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In his relatively short career, John Candy created a slew of scene-stealing characters in movies, including several filmed in the Chicago area. There is the orange whip-loving parole officer in “The ...

Jack Cassidy was a well-known talent in the ‘60s, but even those closest to the Tony winner say they never knew who he really was. Shaun Cassidy exclusively tells PEOPLE that his father was a bit of a ...

"I'm not sure he ever really figured out who he was," the singer, 66, said of his Tony-winning father Mark Gray is a journalist of over two decades. He has written about entertainment, sports and ...

HILLSBORO, N.D. — When he died this past February at the age of 96, John Carroll Pederson was remembered for his love of family, golf and particularly his art. “Through his art, John, along with his ...

Photo of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon taken prior to their first debate at WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1960. (Associated Press public domain) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles ...

Long before Bayside became one of New York City’s most coveted residential neighborhoods for high-income families during the last century, the land in northeast Queens belonged to the Matinecock ...

W.C. Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it. 'Gringos leave': Protests targeting travelers rise as ...

That classic icon from vaudeville and film, the great curmudgeon W.C. Fields said it best, “Never work with kids and animals.” But he never worked with Richard Parker (the tiger). Fields would have ...