Chicago Bears General Manager Ryan Pace is looking to Philadelphia, Kansas City, New England, Minnesota and within the Chicago team itself, for a replacement for Former Head Coach John Fox. […]
CPS Interim Chief Janice Jackson revealed renderings of a new high school in Englewood, to be equipped with outdoor sports facilities and health center, and a vocational training program. Architect […]
Last year, Chicago hit highs in the 60s and 70s in the thick of its Winter, and an average of 41 degrees in February. Records that date back to 1895 […]
Editor’s Note: This review was also recently posted by our friends at Music Box Theatre. You can read it here. A master of comedic deadpan for more than 30 years, […]
Nominated a year ago for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards and also the official Finnish contender for the 2016 Academy Awards, The Fencer is a surprisingly […]
At some point right around the time the artist Tom of Finland (real name Touko Laaksonen) died in the early 1990s, I remember seeing Daddy and the Muscle Academy, a […]
The Insidious films (this is the fourth one, for those counting) have always been a mixed bag. The first two chapters started strong with a quality director (James Wan), the […]
Over the last decade or so writer-director Scott Cooper has amassed an impressive filmography of stories that are so bleakly human as to almost be horror films (or more precisely, […]
Taking a similar approach to earth-shattering news events as 2015’s Spotlight, Steven Spielberg’s The Post barrels through a lot of information, a small army of characters, and enough twists and […]
When we think of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, clichéd images come to mind such as Elvis impersonators, showgirls, tough-looking mobsters and lounge lizard entertainers. Many of these images have […]
The Divvy bike-sharing program had a big year in 2017, with riders biking 7.3 million miles in 3.8 million trips. More than 37,000 annual members joined, up from 33,000 in […]
The Chicago History Museum is processing about 35,000 nitrate negatives of images taken over the past 200 years. The images will be available online as part of the museum’s collection […]
