Open Space Arts presents the North American English-language premiere of Guillem Clua's queer romantic comedy.

Retired steelworker Tom Wells documented Chicago’s 60 miles of freight train tunnels under the city—it was just a matter of ...

As Illinois communities fight hyperscale data center projects from Joliet to Coal City, a group of Yorkville residents is finding unlikely common ground across party lines.

A Photographic History, 1966–2026” is the first major survey of its kind. On view at the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, the exhibition does not merely ...

Plus: Roving underground party Trench drops its own debut comp, Bookclub hosts a benefit for two of the Broadview Six, and ...

The commercialization of this day may inevitably give it the same fate as Labor Day, which, 150 years ago, represented the country’s growing labor movement and was founded to reject the deadly working ...

Hard Scrabble Sky by James Turrell was not only the first free, public Skyspace, but also the first in an urban environment.

In “Between Us” at Project Onward, sister cities Chicago and Osaka come alive in works made collaboratively by neurodiverse artists.

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

The Purple Cucumber helped launch the career of drummer Vince Ippolito, whose work with Happy Day Productions included ads ...

The Summer Smash works in part because it’s distinct to the region. The fest bears the name of the local hip-hop media outlet ...

Though Darius Jones tends to choose clearly defined sound worlds for the groups he leads, he fits quite naturally into Stephan Crump and Eric McPherson’s spontaneous approach on the trio’s debut CD, ...