In 1970, Ebert was a young critic at the Sun-Times, when he came across a young singer-songwriter-mailman playing future standards at the Fifth Peg, in "out of the way" Lincoln Park. Read more
List Price: $425,000 The Property: Chicagoans first saw the architecture of the Keck brothers at the Century of Progress Exposition, the world’s fair held here along Lake Michigan in 1933... Read more
Yes, the schedule is full of offerings from around the world, but the Chicago International Film Festival, which starts October 11, has more than a few movies with Windy City ties. Read more
On your agenda: Irvin Welsh writes a play… top-tier comedians talk funny-business… free art, the weekend plans of the Chicago International Film Festival’s program director Mimi Plauché Read more
The notoriously rigorous actor surprised people with his reedy-voiced Great Emancipator, but it's actually a lot closer to what Abraham Lincoln plausibly sounded like than the profoundly silly screen Lincolns of legend. Read more
In his budget address, the Mayor said that in less than four years, 22 percent of the city's budget will be consumed by pension costs. Why? That's when a state-imposed schedule, which would get the city's pensions 90 percent funded in 25 years, begins. Read more
