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Justin Robinson, right, from Northport, Alabama, talks about his paintings while enjoying the Old Town Art Fair in 2011.

Art fairs swing back to colorful life, with the Old Town Art Fair this weekend

June 6, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A splendid and often rewarding way to spend a summer Saturday or Sunday is to wander the sun-splashed streets of a city or suburban neighborhood and look at, in the...

Chris Vallillo's latest album is "Forgottonia," named after a real place, of sorts, in Western Illinois.

Chris Vallillo takes a musical journey to the people and places of the Illinois ‘nation’ of Forgottonia

June 1, 2023 at 10:50 a.m.

Chris Vallillo, an accomplished songwriter and singer, did not start out wanting to be a songwriter and singer but rather was drawn to archaeology and that has given him the...

Peter Bella, a retired CPD officer, is having his first photography exhibition at the Dime Gallery on Western Avenue in Chicago May 25, 2023.

He was a Chicago cop for three decades. Now Peter Bella is capturing the city in photos.

May 30, 2023 at 6:17 a.m.

There are tough jobs and there are very tough jobs and then there is the job of being a Chicago cop. That's what Peter Bella was for nearly 30 years,...

Augie and Tracy Aleksy laugh inside their Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park on May 18, 2023. They've owned the business for more than 30 years.

As Centuries & Sleuths owner prepares to retire after 30 years, a look at the joys of running an independent bookstore

May 23, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

After more than 30 years of reading books, loving books, selling books, and hosting authors and readers at his pleasant Forest Park bookstore named Centuries & Sleuths, Augie Aleksy is...

Former baiduhai critic and writer Cliff Terry.

Longtime Tribune writer and critic Cliff Terry dies

May 19, 2023 at 10:44 p.m.

The word "gentleman" is not ordinarily attached to newspaper writers but it, along with such other descriptions as "witty," "incisive" and "stylish," peppered conversations in the wake of the death...

Gene Tunney, right, fights Jack Dempsey at Soldier Field in what now is remembered as the "Long Count" match. Tunney retained his championship by a winning decision over Jack Dempsey before a crowd of 145,000 in September 1927.

New play at Theater Wit focuses on unlikely friendship between boxer Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw

May 17, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Among the many, many endeavors in his lengthy and active life, George Bernard Shaw wrote plays, more than 60 of them, the most famous being "Man and Superman" "Saint Joan"...

Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo.

New book ‘Last On His Feet’ captures brilliantly boxer Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

May 18, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, "Just remember, whatever you write...

Folksinger Bonnie Koloc at the Earl of Old Town, 1969.

New book captures 100 years of folk and country music history here in Chicago

May 11, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of...

Martha Minow, chair of the MacArthur Board of Directors, with her father Newton Minow, on March 18, 2022.

In memoriam: Newton Minow had 97 years of amazing, influential and ever-curious life

May 9, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

When one lives for 97 years, you can be assured that this person is filled with a mountain of memories of people, events and accomplishments, especially if fortunate enough to...

Loyola University students who have made a documentary about Bughouse Square, (l-r) Christina Hoffmann, Keagan Hynes, Taylor Evans Ghosal, Lexie Garrett, Marina Donahue and Duncan Hoag on May 1, 2023, in Chicago.

Six Loyola University students have captured the magic of Bughouse Square, the city’s oldest park

May 3, 2023 at 11:37 a.m.

The author, radio host and life force who was Studs Terkel spent many youthful years listening to a variety of voices in the park that is the three-acre front yard...

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