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Featuring bands, burlesque performers and a rat mascot, the Rathole Music Fest began as a joke on social media in the wake of the fame of the Roscoe Village rat hole. On Saturday, performers took over Bourbon on Division bar.
His acclaimed novel was published when he was 30, and he’d been guiding young writers ever since. He collapsed during a softball game and died.
‘90s Music Box screening of the Faye Dunaway film helped spur A. Ashley Hoff’s interest in how the Joan Crawford exposé made it to the big screen.
The bookseller plans to open three more locations in the Chicago area this summer, part of a larger plan to expand its physical footprint nationwide.
Novels set romances in the worlds of baseball, hockey, basketball, soccer and more.
The two Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organizations garnered the Local Reporting prize on Monday for the “Missing in Chicago” series, and Invisible Institute won a second Pulitzer for audio reporting. Eig’s ‘King: A Life’ won in the Biography category.
He was known for his books on crime and cinema that fed the interests of buffs before the age of Wikipedia and IMDb.
Owner Courtney Bledsoe said the store will focus on stocking books by authors of color and celebrating the stories they tell.
A window of the Andersonville feminist bookstore displaying a Palestine flag and a sign calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war was shattered early Wednesday. Police are investigating.
The WLS National Barn Dance, which predated the Opry by two years, was first broadcast 100 years ago Friday, on April 19, 1924.
With “The Divorcées,” Rowan Beaird taps into the alienation she felt growing up in Northfield.
Just 12 years old when his father, Jean de Brunhoff died, Laurent was an adult when he drew upon his own gifts as a painter and storyteller and released dozens of books about the elephant who reigns over Celesteville.
Mills isn’t preachy and knows her readers may not be ready to go full-on vegetarian. For her, it’s about small steps that can make meaningful changes.
Inspired by real-life historical events and tragedies throughout the city, “Forgotten Sisters” arrives March 19.
The copy’s inside title page mistakenly stated the author’s name as “J A Rowling” instead of J.K. Rowling.
“Does This Taste Funny: Recipes Our Family Loves” will be released in September.
The movie star, known for playing Gale Sayers in ‘Brian’s Song’ and Lando Calrissian in ‘Star Wars’ films, is headed to the Francis W. Parker School to discuss his new memoir.