Instagram Handle:@mrcrim3 Followers:117,000 Who’s behind it: West Pullman native Ernest Crim III, 35 What it is: Videos on Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and other Black historical figures — with a contemporary take. (Wells “was a G … fearless enough to call white women out.”) Crim also highlights unsung heroes such as Barbara Johns, who organized a … Read more
The Daleys liked to keep it in the family and in the neighborhood.
Men have gone soft, Vegas has gone Disney, and the pickings are getting slim in the fields of fame. Fortunately, writer Bill Zehme — who has peered inside the psyches of Letterman and Leno, gotten naked with Sharon Stone, and teased life’s secrets out of Sinatra himself — is still out there searching for answers.
On his podcast, Vanished Chicagoland, Pete Kastanes records memories of businesses that have faded into history.
A hardware store’s closing in Logan Square brings to a head the rising tensions over protected bike lanes.
Once considered an unsophisticated term, “youse” may be one of the most gender-neutral ways to address others.
The late Sam Kinison, the second-funniest comedian to come out of Illinois, launched his career with a riff about solving world hunger. “Stop sending them food,” Kinison whispered, then screamed, as was his shtick. “Don’t send them another bite. Send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, ‘You know, we’ve been coming here giving … Read more
