Baseball runs in the Veeck family. It began with William Veeck Sr., sportswriter turned baseball executive. Then-Chicago Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr., whom Wrigley Field is famously named after, ...

Chicago house pioneer Vince Lawrence recalls witnessing Disco Demolition Night as a teenager, and later recognizing the racist undertones of the infamous incident, in a new clip from the fascinating ...

Thurston Moore Preps New Solo Album, 'Flow Critical Lucidity' Disco never died. The people who attended the Disco Demolition Night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park might have thought they were killing it.

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Almost 37 years ago to the day, Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl blew up disco records at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an event that blew up itself into the ...

One day in 1979, Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl encouraged thousands of fans to bring disco records to a White Sox game and destroy them. “He felt like it was just ‘that Black stuff,’” Vince Lawrence ...

The fine folks over at South Side Sox direct our attention toward a nice time-waster on a slow offseason Monday: Diane Alexander White's gallery of 35 photos taken in the hours before the Chicago's ...

I was hoping that the first game after the trade deadline would show a spark of fight from this team. I wasn’t expecting them to go on a magical run to the Wild Card, but I was definitely thinking ...

The demise of disco was greatly accelerated by the cultural impact of the infamous Disco Demolition Night of 1979 in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. While rockers have used the word in a pejorative sense for ...

Disco never died. The people who attended the Disco Demolition Night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park might have thought they were killing it. And those that have watched the footage might point to that ...