The Brown Line is an emerging, independent Chicago newsletter named for the elevated train—aiming to cut through redlining to elevate the underground arts, culture, and community life of the city’s ...
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The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.
Long before reggaeton topped global charts, its story was being written through migration, resistance, and the sounds of the Caribbean. “Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón,” a new ...
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.