Less than a week before the opening of its new mainstage revue, "America: All Better," Second City has been suddenly confronted by a tsunami: this mor...

The Colorado-born comic cut his teeth in the Chicago comedy scene rather rapidly: He toured with Second City, performed with iO, and did stand-up at p...

With the election of Barack Obama, the urban orbits have shifted. After Washington, D.C., Chicago has won Second City status once again, based on politics rather than population.

Chicago, my hometown, and far more significantly, that of Sen. Barack Obama, appears poised with his election as president--pooh, pooh, pooh!--to beco...

If you are of Indian or Pakistani descent, you know the drill. When you grow up you have to be either a doctor, engineer and lately, a computer programmer. If you're anything else, guess what? You're not worth much.

Well, maybe when I moved here from New York City in 1974, leaving a rent stabilized apartment on Central Park South, a job with the George Lang Corporation and the best friends and life imaginable.