You have a baby. You rock-a-baby. Stare at and feed a baby. Then what? At some point, every parent comes to the realization that their child, the center of their world, needs more socialization than what they can provide. It is at that point that ...

Antique bandits Try your luck at finding vintage “one-armed bandits” when The Chicagoland Antique Advertising, Slot-Machine & Jukebox Show returns this weekend to the Pheasant Run Resort and Convention Center, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. $7 ...

The Monkees didn’t grace our television screens for more than two seasons, but the music generated by the four young men mimicking the Beatles and their movies has pretty much stood the test of time. That’s the way Arcada Theatre owner Ron Onesti se...

Shatner's one-man show With 50-plus years in the public eye, there's not much of William Shatner's world left unknown. Shatner, who gave life to iconic television characters like Capt. James T. Kirk in “Star Trek,” the eponymous “T.J. Hooker” ...

When GOP Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, of Wheaton, calls Eric Cantor "leader" at news conferences and delegation meetings, the reverence is clear in his voice. Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, of Evanston, displays more disdain, describi...

Big Time Rush The hockey-to-boy-band guys of Nickelodeon's hit TV series “Big Time Rush” perform in concert tonight at the Akoo Theatre at Rosemont, 5400 N. River Road, Rosemont. $23-$47.50. (800) 745-3000 or rosemonttheatre.com. 7 p.m. Friday,...

When Shirley Rochford came out to Cary’s Spring Beach area from Chicago to attend a family picnic, she noticed a little house on the market that she liked. She and her husband Bill Boetsch bought it in 1962. Jack Schaffer moved from Mount Prospect ...

The Bartlett girls basketball program will be hosting its third annual Remembering Kay Yow Pink Night on Tuesday when the Hawks entertain District U-46 rival South Elgin. The event will honor survivors and remember those who have lost their battle w...

The Bartlett girls basketball program will be hosting its third annual Remembering Kay Yow Pink Night on Tuesday when the Hawks entertain District U-46 rival South Elgin. The event will honor survivors and remember those who have lost their battle w...

Feel 'Enchanted' Baroque composers like Handel, Vivaldi and Rameau get the “Mamma Mia!” treatment when The Metropolitan Opera screens a live HD simulcast of its new pastiche work “The Enchanted Island” starring such opera greats as Plácido Domi...