Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funk made his name as the pioneer of the ghetto house (aka “booty house”) sound that bubbled up in his native Chicago in the early ...

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, ...

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 ...

The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any other city ...

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, ...

For years, whites and middle-class blacks in Chicago and around the nation have fled from a black underclass mired in poverty and routinely plundered and victimized by a subclass of criminals. When ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any ...