Musicians Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis get Wild Wild Wild
Musical magic happens when Robbie Fulks teams up with Linda Gail Lewis for a new genre-spanning album.
Musical magic happens when Robbie Fulks teams up with Linda Gail Lewis for a new genre-spanning album.
A very Chicago sports update.
Cubs are limping toward the playoffs and need to turn it up if they’re going to make it back to the World Series
The guys behind 2 beloved Chicago bands are together again, this time playing 70’s AM radio and soul-inspired music
The Gene Siskel Film Center will screen “The Area” through Sept. 27.
Chicago sanitation crews painted over four high-profile murals in the past year. Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, has offered a possible solution.
In 2012, artist and Chicago native Maria Gaspar began the 96 Acres Project. 96 acres is the space Cook County Jail takes up on the city’s west side. The ongoing project engages the community to talk and think about the impact of this massive incarceration space in their Little Village neighborhood. This weekend Gaspar adds yet another dimension to 96 Acres with Radioactive: Stories from Beyond The Wall, a multimedia event featuring narratives and art from former and current inmates.
When the week got started, it seemed like the biggest story—hands-down—would be testimony by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary committee. But at least locally, a bombshell announcement Tuesday morning, quickly upended that narrative. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave a brief but emotional press conference announcing to that he will not seek a third term in office. So, what does his surprise decision mean for the City of Chicago during the rest of his time in office? For HIS legacy? And for the mayor’s race, where 12 candidates had lined up the challenge him? Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup dives into those questions, and a couple of related stories, including the start of the trial of Jason Van Dyke, and a new development on the consent decree that will soon govern the Chicago Police Department.
Bears LB Sam Acho talks about his quest to make Chicago and the world a better place
In 1968, presidential delegates, anti-war protesters, and journalists converged on Chicago for an event that came to represent the country’s turmoil.