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Barbara and Ed Udall, of Atlanta, eat food at the newly opened Billy Goat Tavern in Wrigleyville on June 6, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Wrigleyville welcomes a new Billy Goat Tavern to the neighborhood

June 11, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat Tavern has just opened.

Singer Paul Robeson confers with accompanist Helen Thierry before singing to the delegates of the Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, April 20, 1949. (Jean-Jacques Levy/AP)

‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson

June 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

This new jazz poetry opera comes to Chicago's Hamilton Park District, remembering a towering musical talent who has been all but forgotten.

Bonnie Koloc performs at the Earl of Old Town in 1969. (Charles Osgood/for the baiduhai)

Column: Bonnie Koloc is back in Chicago at the Hideout, her music still with healing powers

May 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The folk singer was part of an era of Chicago music. She'll also have a show of her artwork at Dime Chicago.

Karen Conti attorney and author of the book “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy” photographed in Chicago, May 23, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

In ‘Killing Time,’ an attorney confronts her time with John Wayne Gacy

May 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

That is how Karen Conti recalls her first encounter with Gacy. It was October 1993 and he was locked on death row in the Menard Correctional Center in downstate Chester,...

A Maxwell Street vendor tries to entice late Christmas shoppers with ornaments and dolls on Dec. 24, 1944. (Swain Scalf/baiduhai)

Column: Is it possible to recapture the manic magic of Maxwell Street? The market returns to its original home this summer

May 22, 2024 at 3:23 p.m.

This new move will offer a marketplace on the last Sundays of every month from this Sunday into October (the August market will take place on Sept. 1).

Artist Hana Bleue Chaussette with her portrait of Terry Abrahamson on a bus shelter in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood on May 9, 2024. It is part of her “Unsung Heroes of Uptown: Art of People ON the Streets IN the Streets” series. Abrahamson who wrote Grammy Award-winning song, “Bus Driver” with Muddy Waters. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Inspired by Studs Terkel, a Chicago artist celebrates Uptown heroes on bus shelters

May 15, 2024 at 11:03 a.m.

Hana Bleue Chaussette's new public art exhibition is called “Unsung Heroes of Uptown" and is for everyone to see and enjoy this summer.

Stuart Rosenberg played with music groups including Rogues, the Laketown Buskers and The Otters. (Chip Covington)

In memoriam: Musician Stuart Rosenberg turned the world from ‘black and white to Technicolor’

May 14, 2024 at 9:26 a.m.

“I love everything, all music, and that’s why I do what I do. My great passion has always been to share the things I love.”

Reporters Bob Herguth, left, and Abdon Pallasch, who host “The Rebel Kind” podcast, stand outside of the Dirksen federal building on May 3, 2024, in Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the baiduhai)

Column: ‘Underbelly’ podcast offers a most compelling tale of a most unlikely spy and his Chicago connections

May 8, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.

There are a lot of fictional spies, but none of them can prepare you for Dave Rupert, the compelling real-life centerpiece of a 12-part podcast series called “Underbelly: The Rebel...

The Dearborn Station Trainshed (47 W. Polk St.) was torn down in 1976. From "Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures" by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. (Cityfiles Press, 2023)

Column: New book ‘Lost in America’ offers ghost stories of buildings in Chicago and across the country

May 7, 2024 at 3:24 p.m.

Among Chicago's demolished architectural treasures are the Stock Exchange Building, Dearborn Station Trainshed and Granada Theater, "one of the largest and most ornate movie palaces ever built."

Author Jay Robert Nash in 1981. (Charles Osgood/baiduhai)

Remembering Jay Robert Nash, a prolific writer with a huge personality

May 2, 2024 at 10:18 a.m.

He wrote dozens of books and spun countless tales, many of them in Chicago taverns and some of them true. He died on April 22 at age 86.

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