“Set in a former currency exchange remodeled into a sanctuary filled with spinning records and steeping tea,” Theaster Gates and Rebuild Foundation’s “A Listening Space” invites the public into a ...

Mayan Artifact Will Be Returned By National Museum of Mexican Art “A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly forty years,” reports WBEZ. The National ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced its 2025 edition of “21Minus” for June 14, from 1-6pm. The event “is an annual, daylong celebration of creativity curated by Chicago teens for ...

“At the Art for Tomorrow conference in Milan, participants faced sobering financial and geopolitical realities, while still finding reasons for hope and joy,” reports the New York Times. “’We all ...

One Friday night on the Northwest Side of Chicago, in a tiny strip mall with a faux-limestone facade, I find myself eating venison sausage and drinking plum brandy, trading stories of long-ago war ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

Chicago’s Peace Garden is not a particularly peaceful place. Located in Uptown next to Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Buena Avenue underpass, its tranquility is undermined by the constant roar of ...

Wrongful conviction settlements are big business, but they are not always sensible. Chicago settles millions of dollars in cases where convicted offenders claim they were wrongfully convicted. For a ...

The Four Deuces was the headquarters of the Chicago Outfit, managed by Johnny “The Brain” Torrio and his protégé Al Capone in the early 1920s. The three-story saloon, brothel and gambling parlor were ...