As the Morton Salt complex was given a new life, a photographer captured the transformation
What's now the Salt Shed was rebuilt from a shuttered industrial building. Sandra Steinbrecher's new book shows how she was there to capture the change.
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Irish American Movie Hooley hits the 10-year mark with 3 winning films
Taking place over three days at the Wilmette Theatre, the 2024 festival begins with the documentary “Sins of Ireland.”
WTTW’s new season of ‘Chicago Stories’ gives us Riverview, the Black Sox and poor Bobby Franks
As usual, it is eight hour-long programs with all manner of internet extras and packed with such familiar people and places as Hugh Hefner, Al Capone and Riverview.
On Printers Row and beyond, Chicago is a literary playground
Printers Row Lit Fest over the weekend was so alive with activities and punctuated our vitality as a literary center.
Miles Harvey’s short stories in ‘Registry of Forgotten Objects’ travel from rural Indiana to a dystopian future
His debut collection of 12 stories is set among a wide variety of places and characters. "I love the idea that someone will discover it.”
Film tells the time-traveling story of a musical duet between Paul Marinaro and his father Joseph
"You Will Be My Music" documentary will have two screenings this weekend, with a live performance by the Paul Marinaro Quintet.
Column: The joy and music / one couple has discovered / from writing haikus
The musical duo Jenny and Robin Bienemann will host a concert this weekend at FitzGerald’s devoted to the poetry form.
Column: Taking another ride with Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe and a bunch of Merry Pranksters in ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’
When revisiting books we've already read, we can uncover new things about the book and, perhaps, also new things about ourselves.
Boodlers and bandits: In Illinois and Chicago, corruption is a source of both shame and perverse pride
Longtime Chicago Ald. Mathias “Paddy” Bauler was well known for proclaiming, often with a beer in hand: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” He might as well have said or added,...
One-man show ‘Toughest Man in Chicago’ brings Mike Royko back to the city
The actor Mitchell Bisschop says he's not trying to do an impression of the famous newspaperman in the play, which is based on many of Royko's columns.