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Wrigleyville goes all out with Holiday Spirit featuring decorated pop-up bars and family fun including the “Wrigleyville Winter Wonderland” at the corner of Roscoe and Clark Streets put on by The Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce featuring four heated geodesic domes, with unique, fun and interactive …
This is an interesting film to video of a train ride from Chicago to Kenosha from the 1920’s evidently unearthed from the Huntly Film Archives. Film equipment was not exactly portable in at this time so this is something of a treasure to see riders …
We had a great time visiting the Winter WonderFest at Navy Pier. Though it is geared primarily toward the little ones there is plenty of fun for the whole family. Essentially this is an indoor carnival. The brochure claims “thrills without the chills.” A chance …
This popular play by Will Kern has been trotted out by several companies since its debut in the nineteen- nineties and was even made into a movie in 1998. “Hellcab” is comprised of a number of vignettes all taking place within the confines of a …
Photographer and London native Abigail Zoe Martin moved from Madrid to Chicago with her family about three years ago. A bit at loose ends as to what she should do, the portrait photographer decided to turn her camera toward the common and not so common …
If you’re ready to get into the Christmas spirit you can’t do much better than the American Blues Theater’s staged radio show version of Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In this production, the theater is set up to give the illusion that you …
For many, the place they have lived and raised a family is more than an assembly of bricks it is a repository of memories and the physical manifestation of a life’s work. When it comes time to consider leaving it behind there are more considerations …
At its core, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard is a comedic drawing room mystery, but it is also a thought-provoking exploration of humanity through concepts of truth, chaos versus order, discovery and rediscovery, the meaning of time, and our desire to improve on an already …
Manual Cinema’s homage to the 100th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic “Frankenstein” is a singular theatrical experience that mixes live action, silhouettes, puppets, shadow puppetry, masks, video, slide projection and all manner of theatrical techniques, ancient and modern to create a captivating monochromatic video …
Headliner Erica Rhodes has appeared on Modern Family and Veep. She was making her way back to Los Angeles through Chicago after working the comedy club Penguin’s and a casino bar in Iowa over the weekend. The lithe thirty something wearing a corduroy jeans jacket …
It is the dawn of the civil rights movement, times are changing, President JFK has just been assassinated. Caroline is recently divorced, has three girls at home and a grown son in Vietnam. To make matters worse she is under employed and feeling like she …
While investigating the net to see what is happening in Chicago this week I was nearly overwhelmed by the number of fan videos for BTS at the United Center. It seems the K-pop (Korean Pop Music) boy band from South Korea has been rocking the …
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