2+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) Gambling is nothing new in Chicago. Legal gambling is. City Hall’s handling of it still looks like the rackets of yore. With a suffocating debt and pension load, and another looming budget deficit, Chicago cannot afford incoherence on this important…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (29+ words) premieres, film festivals, fashion shows, vaudeville entertainment, concerts, musicals and even memorials....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (155+ words) “Dirty Dancing” has a new tour arriving in Chicago and its distinguished director, Lonny Price, says it is a whole new treatment of how Baby gets out of her corner. The show has toured before, but in the past it…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (356+ words) “It’s about celebrating youth across Chicagoland that are doing phenomenal things in the community,” Walker-West said. “We have categories celebrating kids for dancing, singing, being scholars, athletes, humanitarians. There’s award events for adults, but we don’t have anything for kids....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (415+ words) Some 30 years ago, Sheldon Epps had a cool idea for a hot show. Why not fuse the music of Duke Ellington with the plot of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and set the whole thing in swinging 1930s Harlem? “My idea was…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (892+ words) Jessica Rule, 18, entered Illinois State University this school year ready to step into musical theater as a major. Javon Phillips, 18, left his Austin community for Northern Illinois University with his eyes on a future that includes computer science. The pair…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (452+ words) Remember all the way back in 2023, during the height of the migrant influx, when Tribune reporting uncovered that a city contractor running operations at migrant shelters was submitting some eye-popping bills? We had no evidence of fraud. What we did…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (337+ words) Robert Falls is returning to directing in the Chicago theater, this time not at the Goodman, his artistic home for decades, but at Redtwist Theatre, a tiny venue located at 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. with fewer than 50 seats. Casting has not…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (210+ words) The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which... The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (889+ words) HOUSTON — The Chicago White Sox were in a position to break through in the eighth inning Wednesday against the Houston Astros. Tristan Peters was on third and Drew Romo on first with no outs in a scoreless game. The Astros…...