Malort is uniquely Chicago and sure to get an intense reaction whenever it's brought out. Now author Josh Noel has written a book about the bitter liquor called "Malort: The Redemption of a ...

Lollapalooza is an essential part of summer in Chicago, and a new book has created a record of the oral history of one of the city's most defining festivals. "Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new book, The Wrigley Building ... and Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson discussed the building's history, with Samuelson highlighting its role in transforming the city's ...

Food writer Christina Ward spent summers four hours north of Chicago attending “kid revivals” in rural Jackson County, Wisconsin, in the ’70s, which involved bussing a group of kids to a ...

Lollapalooza is a popular music festival that takes place in Chicago's Grant Park each year ... Lollapalooza, a new oral history by Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour, documents the wild early ...

Illustrations by Philip Reed Willmarth from the book ‘The Magic of Matt Schulien’ (1959) When Curious City got a question about the history of Chicago magic, we spoke with half-a-dozen local ...

Chicago is too big, enormous in both geography and spirit, to capture in its entirety. Locals understand this. If you find a book set in a ... people and the map, but history.