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Column: Back home in Chicago, singer John Prine gets the celebration we’ve been waiting for (opens the original)
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As understandably restrained and quiet was the 2020 funeral of John Prine, the upcoming celebrations surrounding what would have been this singer-songwriter’s 80th birthday will be lavish and music-filled. After Prine died at 73 from complications of COVID-19 in the first months of the pandemic, his wife Fiona Whelan Prine was allowed to have only immediate family at the Nashville funeral home. As she said, “We had to beg for the opportunity for the immediate family to even gather. … We were lit
Meet the 20 new MacArthur Fellows, the ‘genius grant’ winners of 2026 (opens the original)
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On Tuesday morning, as has been happening annually since 1981, a small number of people have had their lives changed. This year, there are 20 of them, a group that has been formally announced as recipients of the 2026 MacArthur Fellowships, those so-called “genius grants.” Spread across the globe, these people will be receiving monetary awards of $800,000, paid out in annual installments of $160,000 over five years. Candidates are nominated by outside sources. “Nominees are suggested by a consta
Column: ‘Chicago Stories’ returns to WTTW with new histories, familiar but refreshed (opens the original)
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The latest batch of documentaries arriving from WTTW-Ch. 11’s generally worthwhile and entertaining “Chicago Stories” series may strike you with déjà vu, since each concerns a topic that has been covered and covered and covered in the past. But Chicago’s history is a rich mine, and so, even while providing some familiar nuggets, these new programs also show us that there is always fresh material to find. Peter Marks and Tania Lindsay are the producers and writers of “The World’s Fair of 1893” (a
Column: Historian brings us more discoveries about a famous Chicago cemetery (opens the original)
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CHICAGO -- Of all the details, stories and praise that accompanied the recent death of Dolly Parton, one of the most surprising was her affection for cemeteries. We learned that she once said, âI love cemeteries ⦠because nobody but weirdos like me really want to hang out there. I donât go there just to hang out with the dead; the dead donât scare me though, itâs the living thatâs got me frightened.â Sheâs got a good point there, as with most of her observations, but Iâd argue
Column: A Chicago historian brings us more discoveries about Graceland Cemetery (opens the original)
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Of all the details, stories and praise that accompanied the recent death of Dolly Parton, one of the most surprising was her affection for cemeteries. We learned that she once said, “I love cemeteries … because nobody but weirdos like me really want to hang out there. I don’t go there just to hang out with the dead; the dead don’t scare me though, it’s the living that’s got me frightened.” She’s got a good point there, as with most of her observations, but I’d argue with her about cemeteries att
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