When The Warehouse made the top seven list of most endangered buildings in Chicago facing possible demolition, preservationists sprung to action to save the West Loop industrial building where ...

Frankie Knuckles, the Father of House Music and the Master of the Remix, died last week at 59. In the world of music, more change came in the past 50 years than in the preceding 150. The man who ...

Details are scarce at this point but 5 Chicago is reporting that house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles has died at age 59, with corroboration from his [90s Def Mix Productions partner David Morales.

Back in the late '70s and early '80s, Frankie Knuckles spun at a Chicago club called The Warehouse, which is where his special brand of music, House, got its name. Back in the late '70s and early '80s ...

Frankie Knuckles died in 2014, but he still casts a long shadow over dance music in Chicago and around the world. That much will be evident when a gaggle of top-shelf DJs and singers gathers to pay ...

CHICAGO -- The man known as ''the godfather of Chicago house music'' has died. Frankie Knuckles came to Chicago from New York in the 1970s. He was a driving force behind house music, a type of disco ...

In the April 17 letter, Obama called Knuckles -- who died at 59 three weeks ago -- a "trailblazer in his field." By Mitchell Peters, Billboard, Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard Frankie Knuckles H Three ...

A wall dedicated to the late Chicago house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles lasted 415 days in Logan Square. The tribute wall was easily seen from the Blue Line between the California and Logan Square ...

You can talk about East Coast–West Coast hip-hop and Studio 54 all you want, but in the realm of Black dance music, Chicagoans can claim one seminal style as theirs and theirs alone. The propulsive ...

The DJ and producer widely revered as the “Godfather of House,” reportedly died due to complications of diabetes. By Lars Brandle, Billboard Frankie Knuckles H Frankie Knuckles, the DJ and producer ...

The world of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) was shocked to learn today of Frankie Knuckles‘ death at just 59 years of age of complications from diabetes. Knuckles moved from New York and started ...

The legendary Frankie Knuckles, the “godfather of house music,” passed away at the age of 59 on Monday. Knuckles’ longtime business partner, Frederick Dunson, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that ...