Stuff you can walk to, stuff that’s free, stuff that won’t empty your wallet:
Evanston’s Super Sidewalk Sale – Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Main Street Station, Chicago/Dempster, Downtown Evanston, and Central Street. More than 200 Evanston merchants will offer bargains on summer inventory, featuring the ideal mix of independent shops and…
Will Gary, Ind. become the new Graceland? See the slideshow of 2300 Jackson St.
Despite new ownership and a raft of good intentions, the future of Chicago’s grandest movie palace still remains up in the air.
By MARK LANGLOIS
Correspondent
Eighty years ago on Nov. 1, 1929, two days after New York stock market crashed, the official groundbreaking ceremony for Mundelein College took place at 1023 W. Sheridan Road in Rogers Park. Even though the Great Depression had begun, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary opened…
Part 2 of “Edgewater and ‘The Public Enemy.’” Hollywood screenwriter John Bright’s caustic worldview first expressed itself at Senn High School, as well as the early stirrings of his literary vocaiton.
How the nocturnal adventures of a couple of guys from Edgewater enriched their racy Hollywood screenplays about Chicago hoodlums, including the famous James Cagney film The Public Enemy.
“It’s got a nice beat and you can dance to it” — Part 2 of “Dutch’s Treats” recounts Near North Side-music man Dutch Wenzlaff’s road to American Bandstand, his brush with the Hump and his comeback with the wistful jazz ballad “Foggy Night.”
