This season’s early snowfall shoveling might remind some of a relentless winter from almost 50 years ago when Chicago experienced its most snow ever: almost 90 inches of it.

More than 40 years after noisy no-wave band Bag People broke up, Drag City released a collection of their blistering ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, who has died aged 78, was a singer with the Grateful Dead during the 1970s; she mostly sang backing ...

Most people aren't aware these sequels to box office hits even exist, though some of them are surprisingly decent on their ...

For New Year’s Eve revelers seeking music events to ring in 2026, two new parties headline the calendar in Indianapolis.

Today is Monday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2025 with 23 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery.

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 13: In 1835, Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal clergyman and hymn writer, was born. Though he produced 10 volumes of sermons, he is better remembered as the author of ...

1972: Forty-five people died when a United Airlines jet crashed into bungalows on West 70th Place while approaching Chicago’s ...

Randy Meisner liked the success but not the spotlight. That led him to leaving The Eagles, replaced in 1977 by Timothy B.

Joseph Byrd, leader of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the United States of America, died in November at the age of 87.