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This incest-adjacent relationship doesn’t mean he’s unfaithful.

The blues patriarch also had three sons who played together as the Kinsey Report. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties whove been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. The Secret History of Chicago Music has often had to contend with the question of geography. Ive counted artists as "from Chicago" even when theyve been based as ...

Several statues along the shoreline are being reevaluated for possible removal.

click to enlarge The west side garage where a man was found unresponsive in his car In late August, a man was found unresponsive in his car outside the west side location of the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a local overdose prevention and harm reduction group, according to former employee Nikki Carter. After Carter said she believed a responding employee was taking an ...

Jerk chicken egg rolls are a popular dish on Chicago's South and West sides, as Black restaurateurs get creative with the fillings.

The secret FBI informant who betrayed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Robert Mitchell, The Washington Post Feb. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail William ONeals secret life came to an end three years after the Chicago police raid that killed charismatic Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. In a front-page story on Feb. 3, 1973, the Chicago Tribune identified ONeal, the onetime Black Panther security chief, as an informant who aided the FBI in an investigation of a murder ring operated by current a...

click to enlarge Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Mitchell This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, inclu...

This has been a helluva week for Second City news. On Wednesday, Financial Times first published reports of an imminent sale of the comedy behemoth to private equity firm ZMC, owned by Strauss Zelnick. Zelnick is the CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, home of the Grand Theft Auto game franchise. On Thursday, those rumors were confirmed by ZMC; they declined to name the purchase price, but FT said that "the company was expected to fetch about $50 [million]."  Coincidentally, Wednesday was...

click to enlarge Unsplash / The New York Public Library Among the flurry of bills passed in the five-day January lame duck session in Springfield was the Predatory Loan Prevention Act, a measure that would cap interest rates for consumer loans under $40,000—such as payday loans, installment loans, and auto title loans—at 36 percent...

It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the Obama Foundation with nearly 20 acres of Jackson Park as the site for the Obama Presidential Center. On the concrete terrace on the south side of the Museum of Science and Industry, where journalists and officials gathered for the announcement, it was blistering—too hot to process much beyond the need to find some shade.   Emanuel might have handed over a 99-year, $10 lease for 50 acres without getting a rise out of...