LeAlan Jones rushes onto the West Chatham Park practice football field and shoves his right outside linebacker: “Why are you waiting for him to come to you?” he demands, then shows the young man how ...

Princeton professor Mitchell Duneier came to town to talk about his new book, “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea,” and sign a few copies. But certain events in the week ...

For more than three decades, Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ Slugo, has been DJing, producing, and celebrating ghetto house, a sound he helped pioneer. Slugo grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funk made his name as the pioneer of the ghetto house (aka "booty house") sound that bubbled up in his native Chicago in the early ...

Instrumental in creating the house subgenre, the late producer is being mourned by the dance music community. By Katie Bain Chicago-based ghetto house pioneer DJ Deeon has died. An update posted to ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer before his death ...

It’s not often in life that you find yourself sharing a glass of tap water with a musical pioneer, but there I was in a not-quite-open-yet BBQ restaurant in Brixton enjoying a beaker of the Thames’ ...

Chicago is one of many ghetto hellholes across America and coming off a weekend where eight people were killed and at least 40 wounded, the Windy City has surpassed last year’s shooting victim rate by ...