The tiny rooms look pleasant enough, with curtains in the windows, a light overhead, a coffee cake fresh out of the oven. But look closer, because things aren’t what they seem: in one room, a body’s fallen on the floor; in another, a woman lies face-down in a bathtub. The …
Edith Rockefeller McCormick helped establish Chicago’s Lyric Opera, lent support to Carl Jung, underwrote a young James Joyce and founded Brookfield Zoo. Only now is her unconventional and uncompromising story being told.
It’s not just the people who give the Chicago Pedway its neighborhood feel. Like any stretch of the city, the Pedway has its own rhythms — when it’s busiest; the good places to eat; where to get a shoe repaired; even the best place for a quick hair cut and …
And I heard him exclaim as he rode out of sight “Merry Christmas to all. Next stop Davis Street.” For years I’ve watched news reports of Chicago’s CTA Holiday Train, the cars zipping through Chicago lit with thousands of festive holiday lights. Sightings of the train in person eluded me, …
