Chicago Club: NATO commander cautions against headlong rush to war
A key general calls for consensus amid talk of confrontation with Iraq
If the U.S. is being whipped into a war frenzy, there was little evidence of it Wednesday morning at a breakfast gathering for movers and shakers at the Chicago Club. Indeed, there was more interest in the eggs Benedict. The speaker, imported by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, was Gen. Joseph Ralston, the top military commander in Europe for NATO and the United States. Yet in an hourlong discussion that ranged from the expansion of NATO to the need for a more mobile military,...
Chicago Club: The Guardian: The sun is shining: He was poor but he was happy. Now he's rich and even happier. Buddy Guy talks to Julian Piper
When the guitarist Buddy Guy first came to Britain in 1965, his incendiary blues and on-stage histrionics were unlike anything anyone had ever seen. He barnstormed the amphetamine- fuelled all-nighters of the London mod clubs, and appeared on Ready Steady Go!. He was feted by the likes of Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart. Today, at the age of 65, Guy is still going strong, averaging more than 200 shows a year. And, much to his delight, he is making money. When not on the road, he hangs out at his...
RELIVING OLD TIMES AT EARL OF OLD TOWN
A SHOW AT THE COLLEGE OF DUPAGE WILL PAY HOMAGE TO A LONG-GONE CHICAGO CLUB THAT WAS A STAPLE FOR FOLK MUSIC.
The Earl of Old Town has been gone for more than 15 years, but the Chicago club lives on in the hearts of countless folk fans."The Earl was a unique place," recalled singer and songwriter Ed Holstein. He performed on the Wells Street watering hole's tiny stage in the late 1960s and early '70s along with Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc and Jim Post. "We didn't realize it at the time, but it was one of the last...
911 tapes: 'Please, I don't want to die',
The recordings of the Chicago club stampede were released Monday.
CHICAGO -- Authorities on Monday released a tape of 911 calls made during last month's deadly Chicago club stampede, a haunting compilation with screaming clubgoers begging for their lives and several complaining of locked doors. "They keep telling us to go back ... . We cannot go back. They need to let us out," one woman pleaded in a call from the clogged stairwell as people yelled in the background. The woman soon began to panic and screamed,...
Chicago Club: State Raids Three `Las Vegas Nights,' Arrests 22
State revenue agents cracked down on three "Las Vegas Night" charity gambling sessions this weekend, closing down two in Des Plaines and Schaumburg and making 22 arrests for allegedly illegal operations.Hit in the raids were fund-raising operations for the Chicago Club of the Deaf at the Radisson Hotel in Schaumburg on Friday night and the Grayslake Exchange Club at Knickers Restaurant in Des Plaines and the Rockford Jaycees at a Rockford mall, both on Saturday...
