CHICAGO — Twenty years ago, across the Lincoln Park street where Erwin Helfer has lived since 1968, new neighbors moved in and installed a grand piano in their front window — and rarely played it. “A ...

Let's Boogie, opened by Neal Keller in 1976, is now run by Keller's son, who is preserving its place as one of Chicago's oldest record stores.

Andrew Kitchen says he's thinking of rebooting his show as Attack of the Boogie Reloaded. Credit: Jeff Marini for Chicago Reader Before one can properly submit to the attack of Kitchen’s boogie, one ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

His specialty was a style called Boogie Woogie. But during the Depression, boogie woogie and the men who played it languished in obscurity until the legendary talent scout John Hammond came to Chicago ...