Donley’s Wild West Town a return to yesteryear

Go West, young Chicagoans. Go West. Direct your parents to load up the family car and head on Interstate 90 past Barrington, past Elgin and through Hampshire. Go west to Union, Ill., the small-town (population: 579) home of Donley’s Wild West Town, a museum and …Read More

• Get Up and Go! for May 17, 2013

  Here are events worth getting out of the house for on May 17. Suggestions include Oak Forest, Park Forest and Midlothian.

• Beverly Theatre Guild celebrates with ‘Fabulous @ Fifty’

  Southland theater fans are spoiled — in a good way. Not only can they travel to downtown Chicago for a number of Broadway shows, but they also have a bevy of close-by community theater. Case in point is the Beverly Theatre Guild, which is billed …Read More

• ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ turns out to be quite the Enterprise

  RICHARD ROEPER: Director J.J. Abrams is a true talent, and he’s also a pop-culture savant who has great respect for the legacy of this franchise as well as a keen understanding of the mega-importance of box-office figures. There’s no better choice to make the best, the purest AND the most accessible big-budget “Star Trek” movie possible. Yet with all the futuristic splendor and the fine performances, “Into Darkness” only occasionally soars, mostly settling for being a solid but unspectacular effort that sets the stage for the next chapter(s).