Over the years, we’ve all heard fellow Americans grousing about moving to Canada if an upcoming election doesn’t go their way. It’s not a bad idea, as Canada is known for friendly people and as a safe place to live and work. But leaving aside immigra

NEW YORK — “The Great Gatsby: A New Musical” still is what many people think of when they ponder a big Broadway night out: A familiar yet glamorous title from the Jazz Age; a star tenor like Jeremy Jordan; lush, string-heavy orchestrations; songs of

CHICAGO — Back in 2010, Eddie Izzard sold out the United Center in Chicago. The trailblazing British comedian told me at the time of a burning need to prove comics could fill arenas. I first wrote about Izzard in a solo show called “Dressed to Kill”

CHICAGO -- The list of rookie quarterback/wide receiver combinations that have taken the NFL by storm is pretty thin. In fact, it’s difficult to come up with many rookie pairings that have gone big in Year 1 beyond Andy Dalton and A.J. Green (Cincinn

NEW YORK — Sufjan Stevens’ hipper-than-thou music defies easy categorization. It goes by chamber pop, folk pop, electronica and numerous other descriptions inadequate for its lushly orchestrated romanticism, as topped by lyrics at once esoteric and e

CHICAGO — Northwestern University officials announced Monday that they have reached an agreement with students and faculty protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza, outlining a plan intended to allow demonstrations to continue while preventing the cha

Decades of research show that on average, children who grow up with parents who are not married and living together have worse achievement and behavioral and well-being outcomes than children of two-parent homes. Despite this evidence, rates of nonma

CHICAGO — The typically busy stretch of south Western Avenue outside St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel was quiet Monday morning. Instead of tractor trailers hauling freight, the thoroughfare was lined with scores of police vehicles from cities and tow

CHICAGO — In one of the most serious cases on the detention hearing call at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on a day earlier this month, a judge ordered a teen jailed pending trial after he was accused of shooting a woman in the neck during an a

CHICAGO — There’ll be more than one story to write about Sundance Institute x Chicago 2024, coming to town June 28-30. A sort of pop-up import, sponsored by the Chicago Film Office and city tourism bureau Choose Chicago, Sundance Institute x Chicago

In their effort to persuade politicians and the public that government support for a new domed stadium development on the city’s lakefront would be a sound investment, the Chicago Bears repeatedly tried to stress that taxpayers would not carry an ove

CHICAGO — Heads down and attentively scanning the ground, a small group of schoolchildren walked through an expanse of grass dotted with yellow dandelions and toward the concrete steps leading to Lake Michigan. Andrew Scarpelli, a biologist, ambassad

BOSTON — Chicago Cubs left-hander Jordan Wicks knows he must be smart early in the season. It doesn’t make the current situation any less frustrating for Wicks, who was put on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a left forearm strain. Wicks becomes t

CHICAGO — More than 200 police officers, relatives and members of the public stood in line Sunday outside Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn waiting for Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca’s visitation services to begin. Huesca, 30, was shot and fata

Pedro Grifol had a good night of sleep Saturday, relatively speaking, after the Chicago White Sox’s walk-off win over the Tampa Bay Rays. “I love winning,” the Sox manager said Sunday morning. “I don’t sleep much anyways, but absolutely. This is what

BOSTON — Chicago Cubs third baseman Christopher Morel’s all-out effort to snag a popup down the left-field line at Fenway Park nearly ended in disaster. Morel’s pursuit of a shallow fly ball off the bat of Red Sox center fielder Jarren Duran in the b

NEW YORK — Filled with sad-sack characters living lives of soul-sucking boredom, Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” ain’t ever a walk in the park to produce or, for that matter, to watch. Still, the new Lincoln Center production from the typically reliabl

CHICAGO — Caleb Williams arrived at Halas Hall on Friday, his first full day as the new Chicago Bears quarterback, with the same level of excitement and self-assuredness he has been channeling through most of his football life. Williams is nothing if

CHICAGO — Just as the tulips blooming around Chicago every spring bring the promise of summer, this year’s NFL draft seemed to bring the promise of change for Bears fans. As the saying goes, hope springs eternal. Thursday night while the front office

A little delirious and a lot of serious, witty, stylish fun, “Challengers” plays a beautiful game of Canadian doubles with its three main characters, on and off the court. It’s a purely enjoyable romantic drama, and the one thing people seem to agree

NEW YORK — Playwright Paula Vogel has written a deeply personal play about life with one’s mother, and her late mom, Phyllis Rita, would surely have been delighted to have her Broadway appearance played by no less than Jessica Lange, an actress fully

On Monday afternoon, New York’s Columbia University looked like a military installation, not one of the most storied institutions of learning in the United States. The campus gates, festooned with balloons designed to “welcome” newly admitted student

CHICAGO — Dexter Reed was shot 13 times by Chicago police officers during a fatal March traffic stop that left one of the officers shot in the wrist, authorities found. The Cook County medical examiner’s office released Reed’s autopsy and toxicologic

DETROIT — It’s official: Caleb Williams is a Chicago Bear as the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. Football’s worst-kept secret became public a few minutes after 7 p.m. CDT Thursday when the Bears, from their draft room at team headquarters in Lake Forest

Burning coal to generate electricity is rapidly declining in the United States. President Joe Biden’s administration moved Thursday to speed up the demise of the climate-changing, lung-damaging fossil fuel while attempting to ease the transition to c

CHICAGO — The creative life can be, to borrow some words from the musical “Annie,” a “hard knock life,” or, as writer Maya Angelou once put it more gently, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Few people I know have mor

Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family b