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WBEZ's Lauren Chooljian takes her Year25 series to a memoir writing class for senior citizens. Their assignment? To write 500 words on what they were up to at the landmark age of 25

A social service group for performers is trying to increase the number of dancers with health insurance in Chicago. The Actors Fund says nearly one in every three dancers is uninsured.  

Next Tuesday March 27 is World Theatre Day. You didn't know? You mean you are among the tiny minority of 7 billion people unfamiliar with World Theatre Day? How strange!

1. Chicago Children's Theatre The Hundred Dresses has been picked up to run in New York by Atlantic Theater Company, opening February 19.

An exhibition currently at the Chicago Cultural Center explores the nature of violence against women.

The streets of Chicago have been documented by many famous photographers, including Art Shay and Harry Callahan. But during the 1950s and '60s, another shutterbug was busy at work. Vivian Maier was a nanny in Chicago’s northern suburbs.