As the AIDS epidemic swept through the United States in the 1980s, news coverage tended to focus on New York City and San Francisco. Largely ignored was the Chicago story, […]
On the same day that Zac Bleicher took the stage of the Woodstock Opera House to conduct audience members on a virtual tour of Chicago’s Glasner Studio, the Woodstock Fine […]
Zac Bleicher, executive director of the Edgar Miller Legacy, said he hears a common response after giving a presentation about the 20th century Chicago artist.“Miller’s work is so compelling,” they […]
A polygamist, a thief, and a cheat, James Strang proclaimed himself divine king of earth, heaven, and the 78-square-mile Beaver Island, Mich., before he was assassinated in 1856.“The most infamous […]
Author Stephen Coss calls the 2020 cancellation of the NCAA March Madness tournament his “Harvard commencement moment.”“Come again?” you say.Several months after it began its deadly course through 1721 Boston, […]
When Liesl Olson delivers her presentation on the Chicago Avant-Garde at the Jan. 20 installment of the Creative Living Series, she will tell the stories of five women from the […]
Jacqueline Saper remembers the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 as “an absolutely chaotic time.”Just 17 years old when the uprising against the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Shah commenced in 1978, Saper was […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic seeped into the United States, the Chicago Tribune’s chief theater critic, Chris Jones, wrangled permission from his bosses to travel to New York to see the […]
Fine Arts Association plans four programs to run through April
Creative Living begins with webinar, crossed fingers for spring
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
