The house that Frankie Knuckles built

Frankie Knuckles is back, minus a foot but loaded with plaudits including a street named after him in ChicagoEleven years ago, the famed house music DJ Frankie Knuckles was DJing in Switzerland when he tried snowboarding and promptly broke several metatarsals in his right foot. His injury developed into the bone disease osteomyelitis. The doctor told him that, in order to save his foot, he would need to rest it for a year, but Knuckles couldn't afford to stop DJing. Year by year his foot got wo...

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