Mike Lowe

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Mike Lowe

CHICAGO — Kym Mazelle has come a long way since she was a young girl in Gary, Indiana with a bright smile and big city dreams. She moved to Chicago, then attended Columbia College, and became immersed in a new underground disco music scene. She later became known as “The First Lady of House,” a recognition of her critical role in pioneering the electronic dance music genre in the mid-1980s. “It was magical,” said Mazelle. “It was a magical time because we were all very young, very hungry.

4 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Mike Lowe |Anna Roberts

He is a Chicago area native and has many connections to St. Rita — an Augustinian High School — on Chicago’s South Side. There was a sense of excitement Thursday that a son of the South Side is now the leader of the worldwide catholic faith. Father Thomas McCarthy has known Prevost nearly four decades. They met back in 1983.  “Us Augustinians, we know Bob. We know who he is. We know the world is going to find out who he is. He’s just an unbelievably, good normal guy,” he said.

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Mike Lowe

CHICAGO (WGN) — Pope Leo XIV an Augustinian priest. Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. He is a Chicago area native and has many connections to St. Rita — an Augustinian High School — on Chicago’s South Side. There was a sense of excitement Thursday that a son of the South Side is now the leader of the worldwide catholic faith. Brother answers burning question: Is Pope Leo XIV a Chicago White Sox or Cubs fan?

1 month ago | wgntv.com | Mike Lowe |Kevin Doellman

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — On an early spring day in unincorporated Lombard, Robert Lee Fritz needs an extra pair of hands. “The smallest gloves are the far left,” he says to Austin Klot, his grandson and apprentice. Klot has been studying the art of hot glass blowing since he was 7 years old. He’s learned that glass and relationships have something in common: both are strengthened with patience and practice.

1 month ago | wgntv.com | Mike Lowe |Ashlyn Wright

THE LOOP — Outside of the Chicago Theatre, State Street itself is a stage, and artist Jenny Jing Zhang is bringing her own front row seat to the daily drama of construction and commotion, in which construction workers are digging and cars are speeding through the street.  “It’s about people, right? People, cars, what’s happening in the city,” Zhang said. Zhang is a sketch artist using watercolor paint, colored pencils, and a fountain pen to document the day.