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The influential Chicago house artist suffered "a major stroke" in November 2022

Darryl Pandy was the voice behind the house classic “Love Can’t Turn Around”. Darryl Pandy was the voice behind the house classic “Love Can’t Turn Around”.

For Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison walks us through the synth-driven boom of electronic music in the '80s.

When Kirk Townsend started DJing at 14-years-old in 1974, he was paid $50 for his first gig, a party for a family friend inside Chatham’s Starlight Bowling Alley.

All day on Virgin Radio 80s Plus, we’re taking it back to the dance tracks that made the UK club scene so iconic during the decade. 

The Chosen Few DJs Picnic and Festival, the South Side’s long-running “Woodstock of House Music,” got off to an inauspicious start with an unexpectedly clammy morning on Saturday — but

The Chosen Few Picnic managed to fight through the rain and radiate sunshine on July 8, 2023. The house music picnic held in Jackson park on the South-Side of

Fun things to do in Chicago on the weekend of July 7-9.

The festival was started in 1990 by the Chosen Few DJs, a group of house music pioneers from Chicago. With house music’s recent rise in mainstream popularity, the event showcases the music that’s never left its birthplace.

Desiree Taylor, 47, from Baltimore, came to Chicago for the first time with eight friends who go to house music festivals every year for the “funkier” and “more soulful” approach of house music.