A dispute between a white couple and a Latine couple takes on bigger sociopolitical implications in Theatre Evolve's ...

The Wisconsin Dells remains a popular midwest vacation destination, but Nellie Kluz’s 2024 documentary explores its murky ...

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In developing any kind of novel exhibition program, the presiding question is rarely that of the work itself or the program’s formal and historical bent, but rather that of the audience. Who is this ...

Horizons claims its inventory tops one million items—but how did that many records all end up in a tiny town an hour away from Rockford and even further from Peoria and Chicago? Fortuitously, in ...

The outdoor classics company goes back to the old-school rotating-rep model with Hamlet and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Photographer W.D. Floyd is building an archive of Chicago’s summer hopes and dreams.

In full disclosure, I didn’t visit all these shops in a single day, so consider eating your way through this path all at once as more of a dare than a recommendation. In any case, I do think you ...

Travel just 55 miles northwest of the city for a floating boardwalk, sandhill cranes, and one of the strangest ecosystems in the midwest.

At FAST Corp's rural Sparta headquarters, the molds behind the world's biggest muskie, roadside giants, and oversize mascots lie scattered in a field, waiting to be reborn.

A night of camping at Palos Preserves goes a long way towards re-establishing that connection to our pre-Anthropocene selves. Established as an official Urban Night Sky Place by DarkSky International, ...

IDHS grants that are supported by the Illinois Lottery’s specialty ticket have helped Fifth Street Renaissance to continue providing critical resources to some of the state’s most vulnerable and ...