The Warm Love Cool Dreams Music & Arts Festival, presented by the Empty Bottle, returns May 23-24. Chicago acts set to ...

Cloud Gate sculptor Anish Kapoor is sending a sculpture to space. “What, exactly, the work might be remains a mystery,” ...

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The second edition of the Sound & Gravity music festival, the new event helmed by longtime Pitchfork Music Festival producer ...

This past year, “audiences gravitated to exhibitions that encouraged people to linger and engage with one another,” Hans ...

With access to world-class museums and cultural institutions, students benefit from a thriving urban environment that complements their academic experience.” Volume Gallery is tripling in size with a ...

This season at Babes With Blades Theatre Company includes a world premiere, “yo ho.,” by playwright SMJ and directed by JD Caudill, running July 25-August 22, at The Edge Theater Off Broadway. The ...

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Persistent low attendance and funding cuts are forcing U.S. museums to think local,” reports The Art Newspaper. “Institutions ...

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 ...

Expo Chicago’s 2026 edition will present over 130 galleries from around the world in a new format that “reflects a strengthened artistic vision for the fair, prioritizing coherence, curatorial context ...

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 ...