Chuck Berry, Etta James, and Sonny Boy Williamson II are the latest artists to join Chess Records’ 75th-anniversary reissue series.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ask the music cognoscenti about Chess Records and they will probably talk about how the label opened the door for black American blues, ...

WHEN this book arrived, I first of all flicked through the photographs of the protagonist and his cohorts from the early 1960s. There he was, snapped in 1961, playing banjo with Dick Charlesworth’s ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Blue Heaven" is a rousing tribute to the music that calls Chicago home, and the legends who made it an American art form. Lyle Miller plays Howlin' Wolf, and Dwight Neal, Muddy ...

Something’s missing from Levy Restaurants’ home office in downtown Chicago. Larry Levy, the company’s co-founder and a real estate developer, built One Magnificent Mile in 1983, the skyscraper where ...

"Cadillac Records" is a fun, fast, flashy introduction to the world of Chess Records. In the 1950s, Leonard Chess, a Polish-born Jew in Chicago, along with his brother Phil (not seen in this film) ...

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ELBERTA, Ala. (WKRG) — The usually pristine waters of Wolf Bay look more like chocolate milk as stormwater runoff pushes mud into Moccasin Bayou. “About two weeks ago it started, and since then it’s ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

When Charlie Musselwhite arrived in Chicago during the early 1960s, his mind wasn’t on the blues music that would soon became a lifelong artistic calling. It was on work. Any work. “All Chicago was to ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Ryan Coogler’s box-office hit “Sinners” is steeped in the blues, its folklore and legends. People can’t get enough of the movie or its songs, but if you want a deeper dive into the bluesmen who shaped ...