Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Even before the trouble between games ...

CHICAGO — If you can hum a few bars of “Disco Duck,” have I got a show for you. It is the latest episode of the distinguished PBS “American Experience” series, which has over 35 seasons given ...

American Experience’s “The War on Disco” airs at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also stream on the PBS app. Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Almost 37 years ago to the day, Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl blew up disco records at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an event that blew up itself into the ...

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

Did disco ever really die? Diallo Riddle and Blake “Luxxury” Robin, hosts of the new podcast, ONE SONG say no. They deconstruct the event for us and show how the enduring music genre evolved. ONE SONG ...

The fine folks over at South Side Sox direct our attention toward a nice time-waster on a slow offseason Monday: Diane Alexander White's gallery of 35 photos taken in the hours before the Chicago's ...

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Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when American Experience's Cameo George reached out and told him she was ...