Rick Kogan

The new Playboy comes almost 72 years after the first. That was the creation of a Chicago copywriter/cartoonist named Hugh Hefner.

Column: To bet or not to bet? A Chicago sportswriter talks of the dangers of gambling

Earl Hardy had a dream to make a film about the streets that had been named in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The hosts of the long-running radio program know a lot about music and have been writing and talking about it for decades. But they never consider themselves the final word.

Column: Print lives! Want proof? Just check your mailbox this holiday season

“Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley” centers on the NBC broadcast that came to be known as the “’68 Comeback Special.”

Neighborhood residents gathered last Thursday at the firehouse off Michigan Avenue for an annual neighborhood tradition.

Column: New show ‘Poochie & Pang Eat Chicago’ stars a lively duo and local food

Eric Simonson, once an active presence on local theater stages, never expected the email that came to him in California a couple of years ago. It was from Steppenwolf’s casting director, J.C. Cleme…

On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.”