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Ann Reinking, a Broadway veteran who starred in the 1990s revival of Chicago, won a Tony Award as its choreographer and also co-starred in the films Annie and All That Jazz, has died. She was 71. Her death Saturday was announced by a family friend on social media and confirmed by a relative to our sister site. "The…

David Rodriguez, a writer-producer-director for film and television whose credits include The Chi, Queen of the South, and Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise, died October 29 from complications of a stroke. He was 50. Rodriguez was born in 1970 and raised in the Bronx by parents Millie and J.B. “David” Rodriguez. He spent…

Michael Jordan and his dominant Chicago Bulls remain a huge draw more than two decades after their last NBA title. The final two episodes of the 10-part ESPN docuseries The Last Dance drew 5.89 million and 5.4 million viewers, respectively. Sunday’s hourlong ninth episode watch the most-watched since Episode 3 on…

Chicago is hardly the Second City when it comes to streaming. Also, who needs primetime when there’s now the 2 PM time slot? Those are a couple of the takeaways from a new, market-by-market look by Nielsen at COVID-19 viewership trends. Of all markets with  non-linear viewing on Internet-connected devices or smart…

Google has been ordered to turn over a year's worth of Jussie Smollett's emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a prosecutor investigating the dismissal of his criminal charges over an alleged attack early last year. The Chicago Tribune reported that it obtained two search warrants submitted by…

On the eve of the House vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, crowds large and small gathered at rallies across the nation calling for Trump’s removal from office. Organized by MoveOn.Org and Common Cause, the rallies drew adults, children, the elderly, immigrants, veterans, and…

An autopsy performed Monday on Juice WRLD was inconclusive and additional tests are needed to determine the up-and-coming rapper’s exact cause of death, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office in Illinois said. "Additional studies are required to establish the cause and manner of death for 21-year-old Jarad A…

UPDATED, 3:37 PM: A federal judge has tossed out Jussie Smollett’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against him by the city of Chicago tied to overtime for police working on his alleged hoax assault case. The city is seeking $130,000 from the ex-Empire star. U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall rejected Smollett’s…

As a special prosecutor probes into what really happened with Jussie Smollett in the early morning of January 29 on the cold streets of Chicago and the subsequently dismissed criminal case against him, the former Empire star and the Windy City are locked in a new war of words and court filings over their compensation…

Camera crews with Fox drama Empire were spotted filming Tuesday morning in the same Chicago neighborhood where Jussie Smollett told police he was attacked in January. NBC 5 Chicago obtained photos of several production trucks and set security near the corner of McClurg and North Water Street. That’s just one block…

The Chicago production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton will close Jan. 5, 2020, bringing its three-year run to an end. The Broadway In Chicago production at the CIBC Theatre will have played a total of 1,341 performances since the production began Sept. 27, 2016. During the 171-week run, more than 2.6 million people…

Newly released emails and text messages reveal that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office oversaw the Jussie Smollett case, thought the 16 disorderly conduct charges brought against the Empire actor were too severe. Thousands of internal text messages and emails about the investigation were released…