Nina Sallinen in Walkabout Theater's 2006 revival of Poor Poor Lear, cowritten by Sallinen and Katja Krohn Credit: Griffin Sand A once-powerful and fearsome leader begins losing their grip on reality ...

Highlands REIT, a Chicago-based real estate company, is moving forward with plans to lease a private prison it owns in Colorado to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison giant GEO ...

Hoppers wants its audience to care. It insists on it. Like many of Pixar’s all-timers, the animated film asks viewers young and old to wrestle with real conflicts: an eco-conscious dilemma (think 2009 ...

Southeast side residents gather to discuss community needs as developers push forward with a $9 billion quantum computing center.

The UI system and Northwestern agreed to scrap programs meant to uplift students and faculty from marginalized backgrounds.

In groups big and small, AACM reedist Ed Wilkerson has combined the joyous immediacy of early jazz with the daring collisions of the avant-garde.

Nearly a decade has passed since clarinetist James Falzone left Chicago to assume the post of professor of music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. But he keeps coming back.

The founder of the Instagram-based community archive talks about preserving snapshots of love, resilience, and everyday Latine life in Chicago.

Experimental musicians Michael Vallera and Steven Hess follow their impulses in the collaborative project Cleared.

Chicago four-piece Broken Left Foot are well-versed in several subgenres of punk and alternative rock, all of which commingled at Warped Tour 20 or 30 years ago. Even if all you know about front man ...

Inflation is rampant, jobs are vanishing, and the nation is divided between political extremes. The loudest voices are on the far right, which has gained a power hold, in part by scapegoating ...

Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined the staff in 2012 and became a senior staff writer in 2020. Galil mainly covers music, with a singular focus on Chicago ...