CHICAGO (WLS) -- A lunchtime dance party in Daley Plaza celebrated 40 years of Chicago's most famous music genre, house. A live DJ spun the same tunes Chicagoans have been dancing to for decades.

INNER CITY: (Singing) Let me take you to a place I know you want to go. It's a good life, yeah. SHAPIRO: It's called "Good Life," by Inner City. Music producer Dennis White, aka Latroit, was part of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Loose Ends celebrates house music with its "Locally Sourced" event series, held previously at Neon ...

In February of 2023, the first-of-its-kind Boom Room Dance Party was held at the Underground Niteclub. Now, the organizers of that sensational night of house music – Tony Billoni (How to Have Fun) and ...

Since the 2010s, electronic dance music (EDM) has become one of the largest and most popular sectors of the music industry, with festivals and record sales netting billions of dollars each year. EDM ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

In the late 1980s, this track helped house music become a global sensation. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GOOD LIFE") INNER CITY: (Singing) Let me take you to a place I know you want to go. It's a good life, ...