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The recount of the Stonewall Riots, "Hit the Wall," originally produced by The Inconvenience, will return to Chicago with the majority of its original ensemble cast and artistic team in a triumphant remount presented by the Chicago Commercial Collective, running April 22 to June 29 at the Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue.

The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant chain plans to open its next location in Chicago in what will be the Syracuse-based company's first eatery outside the Northeast.

Harvey "the Snake" Mandel is a legend on the Chicago blues scene, having done time as a member of Canned Heat, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, and the Chicago Blues Reunion, as well as being celebrated as "the king of sustain" and the man who perfected hammer-on's while Eddie Van Halen still was in short pants.

Until I moved to Chicago, St. Patrick's Day wasn't a big event for me. But that first year, I was stunned by the site of what locals took for granted a boat slowly traveling the Chicago River depositing a rich green dye into the water.

A 17-year-old Chicago rapper has been charged with murder in connection to the fatal shooting of a livery driver in Wentworth Gardens last month.

An officer with the Chicago Police Department was injured when a fragment from a shooting entered his head on Sunday evening at approximately 8:45.

At age 80, retired Chicago physician and educator Dan Winship is getting a bittersweet last chance to teach about medicine - only this time he's the subject.

Ever wanted to know what Tantra is and how you might utilize it to enhance sexual intimacy? Karinna Kittles-Karsten shows you how it's done.

Viet Hoang and his friends, Lauren Li and Ken Hoang, huddled near each other, clinging to life in the frigid Chicago River on that January night, assuring one another they would not die this way.

Los Angeles record label Stones Throw Records is the subject of a new documentary, Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records .

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) March 09--When the Chicago Fire Department scuba team arrived on the south side of the Chicago River at Michigan Avenue just before 5 a.m. Dec. 17, fresh snow blanketed the ground, covering any footprints where a woman had slipped into the frigid water.

In this play'A A s most famous speech, the world'A A s a stage while we'A A re merely players.

Full Segment: He's played superheroes, villains, and even himself. But that's just the tip of the iceberg for Billy Zane, who joins us to talk life, rumors, and his new indie thriller "The Kill Hole."

Elizabeth Dozier, center, principal of Fenger High School, appears in a scene from the CNN documentary 'Chicagoland.'

Ah, St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. If you've already seen the river turn green and aren't heavily into the parade scene, pick a place to settle down instead and enjoy some Irish food and drink specials.

Responding to a call around 7:30 a.m. of a dog on the ice off the lake near North Avenue, Chicago firefighters spotted the pooch about 100 yards offshore.

There's been a lot of concern about that, with St Patrick's Day getting close and Chicagoland still in the deep-freeze.

It's close to Kat's birthday now, so it's only natural she would walk around gift-wrapped herself, with a pink bow right on top of her head.

CHICAGO, March 7 -- The Association of Forum of Chicagoland issued the following news release: Association Forum of Chicagoland's Board of Directors announced today that Christie A. Tarantino, FASAE, CAE, has resigned as president and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 15, 2014.