An afternoon with Nelson Algren and some seniors as part of CPD’s ‘Chicago in Film’ series
This event was part of a program for senior citizens who live within the 24th district, which covers parts of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods.
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The story behind New York’s hottest new restaurant, Hamburger America, and a look at the owner’s time in Chicago
Like many of you, I like hamburgers. But no one I have ever met likes (and knows more about) hamburgers than George Motz.
Uplifting solo show ‘Impact’ was born from the Flight 103 terrorist tragedy
Playwright and performer Amy Engelhardt had been friends with some of those who died on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. She's bringing a show created from those memories to...
With Bond’s gizmos now at the MSI, a pause to remember Ian Fleming
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of...
The Newberry Library’s first female president is making big plans
If you don't know this Chicago gem on Walton Street well, its new leader Astrida Orle Tantillo is determined to make you aware of it.
Ronnie Marmo is back in town with Lenny Bruce and ‘Dr. Bob,’ opening this week
Ronnie Marmo is back in town, bringing with him a new bride, an old friend named Lenny Bruce and a play about a couple of men who stopped drinking and...
In memoriam: Reasons to love Richard Lewis, and why he loved Chicago
He first performed in Chicago in 1984 at Zanies and remained loyal to the Old Town comedy club ever since, last performing there in 2018.
FitzGerald’s in Berwyn may soon be a landmark — something Chicago music fans already knew
As the owners of the music club seek to secure landmark status, a look at its long and colorful history.
What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine
What is a poet? This is a question that I have been asking most of my life.
In the footsteps of Studs Terkel, Mark Larson gives us his own ‘Working’
He discovered, quickly, a working world vastly different from Terkel’s. "Some of the jobs then no longer exist and there are now jobs that no one could even have imagined...