Going, Going …
After a locally owned Picasso portrait of the artist’s mistress Dora Maar was sold at auction for $95.2 million, the deal raised profound questions about the loss of the work and the future of the city’s museums.
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What’s so funny about Stephen Colbert? The Chicago comedians who make up half his writing team
Valerie Jarrett & Desirée Rogers
Jarrett and Rogers, both now headed to the White House, form two-thirds of a high-profile Chicago sisterhood along with publishing heir Linda Johnson Rice. Their friendship is described in this story by Marcia Froelke Coburn. Jarrett has been named a senior adviser to Obama and Rogers is said to be in line to be White House social secretary.
R.I.P. John Mahoney, Iconic Chicago Actor and "Frasier" Dad
In honor of the Steppenwolf mainstay, we are republishing our 1998 profile of Mahoney at the height of his TV career.
A Touch of Glass
It’s 1995 and Ira Glass stands poised on the brink of a national radio personality
The Boys of Rush Street
Friday is prime time for taking a chance on the chase. To be single and male is to prowl at a hungry pace.
Nelson Algren’s Last Year: Algren in Exile
In the last year of his life, the hot-blooded hustler was back on the make.