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Some of the greatest blues musicians of the 20th century made their mark in Chicago, Illinois.

DESPITE George Thorogood's crotchety hold on the past, the 58-year-old blues rocker and his Destroyers earn their "world's best bar band" title with this driving record that flips from rock 'n' roll to blues to boogie.

Cathy Ponton King hasn't just heard the greats. She has seen them - and played with them.

Aroots-music triple header comes to Lakewood BlueClaws stadium Thursday night in the form of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp and their respective bands.

ALSIP, Ill. a ' Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have spanned at least four years, authorities said yesterday.

ALSIP, Ill. - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday.

As many as 100 human bodies may have been dug up from a South suburban cemetery and the burial plots resold, investigators said Wednesday.

Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2009 with 183 to follow. The moon is waxing.

The blues world has lost its Queen. Koko Taylor , whose raw-edged, impassioned vocals won the hearts of fans worldwide for five decades, passed away at 80 on June 3rd of complications from gastrointestinal surgery.

If someone had told me five years ago that I would one day have a farm in South Africa, I probably would have laughed it off with a line from an old Willie Dixon blues song: "I look like a farmer, but I'm a lover." Yet somehow I went from keeping a handful of tomato plants on the windowsill of my apartment in Oslo to growing hundreds of heirloom ...