Rick Kogan

It is that time of year and the mind turns to grills. For many, the thing to grill is ribs, but most anything will do.

Among Chicago's demolished architectural treasures are the Stock Exchange Building, Dearborn Station Trainshed and Granada Theater, "one of the largest and most ornate movie palaces ever built."

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write...