I have always wanted to see The Threepenny Opera. When I was in junior high about 60 years ago, I won a jitterbug contest at someone's birthday party and received the 45-rpm record of Bobby Darrin's version of "Mack the Knife."

The 1970s was a decade of firsts in terms of opening up privately owned architectural treasures as local fundraisers. 

Becoming a playwright is not the easiest path. But when a year-long opportunity comes along to develop a script, with input from peers and theater mavens, that path gets a bit smoother. 

This presentation is a reissue of 2016 reporting by the Curious City project at WBEZ. Interested in more answers to questions about Chicago, the region, and its people? Subscribe to the Curious City podcast.

I know sometimes folks feel a tiny quiver of disappointment when they discover the show they are going to see has only one performer.

It was literally standing room only at Ald. Chris Taliaferro's (29th) March 20 community meeting on the redevelopment plans for the Chicago portion of the former North/Harlem Sears site. 

Less than a year after breaking ground in April 2018, the Oak Park location for local non-profit New Moms is complete. 

In Oak Park several home-grown real estate firms recently joined forces with larger, national firms to increase their market prowess. 

I cannot pinpoint the moment I knew I would become a writer. It seems writing has always been with me — like an imaginary friend, or a shadow.

One hundred years, embodied through objects donated to the Economy Shop is the theme of the new exhibit "Donations Through the Decades, Shopping Through the Century" at the Historical Society's Oak Park River Forest Museum.