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    In memoriam: A few final words and a Sinatra story about the Chicago-born comic Shecky Greene

    CHICAGO — In recent days in the places where older folks gather to remember and talk about what they remember, conversations were peppered with the name Shecky Greene. Only those of a certain vintage know that name, fewer still can recall seeing him on television and even fewer can share memories of what he said and did on the stages of such bygone places as Mister Kelly’s on Rush Street, Mill ...
    by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune Jan 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Comedian Shecky Greene sits during Conversations with Norm in the Jazz Cabaret at the Smith Center on April 3, 2016, in Las Vegas.

    CHICAGO — In recent days in the places where older folks gather to remember and talk about what they remember, conversations were peppered with the name Shecky Greene.

    Only those of a certain vintage know that name, fewer still can recall seeing him on television and even fewer can share memories of what he said and did on the stages of such bygone places as Mister Kelly’s on Rush Street, Mill Run Playhouse in Niles or various Las Vegas outposts.

    These trips back in time were prompted by the of Greene on Dec. 31, 2023. The local

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