The Latest Breaking News from Second City

From hotel parties to bar pop-ups and comedy shows to concerts, here’s a guide to some of the events to ring in the new year on Dec. 31.

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CHICAGO — Second City, the Chicago-based comedy theater whose name is a rejoinder to East Coast snobbery in the arts and entertainment business, is heading to New York City.

CHICAGO — Chicago’s Second City, the venerable comedy theater headquartered in Old Town, has a new CEO: Ed Wells, most recently executive vice president and global head of media and education for the Sesame Workshop, the producers of “Sesame Street,” formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop.

Ed Wells, new boss at the Chicago company, says he’ll work on ‘bringing the Second City magic to audiences everywhere.’

CHICAGO — One day, Arlieta Hall’s father forgot that you don’t go to Best Buy to get chairs. On another day, he thought her brother was his younger self. That was when Arlieta realized that Alzheimer’s had hit the smartest man she knew.

From stand-up to improv, comedy will be everywhere on area stages in the months ahead.

“Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations,” the Long Grove Chocolate Fest and a National Tap Dance Day celebration are among the cool things to see and do in the week ahead.

CHICAGO — Chicago’s Second City comedy theater, which has seen significant recent turnover in creative and administrative staff, will honor its illustrious roots and help its own future with a new artistic advisory board of illustrious former performers, as curated by alum Stephen Colbert.

An encounter with improv guru Del Close convinced the kid from Naperville that career in the arts could work.

Staff is told he departed "due to changes in his personal life."