Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Even before the trouble between games ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If you can hum a few bars of “Disco Duck,” have I got a show for you. It is the latest episode of the distinguished PBS “American Experience” series, which has over 35 seasons given television viewers ...

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 ...

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This article is the seventh in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting image from one of our films alongside an essay about why that picture is worth, well, a thousand words.

An anti-disco movement spurs the development of house music. An anti-disco movement believed to be rooted in racism and homophobia drives disco underground. But house music reemerges as a new genre.

American Experience’s “The War on Disco” airs at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also stream on the PBS app. Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series ...