We are thrilled to announce our upcoming 6th annual production, "Ghetto Vintage". This highly anticipated performance promises to captivate audiences with its dynamic choreography, infectious beats, ...

Influential Chicago producer and musician DJ Funk has died, aged 54. His death was confirmed and publicly announced by collaborator DJ Slugo on Wednesday (March 5) who said in an Instagram video: “I ...

Influential Chicago musician DJ Funk, credited with coining the term “ghetto house,” has died at 54. The news was announced by friend and collaborator DJ Slugo, who revealed Funk’s passing in a video ...

DJ Deeon's legacy has impacted every strain of modern dance music. Joe Muggs and peers of the Chicago ghetto house pioneer pay tribute Just as he was building connections with that international ...

Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun ownership laws in America, yet the violence persists. Legal gun ownership occurs throughout the state of Illinois; however, gun violence is not evenly ...

Yesterday electronic wunderkind Nicolas Jaar debuted “Ghetto,” an exultant eight-minute house track featuring vocals from Chicago ghetto house and juke producer Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ ...

IN A PART OF CHICAGO you may never have heard of. In a neighborhood where, only a dozen or so years ago, crushing poverty and vicious gangs had their heels on the throat of a dying community. Where, ...

In January 1966, on his 39th birthday, Alexander Polikoff had lunch with friends. They told him about a group of African-American organizations that had asked the ACLU to help them stop the CHA from ...

Princeton professor Mitchell Duneier came to town to talk about his new book, “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea,” and sign a few copies. But certain events in the week ...

ccording to Arnold Hirsch, in Making the Second Ghetto (Cambridge, $10.95 paperback), Chicago`s postwar housing projects were a colossal exercise in moral deception. Frightened by the rapid growth of ...