During a weekend of hot, high-speed friction against the asphalt of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race course, thousands of tires burn out and wear down. After a few ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago airports were crowded Wednesday morning as people get away for the Fourth of July weekend. It's also the busiest day on the roads, since so many people are off work Thursday ...

Millions of people around the country will be traveling through the air during the Fourth of July holiday week, and it could be a record number. O’Hare International Airport is ...

Bars and restaurants offer their own ways to enjoy Independence Day, including serving flights of red, white and blue drinks.

Had the young British writer Jack Godfrey made up the plot of “42 Balloons,” his new musical with Broadway aspirations now in its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, he’d ...

Producer Kevin McCollum’s musical is based on the true story of “Lawnchair Larry” Walters, a Vietnam veteran who attached balloons to a lawn chair to fly. It was written by theater newcomer ...

Jack Godfrey, musical theatre composer, lyricist and writer, joins John Williams to talk about the musical, ‘ 42 Balloons,’ now showing at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Jack tells John about his ...

Playwright's first musical takes flight with ‘42 Balloons’ at Chicago Shakespeare Jack Godfrey turned to the true story of one man and his homemade, weather balloon-powered flying machine that ...

Larry Walters’ 1982 flight above Los Angeles in a lawn chair attached to 42 helium-filled weather balloons inspired the musical “42 Balloons” by writer, composer and lyricist Jack Godfrey ...

The Susman Godfrey Prize has been expanded this year, with the firm increasing the number of award recipients and increasing the award prize.

“The sentencing hearing will be long and rather wrenching,” said Doug Godfrey, a professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law.