CHICAGO — A screaming comes across the sky, and the volleyball players on North Avenue Beach stop at once and instinctively duck and stare out across the sand, as if a bomb went off in the distance. A ...

CHICAGO -- A screaming comes across the sky, and the volleyball players on North Avenue Beach stop at once and instinctively duck and stare out across the sand, as if a bomb went off in the distance.

Scream Club Chicago, which was not a thing when it began last June, and is now very much a thing, with chapters springing up around the world only nine weeks later, meets every Sunday evening at 7 p.m ...