Things to do in Chicagoland including an adults only set from a legendary drag queen, museum exhibitions, pop-ups, heavy metal yoga, and more ...

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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.

The Block Museum’s “Woven Being” is expansive yet concise, not so much a group exhibition as a mapping of diverse but related Indigenous art.

On April 1, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office began shuttering one of the country’s largest and most restrictive electronic monitoring programs.

The theme of the Chicago edition of Mubi Fest 2025 is Lost In Translation. The weekend’s diverse, carefully curated film selection explores the universal experience of not quite connecting with others ...

MFnMelo is a Pivot member. Poem curated by Frsh Waters. Frsh Waters from Chicago's Westside is a writer, performance artist, & community outreach coordinator for Chicago youth arts non-profit John ...

Pictoria Vark celebrates the release of the project's second full-length, Nothing Sticks, with an Empty Bottle show on Sunday.

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The artistic director's newest show, Scary Town, draws on family secrets and the anthropomorphic storybook style of Richard Scarry.

Plus: Pritzker vetoes a bill to protect warehouse workers, Tony’s Fresh Market rejects union push, and more labor news from ...

At an April 5 meeting of the Seventh Police District Council, member Dion McGill called on the state’s attorney’s office to immediately suspend the program, conduct a comprehensive racial equity ...