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Music, Music Review Nov 12, 2020
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Chicago extreme music pioneers Macabre release their first album in nearly a decade
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music Review, Macabre, Carnival of Killers, Nuclear Blast Records, heavy metal, serial killers, H.H. Holmes, Richard Ramirez, Holiday of Horror, Reggies, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2017
Researchers are exhuming World’s Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes’s body to determine if he escaped execution, and other Chicago news

Also, CPD superintendent Eddie Johnson’s car was broken into over the weekend.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, H.H. Holmes, Devil in the White City, 1893 World’s Fair, Hyde Park, Chicago history, Eddie Johnson, Chicago Police Department, Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice, police reform, Barack Obama, Michael Pfleger, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, City Hall, David Orr, cold cases, Lisa Stebic, Planfield, missing people, The Chainsmokers, EDM, Rosemont, Huntley High School

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 1, 2016
Jason Diamond’s Searching for John Hughes is really a journey of self-discovery

The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Jason Diamond, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know About Life I Learned From Watching 80s Movies, John Hughes, North Shore, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Rolling Stone, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Shermer Illinois, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, H.H. Holmes, Rich Cohen, McHenry County, Lake Forest, Chicago Cubs

Arts & Culture, Feature Mar 5, 2015
At Mad Mobster's peculiar crossroads of real and imagined horrors

As geeks descend on this weekend’s Wizard World Comic Con Fan Fest, we wade into the morally murky serial-killer culture of a far more unusual convention, the Mad Mobster True Crime & Horror Expo.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Feature, Mad Mobster True Crime & Horror Expo, horror, crime, Mad Mobster, conventions, fan conventions, Mad Monster, Gunnar Hansen, Kyle Skogquist, Impaler, movies, fiction, reality, Kevin Blanchfield, horror movies, actors, Brad Dourif, Kane Hodder, Jason Voorhees, Virginia Curry, Richard Castaldo, Columbine High School, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Steve Railsback, William Forsyth, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, Ed Gein, serial killers, paraphernalia, memorabilia, collecting, Eben McGarr, ethics, celebrity, Kyle Kuchta, documentaries, John Borowski, Carl Panzram, H.H. Holmes, Jeffrey Dahmer, murderers, Macabre, Hart Fisher, murderabilia, Aileen Wuornos, panel discussions, William Harder, MurderAuction.com, eBay, Andy Kahan, Crime Victims Office, exhibits, Jesse James Hollywood, Nicholas Markowitz, Charles Manson, monsters, John Russo, Jon Polito, Wednesday 13, Murderdolls, David Fincher, Richmond Arquette, Charles Fleischer, Roy Hazelwood, Levi Tinker, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2014
Devil in the White City vs. Chicago: City on the Make: Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament round one

Northwestern professor Bill Savage gives hell to Devil in the White City.
- By Bill Savage
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, greatest ever chicago book, bill savage, northwestern, devil in the white city, Chicago: city on the make, nelson algren, erik larson, h.h. holmes

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
One Bite: Craft Pizza's murderously spicy white pizza

Wicker Park's counter-service pizzeria slings thin crust at night and bagels on the weekends.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Craft Pizza, Pizzeria Serio, Scott Toth, pizza, bagels, H.H. Holmes, devil in the white city, wicker park

News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 10, 2014
This week's Chicagoan: Adam Selzer, ghost-tour guide

"Every block I walk down in the city, I can tell you who got murdered there."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, ghost tours, tour guides, Adam Selzer, Chicago Hauntings, research, history, archives, Harold Washington Library, Daley Center, probate records, H.H. Holmes, serial killers, History Channel, ghosts, hauntings, Resurrection Mary, Resurrection Cemetery, cemeteries, Congress Hotel, fear, Florentine Room, funeral homes, swearing, Bethania Cemetery, ghost stories, deaths, murder

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2012
Roger Ebert critiques his second date with Oprah Winfrey

Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions: funny, quirky, short ruminations told in the personas of famous Chicagoans
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Michael Czyzniejewski, Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions, Curbside Splendor, Roger Ebert, Oprah Winfrey, Victor David Giron, Barack Obama, Ann Landers, Twitter, David Yow, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Rich Koz, Berwyn, H.H. Holmes, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck

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Chicago extreme music pioneers Macabre release their first album in nearly a decade

Researchers are exhuming World’s Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes’s body to determine if he escaped execution, and other Chicago news

Also, CPD superintendent Eddie Johnson’s car was broken into over the weekend.

Jason Diamond’s Searching for John Hughes is really a journey of self-discovery

The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.

At Mad Mobster's peculiar crossroads of real and imagined horrors

As geeks descend on this weekend’s Wizard World Comic Con Fan Fest, we wade into the morally murky serial-killer culture of a far more unusual convention, the Mad Mobster True Crime & Horror Expo.

Devil in the White City vs. Chicago: City on the Make: Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament round one

Northwestern professor Bill Savage gives hell to Devil in the White City.

One Bite: Craft Pizza's murderously spicy white pizza

Wicker Park's counter-service pizzeria slings thin crust at night and bagels on the weekends.

This week's Chicagoan: Adam Selzer, ghost-tour guide

"Every block I walk down in the city, I can tell you who got murdered there."

Roger Ebert critiques his second date with Oprah Winfrey

Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions: funny, quirky, short ruminations told in the personas of famous Chicagoans

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Also, CPD superintendent Eddie Johnson’s car was broken into over the weekend.

The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.

As geeks descend on this weekend’s Wizard World Comic Con Fan Fest, we wade into the morally murky serial-killer culture of a far more unusual convention, the Mad Mobster True Crime & Horror Expo.

Northwestern professor Bill Savage gives hell to Devil in the White City.

Wicker Park's counter-service pizzeria slings thin crust at night and bagels on the weekends.

"Every block I walk down in the city, I can tell you who got murdered there."

Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions: funny, quirky, short ruminations told in the personas of famous Chicagoans

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