Two Piece Fest kicks off Thursday, February 12, with live late-night radio performances on WZRD from a couple heavy locals, the Human Trials and Heet Deth.

On her self-titled third album, singer-songwriter Jana Horn contemplates grief while contending with the trick mirrors of life’s unending changes.

If you’ve never been to a Palmer Squares show, you’re missing out on some real merriment. The Chicago-based duo of Seth Zamost (aka Terminal Knowledge) and Matt Brands (aka Acumental) present like a ...

A planned quantum computing campus and innovation district on the former U.S. Steel South Works site promises jobs and investment, but residents and organizers have concerns around how, and whether, ...

Cavazos holds a PhD in atomic physics and runs the University of Chicago’s Quantum Educational Laboratory, where he teaches students about quantum computing. He hopes to see the technology used to ...

The 2026 Frequency Festival draws a line through one-bit electronics, Scottish balladry, musically hybrid fictional history, ...

Purelink's delicately layered tracks are so immersive that even the smallest details, which might fade into the background in ...

The Reader’s future is built on a five-decade legacy of groundbreaking work and a newsroom that truly loves you, Chicago.

Public encampments provide resources and community for people experiencing homelessness, but city crews repeatedly evict residents.

A reader submits a letter calling for the Illinois Commerce Commission to reject Peoples Gas’s proposal to pass its reckless spending onto residents.

This story was copublished with Unraveled. Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on ...

The Chicago Reader is back in print! Our February issue is being delivered to more than 600 locations across the city beginning. Find the closest newspaper box, coffee shop, bar, library branch, ...