Wherever you live in Chicago, someone famous once lived there, too. Here’s a list of the best known — or at least the most interesting — people to have inhabited our neighborhoods.
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
The singer-songwriter fuses blues, rock, Americana, and more on his new album, Saint of Second Chances.
As she ends her American Library Association term, Tracie D. Hall warns against efforts to hinder our access to books.
A new book by Andrew Buss, Top Five: How High Fidelity Found Its Rhythm And Became a Cult Movie Classic takes a look at the original text by Nick Hornby, as well as its film and Hulu adaptations. Some of the best chapters focus on the movie, which was set in Chicago and required a … Read more
In her beautiful and bizarre book The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Chicago-area author Jami Nakamura Lin draws upon the folklore, monsters, and myths of her Japanese Taiwanese Okinawan American heritage to explode conventional narratives of mental illness and grief. Born in Chicago, Nakamura Lin grew up in Rolling Meadows, spent her 20s in Ravenswood … Read more
Robert Johnson probably had not visited Chicago when he recorded what became our city’s unofficial anthem in 1936. “Oh, baby, don’t you want to go,” the Mississippi blues legend croons, “back to the land of California, to my sweet home, Chicago.” Huh? Last time we checked, Chicago was not located in California. Perhaps to avoid … Read more
The beloved Chicago DJ is celebrating 50 years at WXRT. We spoke with her about The Beatles, breaking tough news, and her loyal audience.
