To the editor: The story of “Alice’s Restaurant," told by our favorite storyteller and native son Arlo Guthrie, is widely known through his iconic 1967 song and the subsequent 1969 movie of the same ...

Another cultural hero has fallen and, as usual, we aren’t sure what to make of it. Avid readers like me knew Alice Munro as the undisputed master of the short story, the modern-day Chekhov, whose ...

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) -- Alice Johnston of Oak Lawn, former suburban news editor for the Southtown Economist, predecessor of the current Daily Southtown, has died. She was 77. Family members said ...