A new documentary establishes Jane Addams and her close friend, Mary Rozet Smith, as gay icons. Does it go too far? Read more
The Strangerer, a fascinating Theater Oobleck play that earned rave reviews last year, returns for a six-week run at the Chopin Theatre. Read more
The Supreme Court may shoot a hole in Chicago's gun ban Read more
The quirky Lebowski Fest draws thousands of fans obsessed with the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, held in Chicago March 7th to 9th. Read more
At the turn of the 20th century, the country's most famous antismoking crusader was a sharp-tongued, stern-faced zealot from Chicago who nearly succeeded in achieving a statewide ban on cigarettes. Now, as a new antismoking law takes effect in Illinois, her nearly forgotten story gets a fitting coda. Read more
Francis Ford Coppola needed a way out of his slump. So he called an old friend at the University of Chicago. Read more
MCA curator Dominic Molon discusses key works from the new exhibition Sympathy for the Devil. Read more
Founded 100 years ago, Chicago's Essanay studio launched the movie careers of Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery and helped a cockney comic named Charlie Chaplin rocket to fame. Read more