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Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...

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Christian JaLon is a South side Chicago Native. She is a singer/songwriter, poet, and published author ("'Amen" by C.J.

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught our ear—including by Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Bussy ...

Return to the Rec Room,” a Michael Smith retrospective at Soccer Club Club, shows the artist's longheld interest in the absurdity of life.

A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

Golden Street cofounder Son Amoz wants his organization to build a spiritually rooted ecosystem for musicians, muralists, and ...

Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at First Floor Theater combines environmental and existential dread with mundane frustrations.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Despite some minor hits in the 1960s, Chicago vocal group the Radiants couldn’t ride the soul-music wave they’d helped create.

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...