Modern Wives, Take Me Away Tour, with Death Series, Saints Of Never After and Saber, 8 p.m., Nile Theater, 1721 19th St. $14.63; tixr.com. Children First Literacy Gala: "Heritage of Words," 6 to 10 p.
It's where the Michigan Wolverines of 1924 swore they saw a galloping ghost and Big Ten ballcarriers of the early '60s were rudely introduced to a bruiser named Butkus; where 948 Illini war heroes are ...