‘Home Alone’ Star Macaulay Culkin Delights Fans With Nostalgic Screening and Q&A
In Chicago, where the suburbs served as locations, a showing of the film featured an appearance by the star. Delighted fans made their devotion known.
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Read Your Way Around Chicago
Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.
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The Curious Case of Nora Holt, a Pioneer of Black Classical Music and Jazz
Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs.
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Ella Jenkins, Musician Who Found an Audience in Children, Dies at 100
Performing and recording, she transformed what was seen as a marginal genre in the music industry into a celebration of shared humanity.