Chicago’s first and only cultural historian goes on emeritus status, but there’s plenty of work ahead of him.
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The long death of Jean Lalime
A classic tale of Chicago corruption, and also of rabbinical law, frontier justice, and the city’s first murder
Posted inMusic
Rapper Rich Jones gives a verse to the Chicago Mothman
After 57 sightings in 2017, the Chicago Mothman turns up on a Halloween-season track by rapper Rich Jones.
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Department of short memory: The original Charles James exhibit
The current Charles James exhibit at the Chicago History Museum isn’t the first.
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Help for your story
Patricipant Media hosts a free storytelling workshop to promote its new drama The Help.
Posted inFilm
From Iraq to Iowa
With a little help from Kartemquin Films, Usama Alshaibi documents the Arab-American experience.
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The origins of the term “Windy City” have been misreported (again)
Cecil Adams has spoken, but will the truth behind the Windy City’s nickname ever become common knowledge?
Posted inArts & Culture
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II
Studs Terkel’s Pulitzer-winning “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II fought its own war: Terkel’s firsthand witnesses testified to the ugly side of a noble struggle–internment camps, homophobia and racism in the trenches, war profiteering, rejection of the disfigured wounded, and American propagandizing. Like any war, this one undermined the very principles […]