Among the wealthier families of Chicago’s Gilded Age, the Nickersons were a prominent name in banking. They resided in a three-story mansion located just a block-and-a-half west of Michigan Avenue ...

I wrote a column a couple months ago about a trip my older sister Pam hosted for me to Las Vegas to see film classic “The Wizard of Oz” as presented at the now-famed orb-shaped venue Sphere. This ...

If only by default, I’ve become a “Wizard of Oz” historian during my last 30 years of journalism. My inauguration for this Yellow Brick Road destiny happened in September 1993 when I was a 23-year-old ...

Pantomime is a British family theatre tradition for the winter months, in which classic fairy tales are rewritten as satirical, camp, broad comedies, with songs, innuendo, audience interaction, puns, ...