Mitch Dudek

Chicago actor Matt DeCaro never took being a working actor for granted. Last week, before an unusually early-in-the-day staging of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” at the Goodman Theatre, artistic director Susan Booth bumped into DeCaro as she e... See more

Opening weekend baseball games for the Chicago Snowballs, the city’s newest co-ed baseball team offering a style of play popularized by the Savannah Bananas, have been canceled. The two games, scheduled for May 2 and 3 at Kerry Wood Cubs Field in Roscoe V... See more

Stained-glass artist Larry Zgoda loved the unusual, whimsical and wacky. While exploring Old Town in the early 1980s, he was drawn to several buildings, such as Carl Street Studios and the Walter Guest Apartments, that boasted murals, woodcarvings, staine... See more

Arthur Loevy, an attorney and labor leader who came out of retirement to work with his son at Loevy & Loevy, a powerhouse in wrongful convictions and police misconduct litigation, died Saturdayafter suffering a brain bleed in his sleep, family said. H... See more

In a giant coat that nearly swallowed her four-foot-something frame, and holding a red stop sign that seemed half her size, LaTanya Long-Sullivan often received hugs from kids and parents, and pretty much any other regular passerby, before shepherding the... See more