One summer evening, back in the ‘80s, I filed into a Chicago theater and beheld my city on the big screen, pretty much for the first time. I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy ...

There are few Chicago cliches more overdone than the Blues Brothers. Maybe hot dogs. OK, deep dish. The Bears logo. The Cubs logo. The Bean. Then there’s that iconic silhouette — dark shades ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren ...

Blues in particular has been mined in recent years by photographers, resulting in a number of excellent books of portraits. Two of the most recent have focused on Chicago blues artists from South ...

Does “The Blues Brothers” deserve a book? In the pantheon of gloriously dumb movie comedies derived from “Saturday Night Live” and the National Lampoon, the 1980 John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd R ...

One summer evening, back in the ‘80s, I filed into a Chicago theater and beheld my city on the big screen, pretty much for the first time. I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy ...