It was 1969 and the band, then known as Chicago Transit Authority, was turning heads with a style that infused a dynamic horn ...

A local rapper is stepping up to help a mom and her two kids after they were brutally attacked by a group of children on the ...

Lil Zay Osama unveils YN TAPE, a 15-track project featuring Chicago's rising drill artists Pretty Liyah, Fastmoney Ant, and Star Bandz.

Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into ...

Mike Stephen talks to Al Krockey, the author of a new book about coming of age in the 1960s and 70s in Skokie and Chicago called Straight Outta Skokie, and then learns about the plans Creative ...

In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" tunes spread online. Its ...

Stars from Andrew Scott to Katherine Moennig and Chris Briney have been enlisted to moan, groan and narrate steamy stories ...

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own ...

After clips of a Chicago mother being attacked by students sparked outrage, police announced a new development that many have been waiting for. Update: Dec. 22 at 2:31 p.m. The Root previously ...