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Chicago’s premier footrace, now called the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, celebrates its 25th anniversary and 25th running Oct. 13. This is the 19th installment of a series catching up with the race’s ...

During the summer of 1996, Scott Albert Johnson was covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in a highly unconventional manner for the era on his website, Publius ’96: A Virtual Walk ...

The last time Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden was a U.S. senator who gave a nine-minute speech praising President Bill Clinton’s leadership in securing a tough new ...

Chicago is always changing: the people, the food, the skyline. So with the Democratic National Convention coming to town (as you may have heard), how much has changed since the last time we hosted a ...

Who would’ve thought that this kid on stage with a local Chicago MC, Phenom, would go on to achieve mutiple Grammy Awards, Billboard Awards, #1 Albums, Platinum plaques and more, on the way to ...

This year's convention is being held on the same dates as the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago -- Aug. 26-29. The podium at the Democratic convention is 28 feet tall -- one foot taller ...

Because the revival of “Chicago” is so wildly entertaining, I’m hesitant to call it important always an ugly adjective for a reviewer to use but I’m afraid I must. This revival is based on the concert ...