Spring exhibition in Chicago, in seeking a shared sensibility of what unifies us, provide canopy cover from the chaos of ...

In 2013 cellist Tomeka Reid founded the Chicago Jazz String Summit to honor those who’d come before and spotlight upcoming ...

With any major accomplishment, it’s the journey that matters, not the destination—and Liz Cooper knows that as well as anyone ...

It felt inevitable that violist Whitney Johnson, cellist Lia Kohl, and violinist Macie Stewart would form a trio. Their ...

Chicago singer-songwriter Gia Margaret released her disarming debut,There’s Always Glimmer, in 2018, but since then her voice ...

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

Through Museum of Me, the ethereal metalsmith and YouTuber remakes her hometown as a museum of romance and private ritual.

A sampling of performances that highlight how Asian American artists in Chicago are creating a new wave of work that is "post ...

As this noisy rock subgenre has surged in popularity, young midwestern artists—Sunshy, Griefeater, Interlay—have played a key role in its evolution.

Organizers are calling on everyone in the city to embrace the national “no work, no school, no shopping” day of protest.

Fire and Clay, Will Quam's debut book, is part history, part architectural study, part bricklaying for dummies.

Plus: The newly renamed Girls Rock! Chicago holds a fundraising auction, and postpunks Stalled celebrate album two.