Although he wasn’t blind, he sang in three different gospel groups known as the Blind Boys before making a splash on the R&B and pop charts.

Children who grew up in the Chicago area had access to an abundance of television programs that were created here just for them.

He was sworn in three days later by Mayor Richard J. Daley at age 25, and became the second youngest alderman in city history. The only person to sit on City Council at a younger age was Col. Robert R ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier is joined by Ward Miller, Executive Director of Preservation Chicago, to discuss the group’s annual list of Chicago’s most endangered historic structures. Among the ...

Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...