Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and achievements. Here are 62 people whose memories Chicago is honoring in 2025.

Celebrate the holiday season with WKAR Radio! Tune in and enjoy a variety of holiday classics and seasonal favorites.

From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

The 2024 debut Small Medium Large established SML as a fascinating new force in the jazz/improv underground. With traces of ...

Don’t miss The Jimmys’ award-winning blues and funk show at the Jensen Center in Amherst on Jan. 17. Tickets start at $25.

We’ll trace Miyan's journey in five cuts that show her range as a vocalist, a collaborator, and a builder of worlds on the ...

Tony Jacobs, Vancouver’s famous singing school security guard, isn’t a security guard anymore. But he’s singing more than ever, and leading the band of his dreams at last.

The '70s more or less invented the rock gods. But the '80s found many of these icons struggling to adapt to the sounds of a ...

Deville (jazz hip-hop artist) and his 2025 album Rings Around The Tub is a fave. He’s a born and raised Chicagoan who’s lived ...

Award-winning Canadian fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, parents of seven children, bring their Celtic Family Christmas to St. Paul (7:30 p.m. Ordway Concert Hall, $34 and up); ...

Make our day Make A Dance are having a bit of a moment right now. Producers, DJs, party promoters and label owners (the essential M.A.D Records, which we’ll return to later), Ben Lewis an ...

London dubstep don Mala returns to his own label Deep Medi Musik after almost a decade, with 'Militant Don'. The t ...