DCASE launched the Chicago House Music Fest at Pritzker Pavilion on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, after several years of ...

The traveling exhibition “Between Sky and Sea” features photographs by Ismail Abu Hatab in Gaza since the start of the ...

The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, ...

Seth Boustead speaks on how ACM's view of classical music as a living tradition informs its Thirsty Ears Festival and its new ...

Milou Moon is the project of Emily McGill, a French American originally from Chicago who has lived partly in Melbourne, ...

Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus ...

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2000 play about faith and punishment, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, feels newly relevant at City Lit ...

Xerobot are also touring again. In December, they dropped a marvelous video of their first rehearsal in 25 years, where they ...

On their newest, relatively somber songs, Stiebris and Waller repackage the intensity of their earlier material ...

Billy Hinton is better known as a seventh-degree black belt, but he also released a string of obscure but highly sought-after ...

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