“We’ve got these huge, major things in Chicago. Like people say White Sox, people say deep dish pizza … footwork is one of those things,” said Brandon K. Calhoun, member of The Era footwork crew and ...

Very early in Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut talks about living in Chicago after World War II. “While I was studying to be an anthropologist [at the University of Chicago],” he remembers, “I was ...

An animated projection of Chicago footwork takes over a massive downtown building. An animated projection of Chicago footwork takes over a massive downtown building. Arts correspondent Angel Idowu has ...

The reigning sound of rap in Chicago—with toughly detached deliveries and muddy beats as big as the Sears Tower—bears little obvious resemblance to the sound of just a few years ago, in part because ...

Footnote, Part 1: The LaSalle Banks Chicago Marathon goes off at 7:45 a.m. Sunday in Grant Park, with the final miles looping back to the park via the southern portion of Lake Shore Drive. You can get ...

MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...