CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Above all, a good roof.

Sitting outside the café replicated from Edward Hopper’s famous ” Nighthawks ” at the beginning of the second act, a wife asks her husband about the people inside the café.

Sithi uhm ingonyama! The Lion King” is returning to Chicago for a six-week engagement this fall at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Julie Taymor’s famous production will play from Sept. 29.

Year in and year out, Hendersonville High School is known throughout the state for its excellence in academics and athletics. But recognition on a national scale?

Mama, the central character in Lisa Loomer’s play “Distracted” loves her nine-year-old boy. “It’s like having your heart walking around outside your body,” she says, in a line that will surely resonant with any parent sitting in the seats at the American Theater Company on Chicago’s North Side.

The Celtic knots in the plaster were a sign, says Maureen Kennedy. The old McKinley School was destined to become an Irish center.

A retro sport made its way to Chicago’s Congress Theater in 2005 and has since been carving a name for itself amongst major sports in the city. As the Windy City Rollers quickly found their niche in the Chicago sports market, the league realized it would need more space to accommodate its fans.

Gregory Mosher, the director of Columbia’s Arts Initiative and of the current Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge,” lets his two jobs inform each other.