Karen Stoner

Name: Bill "Griff" Griffin Position: Sports Vendor Years: 50 Q. You sell programs, scorecards, popcorn and peanuts, foam rubber "claws" and other things -- are people spending much these days?...

Name: Gateway Theatre, 5216 W. Lawrence Ave. Year built: 1930 Number of screens: 1 A great little nugget of Chicago history lies in the name of the Gateway Theatre on...

Actor Bruce Campbell and "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi teamed up three times to make the B-grade "Evil Dead" trilogy ("Evil Dead," "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness"). Long before...

Name: Lee Cook Position: Sports Vendor Years: 24 Q. A friend told me she's seen you working games and you stand out because you're really buffed. What's the limit that...

Name: Lake Theatre in Oak Park Year open: 1936 Number of screens: 7 (1 original) The Lake Theatre sits prominently on one of Oak Park's main east-west corridors, Lake Street....

Name: Kathleen Skolnik Position: Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise Docent Years: 10 Q. Do you think this might just be the most fun you'll ever have in a position --...

Name: Kathleen Skolnik Position: Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise Docent Years: 10 Q. Do you think this might be the most fun you'll ever have in a position -- pointing...

"America will tire of me much quicker than they did Kathie Lee." --TV personality Kelly Ripa, on her future as a morning-talk-show host opposite Regis Philbin on the ABC network,...

Name: The Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge Year open: 1928 Number of screens: 4 (1 original) The Pickwick Theatre is the largest -- and probably oldest -- vaudeville movie house...

Name: Bill "Griff" Griffin Position: Sports Vendor Years: 50 Q. You sell programs, scorecards, popcorn and peanuts, foam rubber "claws" and other things -- are people spending much these days?...