ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ...

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The Newtons dressed in matching outfits, generally in mixes of bright red, white and black. They both wore their hair in black bangs. In June 2006 the Newtons left their beloved Aurora mansion and put ...

Though lost almost entirely from the public imagination and relegated to a footnote in Chicago’s history, the Java Village was the single most popular attraction on the fair’s Midway Plaisance. The ...

In 1966, my family moved from the far Northwest Side of Chicago to the DePaul University area. While attending Oscar Mayer Elementary School for sixth grade, I was almost immediately “adopted” by a ...

Chicago’s Peace Garden is not a particularly peaceful place. Located in Uptown next to Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Buena Avenue underpass, its tranquility is undermined by the constant roar of ...

The true Romani playing in Chicago include: Tony Bellog: A regular performer with Alphonso Ponticelli’s Swing Gitan at the Green Mill on Wednesday nights, Bellog is from a legendary family of gypsy ...

One project, however, has been lost to time. In 1974, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago journalists Roger Ebert and Mike Royko collaborated on a screenplay about the Fox. They called it “The Adventures ...

Part one in a series on the future of downtown Chicago. Part two. Part three. Order the issue. *** Lou Raizin has a big idea. It’s not the first time. The impresario, who leads Broadway in Chicago, ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

After World War II, thousands of servicemen returned home from the war. Some resumed normal lives with their families. Others, shell-shocked, lonely and suffering from what we now know as ...