Best of 2025: Top 10 performances on Chicago stages this year

Beginning with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Lyric and including Steppenwolf’s Caroline Neff as well as Ryan Hake as the lead of “Angels in America.” ...

104-year-old World War II vet excited to perform national anthem for Islanders-Rangers game

The Floral Park super-senior saxophonist and World War II Army veteran will be performing the national anthem for the ...

"We played it for our label and management and they told us it would end our career": The story of the glam metal classic inspired by an unfaithful exotic dancer

Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into ...
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Public duet of Careless Whisper with a saxophonist

While I was playing “Careless Whisper” in public, someone approached me with a saxophone — and we turned it into a ...
Chalkbeat

Chicago teacher Sharon Overton prepares students to perform ‘The Wiz’ before the holiday break

Special education and theater teacher Sharon Toi Overton is currently working overtime to get her students at Ray Graham ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Bird watchers perch at Montrose Beach as snowy owls make early Chicago appearance

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FOX 32

Despite mayday call, no injuries in major house fire on Chicago’s South Side

CHICAGO - A large house fire on Chicago’s South Side drew a massive emergency response Friday evening. What we know: The fire broke out shortly after 5 p.m. at a home near 82nd Street and Lafayette ...
WBEZ

Chicago kicks off snow season with record number of 311 calls over uncleared sidewalks, roads

The prelude to winter has pummeled Chicago with more snow this early than the city has seen in nearly 50 years, and people are slipping and sliding their way through uncleared sidewalks and streets.
Yahoo! Sports

6 takeaways from Cleveland’s coordinators about the Bears

The Cleveland Browns will play their penultimate road game of the season on Sunday against the Chicago Bears. Cleveland is coming off a loss to the one-win Tennessee Titans in a game where the offense ...
The College Fix

Chicago college fires staffer after saying ICE agents should be ‘shot and wiped out’

A former college staffer’s firing after saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should be “shot and wiped out” raises free speech concerns, a campus legal expert told The College Fix. The ...
CBS News

Youth organizations call for Chicago to keep corporate head tax in budget plan

A group of organizations that offer summer jobs to young people is encouraging city leaders to keep the proposed corporate head tax in next year's city budget, as proposed by Chicago Mayor Brandon ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Rosemont officials release 911 calls from incident involving 'American Pie' actress Tara Reid

Officers found Reid unresponsive in the hallway of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel near Chicago O'Hare International Airport last month. In one call, a 911 dispatcher can be heard saying, "Your patient ...