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Celebrate with the girlies in Chicago with a fun, interactive, memorable way to explore and see the city! Whether local or from the other side of the world, Chicago Murder Mystery Tour is a perfect way to have fun with friends! Dress-Up Extravaganza: Step into a world...

Tornadoes; the devil’s wind. Many believe the windy city is impervious to tornadoes that ravage the surrounding midwest. Perhaps something about urban density, being along the lakefront, and other mysterious factors that spare the metropolis from seeing rows of...

“If Cigo was angry with his wife, why shoot the children? Maybe logic is just an illusion. Maybe we all run on currents that always elude us” (DiMaggio, p.33)No stranger to tales of high-society crime and murder, John DiMaggio paints scene after scene of the most...

When the air wasn’t thick with industrial waste from the Union Stockyards, working class 1950s Chicagoans enjoyed the savory smoke of another foregone institution; Chicago’s shrimp shacks. Today, a few one-room huts along the waterfront are the only clues left of what...

"In my sixteen years of experience I have come across more suffering than ever is seen by any man detective," Marie Owens to the Chicago Tribune, 1906.In a city where Miss O’Leary’s myth still lives in the folklore, it’s the real story of one working-class Irish...

The north-end of Rush Street is an exciting intersection of nightclubs, luxury restaurants and high-end hotels, and also an exciting cauldron of sordid history. Just a five-minute walk from the original Playboy Mansion this hotbed of nightlife action once rivaled...