How alien is rail travel to the average American? In an age of instant everything, how relevant is the passenger train? Headed to San Francisco from Chicago, with stops in Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, Vegas and Yosemite, I was about to find out. Union Station may be one of a handful of truly grand passenger …
At the tail end of every summer for the past 39 years, a swarm of people descent on Grant Park for three days to listen to a captivating style of music; jazz. They are as diverse as the various forms of jazz itself. They are young and single, old and weathered. They push strollers and …
The world of performance is precarious, unpredictable and erratic. And it encompasses many more people than just those you see on the stage. If you work in that world as an actor, dancer, stagehand, or director; your next gig is never guaranteed and your livelihood rarely secure. Spurred by the 2015 death of local …
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There’s something about the far North Shore that makes you think Glencoe up is nothing but a big gated community. It looks and feels so exclusive. So “happy few”. And then there’s Highwood, Highland Parks slightly humbler neighbor just above it. You don’t hear about Highwood. You don’t think about Highwood. When considering the culinary …