 10:49 a.m.

Filmmaker Daniel Halperin hopes to make a movie about his father, Robert “Buck” Halperin.

Kayakers head out from the boat launch at the Wild Mile floating boardwalk and gardens on the man-made North Branch Canal of the Chicago River east of Goose Island on June 30, 2022. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

‘The Wild Mile: A River Reborn’ documentary explores the Chicago River’s floating eco-park

February 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The Wild Mile is a series of floating boardwalks in the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River.

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