In a digital landscape saturated with subscription paywalls and premium content, it’s easy to overlook the value of a ...

Return to the Rec Room,” a Michael Smith retrospective at Soccer Club Club, shows the artist's longheld interest in the absurdity of life.

Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught our ear—including by Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Bussy ...

Christian JaLon is a South side Chicago Native. She is a singer/songwriter, poet, and published author ("'Amen" by C.J.

Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at First Floor Theater combines environmental and existential dread with mundane frustrations.

A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

As masked federal agents kidnap people off the streets, a state bill to protect medical face coverings sits in limbo. In ...

Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the emperor Hadrian, tells his own story in Scandalous Boy at Open Space Arts.

Golden Street cofounder Son Amoz wants his organization to build a spiritually rooted ecosystem for musicians, muralists, and ...

Yasen Peyankov's staging of Endgame at Facility Theatre sets incredibly high emotional stakes for all the characters.

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...