Logan Square—forever changing
Tag: history
Posted inMusic
Patrick Haggerty carries on the spirit of Lavender Country
Forty years later, the man behind the first gay country record teams up with a former Chicagoan to reach out to another marginalized population.
Posted inArts & Culture
Door County road trip: Bulgarian folk dancing, a beer festival, and shipwrecks
The Door County peninsula features Bulgarian folk dancing, a beer festival, and shipwrecks—and occasionally some solitude.
Posted inArts & Culture
The resurrection of a bygone amusement park
Eden Springs, an amusement park built by dying religious sect the House of David, is coming back to life.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
County clerk David Orr’s reform talk annoys another mayor
Cook County clerk David Orr’s reform proposals have been irritating mayors for 35 years.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club rides again
Documentary photographer Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders revs up for a long-overdue reissue.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When Chicago spent its pension money on the mayor’s pet projects
As mayor, Richard M. Daley spent hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary pet projects—and Emanuel seems to have the same bad habit.
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago authors share their secrets
Chicago authors with spring books coming out share methods for combating writer’s block and other secrets.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
At Columbia College, a film screening is followed by a charge of bias
A dispute over academic freedom erupts over a Columbia College course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted inNews & Politics
Unfriendly confines: Did racial discrimination start the Cubs’ slide?
P.K. Wrigley spurned black players at a pivotal time—did his actions start the Cubs’ slide?
Posted inMusic
An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
Posted inFood & Drink
The audacity of Michael Sheerin’s Cicchetti
Former Blackbird chef Michael Sheerin is taking Venetian food somewhere new.
Posted inCity Life
Metro’s backstage past
Metro’s green room has dealt with its fair share of rock stars, Kurt and Courtney among them.
Posted inNews & Politics
The missing link in the War on Poverty
To better help the urban poor, government must address not just their deprivation but also their segregation.
Posted inNews & Politics
This week’s Chicagoan: Adam Selzer, ghost-tour guide
This week’s Chicagoan is Adam Selzer, ghost-tour guide.