Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Liam Stanton
Just like Dr. King, I have a dream. My dream is an Irish American Catholic mayor for our great city of Chicago. I dream of our city governed by som...
April 13, 2026
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Tommy McDonald
In 1963 I was a freshman at the venerable Mt. Carmel High School on the Southside of Chicago. Sitting across the aisle from me was a kid named Tomm...
March 30, 2026
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Joe McKittrick hails from formidable family
There is a tribe in Dublin, from Swords, County Fingal, known as the McKittricks. My friend at the Echo, Peter McDermott says “All three McKittrick...
February 25, 2026
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Boz O’Brien
Many years ago, (and by “many” I mean over thirty) I reached out to a publican for advice on my career. His name was Boz O’Brien and he was the own...
November 06, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Peggy O’Flaherty
Tech entrepreneur Peggy O’Flaherty launched her first business venture when she was a little girl in second grade. Peggy was the youngest of ten ki...
October 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Kevin Ryan is Lighting Up Illinois Politics
Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and gave it to humanity, who in turn transformed fire into a force for good and not evil. Zeus is the Democratic Pa...
September 01, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Chicago Calling: Tom Herion Has His Plate Full And Then Some
Jimmy Cagney would play Tom Herion in the old days. He’s Chief of the Lyons, Illinois Police Department, founder, big cheese behind The Chicago Gar...
July 24, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Noreen Heron's Self-Made Success
“The biggest thing that changed the trajectory of my life was I got a job at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse when I was 14 years old. I lied about my ...
June 13, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Tommy Finnegan and the Beatles of the Bagpipes
Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not mu...
May 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
News
Dearbhla's Sweet Home is Now Chicago
“One of my best friends lives here. And I had been back n’ forth. I was in Chicago for the first time thirty years ago, when it was one of the wors...
March 28, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Kevin O’Shea
When Kathy O’Shea passed about three and a half years ago, she left behind her husband Kevin, five kids and ten grandkids and an empty house full o...
February 19, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Police Sergeant Suzie Q. Kenny
Hollywood star Angie Dickinson made a splash playing TV’s “Sgt. Pepper Anderson,” LAPD’s top undercover cop, on her show “Police Woman” from 1974-7...
January 23, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Chicago Calling: Tom Herion Has His Plate Full And Then Some
