“You guys in Chicago are used to improv,” sneered the acidic Ben Bailey on Friday night at the opening of UP, the new comedy club at the Second City. “You can smell written material like a pack of hound dogs. You want to hunt it down.... 

We think we know what happened on the sticky-hot night of June 27, 1969, at a Greenwich Village bar known as the Stonewall Inn. A weary drag queen finally kicked a nasty cop, the story usually goes, leading to riots in the streets, a line in the sand... 

Preservation Hall jazzes the Trey McIntyre Project Old institutions stay young by taking risks, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band took a sizable one when it partnered with the Trey McIntyre Project dancers at Symphony Center on Friday night. Read... 

It was hard to tell that 16 years had passed between albums with The Jayhawks’ two principal songwriters when considering their classic sound at the crowded Vic Theatre on Friday. Whether it was their vintage “Waiting For The Sun,” or... 

The Daily Herald reports: David Wiggins, of the 11400 block of Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago, has been charged with aggravated battery after he allegedly attacked a Pace bus driver in Hanover Park Friday morning. Wiggins is on parole for an armed... 

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk’s rehabilitation doctor said Friday that the Highland Park Republican has begun walking on a treadmill. “Sen. Kirk is adapting well to the rehabilitation program,” Dr. Richard L. Harvey, medical director of the Rehabilitation... 

Lake County Coroner officials said no signs of foul play were evident during an autopsy of a North Barrington woman found dead on the side of a busy road near Wauconda. Coroner Artis Yancey said Friday that officials are awaiting toxicology results before... 

The Bulls delivered a fourth-straight, yawn-inducing blowout Friday against an overmatched and shorthanded opponent. Derrick Rose sat out to rest his sore back and his teammates still pounded the Charlotte Bobcats 95-64. Original post: Hornets no match... 

New arts installation will beam ‘the Bean’ starting Friday Normally the light in Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero’s spare Humboldt Park apartment is plain, not funky at all. See original here: ‘Luminous Field’ will beam... 

Derrick Rose missed his third straight game with a left toe injury on Friday at Cleveland. But coach Tom Thibodeau promised before the game his team had more than enough to win and was right, as the Bulls rolled to a 114-75 victory. View original here:  Bulls...