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What would Dick Butkus say about Walter Eckersall who, at 5'6" and 135 pounds, give or take, was regarded as our greatest football player? He also started the Golden Gloves and drank with Ring Lardner. Read all about it in Chris Serb's new book. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/c...
Column: Was tiny Walter Eckersall the city’s greatest football player?
“Eckie: Walter Eckersall and the Rise of Chicago Sports” is a new book about a long-forgotten player who predates the Bears.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
What would Dick Butkus say about Walter Eckersall who, at 5'6" and 135 pounds, give or take, was regarded as our greatest football player? He also started the Golden Gloves and drank with Ring Lardner. Read all about it in Chris Serb's new book. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/c...
First half alternative, @KoganAfterHours 5:30-7 pm Sunday
@wgnradio.bsky.social Kathleen and Beth Rooney on book “Leaf Town Forever”; @paulmarinaro.bsky.social on CD, “Mood Ellington,” and release concerts @LiveAtStudio5; Marc Smith on new show, “Shards of Me and My…,” Jan. 21-25
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@wgnradio.bsky.social Kathleen and Beth Rooney on book “Leaf Town Forever”; @paulmarinaro.bsky.social on CD, “Mood Ellington,” and release concerts @LiveAtStudio5; Marc Smith on new show, “Shards of Me and My…,” Jan. 21-25
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January 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
First half alternative, @KoganAfterHours 5:30-7 pm Sunday
@wgnradio.bsky.social Kathleen and Beth Rooney on book “Leaf Town Forever”; @paulmarinaro.bsky.social on CD, “Mood Ellington,” and release concerts @LiveAtStudio5; Marc Smith on new show, “Shards of Me and My…,” Jan. 21-25
@kimballart
@wgnradio.bsky.social Kathleen and Beth Rooney on book “Leaf Town Forever”; @paulmarinaro.bsky.social on CD, “Mood Ellington,” and release concerts @LiveAtStudio5; Marc Smith on new show, “Shards of Me and My…,” Jan. 21-25
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Bobby Lewis has been making music for 80 years and as he celebrates his 90 birthday with concerts at Winters, he is as fresh and exciting as ever, maybe even more so. Admire and enjoy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/14/b...
Column: Defying the calendar and playing on, jazzman Bobby Lewis is turning 90
As you know if you ever saw him in a nightclub or plan to see him at Winter’s Jazz Club, Bobby Lewis is defying the calendar.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Bobby Lewis has been making music for 80 years and as he celebrates his 90 birthday with concerts at Winters, he is as fresh and exciting as ever, maybe even more so. Admire and enjoy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/14/b...
Bobby Lewis has been making music for 80 years and as he celebrates his 90 birthday with concerts at Winters, he is as fresh and exciting as ever, maybe even more so. Admire and enjoy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/14/b...
Column: Defying the calendar and playing on, jazzman Bobby Lewis is turning 90
As you know if you ever saw him in a nightclub or plan to see him at Winter’s Jazz Club, Bobby Lewis is defying the calendar.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Bobby Lewis has been making music for 80 years and as he celebrates his 90 birthday with concerts at Winters, he is as fresh and exciting as ever, maybe even more so. Admire and enjoy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/14/b...
Two very different people--comic Chevy "SNL" Chase and investigative reporter/writer Seymour "My Lai" Hersh (with deep Chicago roots)--get the TV documentaries they deserve and give viewers deep insights. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/13/c...
Column: Chevy Chase and Seymour Hersh get the documentaries they deserve
A look at two new documentaries: “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” about Chevy Chase and “Cover-Up” about Seymour Hersh.
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January 13, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Two very different people--comic Chevy "SNL" Chase and investigative reporter/writer Seymour "My Lai" Hersh (with deep Chicago roots)--get the TV documentaries they deserve and give viewers deep insights. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/13/c...
Two very different people--comic Chevy "SNL" Chase and investigative reporter/writer Seymour "My Lai" Hersh (with deep Chicago roots)--get the TV documentaries they deserve and give viewers deep insights. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/13/c...
Column: Chevy Chase and Seymour Hersh get the documentaries they deserve
A look at two new documentaries: “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” about Chevy Chase and “Cover-Up” about Seymour Hersh.
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January 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Two very different people--comic Chevy "SNL" Chase and investigative reporter/writer Seymour "My Lai" Hersh (with deep Chicago roots)--get the TV documentaries they deserve and give viewers deep insights. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/13/c...
Singer Josie Falbo was a child of Taylor Street and had, critic Neil Tesser says, "a beautiful voice, angelic at the top of her range, but earthy too...she could sing pretty much anything, from rock n’ roll in her youth to the whole jazz songbook. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/07/j...
In appreciation: Chicago singer Josie Falbo had a voice bigger than her fame
Jazz singer Josie Falbo died on Jan. 1 after a year-long fight with cancer. She was 82 and had just released a new album.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Singer Josie Falbo was a child of Taylor Street and had, critic Neil Tesser says, "a beautiful voice, angelic at the top of her range, but earthy too...she could sing pretty much anything, from rock n’ roll in her youth to the whole jazz songbook. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/07/j...
Yes, it's a list of many of the people that we lost in 2025. But no tears. Explore the lives of these artists, actors, an astronaut and others. Their lives and what they created can enrich your new year. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/23/w...
Who We Lost in 2025: Actors to astronauts, remembering those departed in this last year
George Wendt. Shirley Mordine. The Royal George. Remembering some of the people, places and events that had been a part of this city.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yes, it's a list of many of the people that we lost in 2025. But no tears. Explore the lives of these artists, actors, an astronaut and others. Their lives and what they created can enrich your new year. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/23/w...
Her early support and encouragement helped fuel Hugh Hefner’s ambitions. How admirable that this woman defined herself away from the glare of fame, raising two children and living 99 lively years. And that smile! www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/m...
Millie Hefner Gunn, first wife of Hugh Hefner and mother to Christie, dies at 99
She helped support and shape the magazine that would become Playboy Enterprises, but never tried to capitalize on Hugh Hefner’s subsequent fame after their divorce in 1959.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Her early support and encouragement helped fuel Hugh Hefner’s ambitions. How admirable that this woman defined herself away from the glare of fame, raising two children and living 99 lively years. And that smile! www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/m...
Final @KoganAfterHours of 2025, Sunday 5-7 pm @WGNRadio, brings you sisters Kathleen and Beth Rooney on their book, “Leaf Town Forever”; Paul Barosse and Victoria Zielinski on new show, "Quick! Before We're Cancelled!" @Studio5, and Father John Cusick on the meaning of Christmas.
December 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Final @KoganAfterHours of 2025, Sunday 5-7 pm @WGNRadio, brings you sisters Kathleen and Beth Rooney on their book, “Leaf Town Forever”; Paul Barosse and Victoria Zielinski on new show, "Quick! Before We're Cancelled!" @Studio5, and Father John Cusick on the meaning of Christmas.
Nick Digilio fell in love with movies as a kid and he's still in the business to telling you about them, on his podcast and in a lively new book. Read all about it...and him, right here or ink on paper in the Sunday Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/n...
Column: Nick Digilio is surviving the movie critic world and has ’40 Films’ to prove it
This memoir of sorts, published by Chicago’s Eckhartz Press, takes us through years of his career and introduces us to dozens of movies along the way.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nick Digilio fell in love with movies as a kid and he's still in the business to telling you about them, on his podcast and in a lively new book. Read all about it...and him, right here or ink on paper in the Sunday Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nick Digilio fell in love with movies as a kid and he's still in the business to telling you about them, on his podcast and in a lively new book. Read all about it...and him, right here or ink on paper in the Sunday Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/n...
Column: Nick Digilio is surviving the movie critic world and has ’40 Films’ to prove it
This memoir of sorts, published by Chicago’s Eckhartz Press, takes us through years of his career and introduces us to dozens of movies along the way.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Nick Digilio fell in love with movies as a kid and he's still in the business to telling you about them, on his podcast and in a lively new book. Read all about it...and him, right here or ink on paper in the Sunday Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/n...
John Corkery, a Chicago attorney and 'performer at heart,' dies at 82. Whenever you saw him, at O'Rourke's, the Old Town Ale House or elsewhere, you were in for a cheerful, smart and engaging conversation. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/j...
John Corkery, a Chicago attorney and ‘performer at heart,’ dies at 82
Corkery’s creative spark was on display for more than three decades as one of the writers and performers in the Chicago Bar Association’s “Christmas Spirits” show.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
John Corkery, a Chicago attorney and 'performer at heart,' dies at 82. Whenever you saw him, at O'Rourke's, the Old Town Ale House or elsewhere, you were in for a cheerful, smart and engaging conversation. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/j...
@KoganAfterHours 5-6:30 pm Sunday @WGNRadio brings you Vincent Johnson on his new book, “Illustrious: The Best High School Basketball Gyms in Illinois” and Chris Serb on his “ECKIE: Walter Eckersall and the Rise of Chicago Sports.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@KoganAfterHours 5-6:30 pm Sunday @WGNRadio brings you Vincent Johnson on his new book, “Illustrious: The Best High School Basketball Gyms in Illinois” and Chris Serb on his “ECKIE: Walter Eckersall and the Rise of Chicago Sports.”
A good man gone. Bruce Dold, former Chicago Tribune editor and 'consummate newspaperman,' dies at 70. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/b...
Bruce Dold, former Chicago Tribune editor and ‘consummate newspaperman,’ dies at 70
Bruce Dold juggled journalism and business interests in a dual editor-publisher role as the industry grappled with declining revenue and downsizing.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A good man gone. Bruce Dold, former Chicago Tribune editor and 'consummate newspaperman,' dies at 70. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/b...
The snow comes and @KoganAfterHours is back for an hour Sunday 6-7 p.m. on wgnradio.com or WGN AM720 with me, Candace Jordan on holiday parties, events, celebrations, and some songs. @CandidCandace
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The snow comes and @KoganAfterHours is back for an hour Sunday 6-7 p.m. on wgnradio.com or WGN AM720 with me, Candace Jordan on holiday parties, events, celebrations, and some songs. @CandidCandace
The American Writers Museum has a lively new exhibition. 'American Prophets,' exploring how a wide range of writers--Oscar Brown Jr. to Bono, Malcolm X, Flannery O’Connor and many more--expressed theirs feeling about religion and spirituality www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/r...
Column: In ‘American Prophets,’ how writers feel about religion and spirituality
A new exhibit at American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has the words of Flannery O’Connor, Malcolm X, Harold Ramis and others about how they felt about religion and spirituality.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The American Writers Museum has a lively new exhibition. 'American Prophets,' exploring how a wide range of writers--Oscar Brown Jr. to Bono, Malcolm X, Flannery O’Connor and many more--expressed theirs feeling about religion and spirituality www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/r...
The American Writers Museum has a lively new exhibition. 'American Prophets,' exploring how a wide range of writers--Oscar Brown Jr. to Bono, Malcolm X, Flannery O’Connor and many more--expressed theirs feeling about religion and spirituality www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/r...
Column: In ‘American Prophets,’ how writers feel about religion and spirituality
A new exhibit at American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has the words of Flannery O’Connor, Malcolm X, Harold Ramis and others about how they felt about religion and spirituality.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The American Writers Museum has a lively new exhibition. 'American Prophets,' exploring how a wide range of writers--Oscar Brown Jr. to Bono, Malcolm X, Flannery O’Connor and many more--expressed theirs feeling about religion and spirituality www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/r...
When books went to war, more than 120 million, some carried by my dad, Herman, a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant and a combat correspondent who fought in and reported from battles at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/f...
Column: How little books, millions of them, helped in Word War II
The tale of how more than 120 million books found their way to WWII soldiers came rushing back with the latest release from Field Notes.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When books went to war, more than 120 million, some carried by my dad, Herman, a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant and a combat correspondent who fought in and reported from battles at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/f...
Go ahead and hate the Packers, but you'll love learning about the man who was that team. 'Curly' Lambeau, in Herb Gould's new book, may have been a complex guy and "consummate liar" but as George Halas said, “Without him, pro football simply wouldn’t exist.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/p...
Column: Uncovering the mysteries of the Packers’ ‘Curly’ Lambeau
Former Chicago sportswriter Herb Gould has written “Lambeau: The Epic Life of Earl ‘Curly’ Lambeau, The Man Who Invented the Green Bay Packers.”
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November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Go ahead and hate the Packers, but you'll love learning about the man who was that team. 'Curly' Lambeau, in Herb Gould's new book, may have been a complex guy and "consummate liar" but as George Halas said, “Without him, pro football simply wouldn’t exist.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/p...
The remarkable Ken Burns and his documentary army deliver a tale of blood, courage and hope in 'The American Revolution,' six parts starting Sunday on WTTW. He calls it “the most significant event in human history since the birth of Christ.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
Column: Ken Burns documentary explores the blood, courage and hope of ‘The American Revolution’
Ken Burns is back with “The American Revolution,” a six-part, roughly 12-hour documentary.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The remarkable Ken Burns and his documentary army deliver a tale of blood, courage and hope in 'The American Revolution,' six parts starting Sunday on WTTW. He calls it “the most significant event in human history since the birth of Christ.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
A native Southwest Sider with stories to tell, Barry Pearce delivers nine of them in 'The Plan of Chicago,' his first collection, filled with a lively cast of characters and a firm grasp of the city he knows and loves. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/c...
Column: Barry Pearce’s stories in ‘The Plan of Chicago’ give us hope about this city
The author and Tribune literary award winner has written a collection of short fiction reflecting on many different sides of life in Chicago.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A native Southwest Sider with stories to tell, Barry Pearce delivers nine of them in 'The Plan of Chicago,' his first collection, filled with a lively cast of characters and a firm grasp of the city he knows and loves. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/c...
@KoganAfterHours back on radio: 5:30-7 p.m. Sunday @WGNRadio brings you author Barry Pearce, Algren Award Winner-2019, out with new and first collection, “The Plan of Chicago”; music from Josie Falbo's new CD “Kickin’ It.’
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@KoganAfterHours back on radio: 5:30-7 p.m. Sunday @WGNRadio brings you author Barry Pearce, Algren Award Winner-2019, out with new and first collection, “The Plan of Chicago”; music from Josie Falbo's new CD “Kickin’ It.’
The most interesting person you will "meet" today, or this week, or this year, is Jun Fujita, poet and photographer of many of the city's most famous events (Eastland disaster, St. Valentines Day murders) and notable people (Al Capone). www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/c...
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The most interesting person you will "meet" today, or this week, or this year, is Jun Fujita, poet and photographer of many of the city's most famous events (Eastland disaster, St. Valentines Day murders) and notable people (Al Capone). www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/c...
Who cares what you are wearing for Halloween? What costume will your dog or cat or pet pig have on for the holiday? Remembering a dog as a devil and a ‘Bark to the Future’ costume with a little DeLorean car. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/c...
Column: When the animals come out in their Halloween costumes
The 38th Annual Doggy and Kitty Halloween Party and Costume Parade held in the park to the east of the Museum of Contemporary Art saw hundreds of animals dress up for the occasion.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Who cares what you are wearing for Halloween? What costume will your dog or cat or pet pig have on for the holiday? Remembering a dog as a devil and a ‘Bark to the Future’ costume with a little DeLorean car. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/c...