Cartoons and live music combine when instrumental sextet The Queen's Cartoonists kicks off its 21-city tour at the Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg on Saturday, October 28. The ensemble will debut a new program, "The International...

Crowned "Chicago's Cabaret Queen" by the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, WGN Radio, Skyline and BroadwayWorld.com, the legendary Denise Tomasello returns for Davenport's 25th Anniversary celebration as one of its all-star headliners. Chicago's Cabaret Q...

The 61-mile Illinois Prairie Path all started with a letter and a dream. The late May Theilgaard Watts, a naturalist at the Morton Arboretum, envisioned a nature trail along the old Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway. "If we have the courage and foresi...

BY NOW, ANYONE WHO CARES knows that Bears rookie Tyson Bagent threw for 17,034 yards and 159 touchdowns in five seasons at D-II Shepherd University in West Virginia. Those are lofty numbers, even if the opposition was nothing more than the Harper 2 ...

It was standing-room only at Naperville's Municipal Center recently when Naperville Preservation Inc. presented its architectural survey of two early post-World War II neighborhoods: the East Highlands and River Haven Estates. Although adjacent to e...

Cantigny, in partnership with the League of Women Voters, invites the public to their next Civic Awareness Series program on Thursday, Oct. 12. Guest speaker David Hiller will discuss a recent report about distrust in the election process. The f...

PRIME-POUNCE DICK BUTKUS playing for head coach George Allen could have forever changed the trajectory of the Chicago Bears. In the spring of 1983, Allen had been dusted from the NFL and was coaching the first-year Chicago Blitz of the United States...

Arlington Heights native, award-winning vocalist, Broadway star, and recording artist, Karen Mason, returns in concert to celebrate Chicago's premier cabaret Davenport's 25th anniversary. Karen was the first performer to headline the club when it op...

Chicago opera fans have a lot to be excited about this season. There are plenty of starry singers and conductors making their debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, while all of the works in Chicago Opera Theater's 50th anniversary season are recei...