Michaeli details the history of the Chicago Defender and sheds light on a number of the newspaper’s reporters. Michaeli was a Defender copy editor and investigative reporter from 1991 to 1996.

House Musical: Coming of Age in the Age of House, the new community production running at Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre, is a great history lesson on the genre and Black Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Love it or hate it, Malort is uniquely Chicago and sure to get an intense reaction whenever it's brought out. Now author Josh Noel has written a book about the bitter liquor ...

A new book, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, explores the untold story behind one of Chicago's most famous landmarks. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs ...

Bar or restaurant magic is commonly associated with Chicago. In the 20th century, a number of magicians, including Matt Schulien, helped make it what it is today. Walking around Chicago in the ...

For the people who were there when it was invented in small clubs and basement parties in Chicago in the 1980s, house music was a force of nature. Four decades later, its impact is bigger than ever.

"We were in the middle of this history forming around house culture - it was blowing up in Chicago at the time," Martin continues. Ford "knew music inside and out. It is really a thread that runs ...

10 Story Book vol 3 #10, March 1904. Inset: Green County Harold, 1910. Welcome back, and it's time for Spicy History Stories #8, the eighth installment of a regular column about pulp magazine ...

Meet the woman who wrote the book on West Loop's history 04:22. CHICAGO (CBS) --The West Loop is one happening place these days, with booming development of retail, restaurants, and lots of new ...

The recently reissued zine ran for 10 issues from 1989 to 1993, as house "was blowing up." By Elias Leight In 1986, Simone Bouyer worked a day job in Chicago at the advertising agency Ogilvy ...

Last Call Chicago: A History of 1,001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts could not have been written by anyone but authors Rick Karlin and St Sukie de la Croix.Both are journalists with a ...

In 1986, Simone Bouyer worked a day job in Chicago at the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather while painting in her spare time. “I was having a problem getting my art shown,” she recalls ...