“A Voice for the Soul of the City” One day, from the front seat of my car, I watch the sunrise over frozen Lake Michigan. Poetic. Beautiful – purple morning streaks in chalky red-grey -blog, Jan 28
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A little something’ from the archive: “Chi-Lives” Chicago Reader, 2001
Jamie O’Reilly’s childhood sounds like the premise for a Technicolor-drenched 1950s Hollywood musical: a powerful Irish-American, Shakespearean actor father revered in the local theatrical community, a radiant, silver-voiced diva of a mother, and a brood of 14 singing children, each more talented than the next. Put them in a small town in northern Illinois, where […]
