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Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick at Steppenwolf leans a little heavy on the whimsical metaphors, but the performances are stellar.| Chicago Reader
Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick at Steppenwolf leans a little heavy on the whimsical metaphors, but the performances are stellar.| Chicago Reader
On their debut album as Juanita & Juan, Jungle Cruise, Bag and Powers sound so charming you’ll wish you were aboard their cruise ship.| Chicago Reader
Meg Remy is one of the most exciting producers in the indie-rock ecosystem, and nothing showcases the breadth of her talent as effectively as the solo pop project U.S. Girls.| Chicago Reader
Lifeguard's brand-new album Ripped and Torn strikes a balance between healthy optimism and weary disenchantment.| Chicago Reader
Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion continue to celebrate their 20th year with this kaleidoscopic all-day event at Epiphany Center for the Arts.| Chicago Reader
Black Ensemble Theater's latest musical tribute puts Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, and Patti LaBelle front and center.| Chicago Reader
In Jean Claudio's Memorabilia with Teatro Vista, an aging clown and inventor tries to salvage his memories.| Chicago Reader
Court's one-man retelling of the Homeric epic returns for a fourth and final time—with a longer litany of human carnage.| Chicago Reader
An early innovator in motion pictures comes into focus in Factory Theater's The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince.| Chicago Reader
Random acts of confusion and madness rule the roost at Second City e.t.c.'s 49th revuew, Chaos Theory of Everything.| Chicago Reader
The former NBA player's unconventional self-expression had an impact on LGBTQ+ people when he played for the Chicago Bulls.| Chicago Reader
Plus: The Illinois Secretary of State’s office decries the “illegal” use of license plate readers| Chicago Reader
“Icons” temporarily imagines a different world, in which the familiar dreams of individuals with Down syndrome become palpable to all.| Chicago Reader
The Illinois Lottery is nationally recognized for its pioneering work with specialty lottery tickets dedicated to raising awareness and funding for specific worthy causes that impact local communities. Nearly twenty years since it introduced its first-in-the-nation specialty ticket, dedicated to breast cancer support and research, the Illinois Lottery is making its biggest impact yet, through […]| Chicago Reader
I grew up internalizing homophobia, but meeting Bernard helped me grow.| Chicago Reader
How a South Side small business is delivering trust and opportunity.| Chicago Reader
Editor’s note for our Summer Theater and Arts Issue.| Chicago Reader
The abrupt closure of Passages’s preschool raises questions about its future at a time when other charter schools across the city are closing their doors.| Chicago Reader
Plus: CPD’s “peer-to-peer” visit with cops in Los Angeles and a new housing program for survivors of gender-based violence| Chicago Reader
Conceived by Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, the Jewish Museum of Chicago will be an anti-Zionist multigenerational arts and cultural space.| Chicago Reader
She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.| Chicago Reader
A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid Theatre.| Chicago Reader
An aging vaudevillian and a young Black man find an unlikely connection in Charles Smith's Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues.| Chicago Reader
John Hildreth's adaptation for Lifeline gives H.G. Wells's sci-fi classic a contemporary gloss and a local setting.| Chicago Reader
Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.| Chicago Reader
Matt & Ben imagines the bromance of Damon and Affleck right before Hollywood success (literally) falls in their laps.| Chicago Reader
Plus: State lawmakers break for the summer and the CHA sells more public land to private developers| Chicago Reader
In “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.| Chicago Reader
“Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the 1940s.| Chicago Reader
Opinion: For decades, Chicago has underinvested in transit while global cities have moved toward more efficient transportation systems.| Chicago Reader
Cydney Patrice Cleveland sports a pair of leopard overalls and steals the show on the sidewalk runways of Chicago.| Chicago Reader
Shoegaze prodigies Sunshy release their dazzling debut, and the 20th and final CHIRP Record Fair & Other Delights arrives on Saturday.| Chicago Reader
Plus: A new, free public shower program at 10 S. Kedzie and Alec Karakatsanis unpacks his latest book on copaganda| Chicago Reader
A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are still looking for closure.| Chicago Reader
As masked federal agents kidnap immigrants, a state bill to protect medical face coverings sits in limbo.| Chicago Reader
Mother Tania Whitfield thinks that Trump and the GOP proposed cuts to SNAP to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.| Chicago Reader
Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond the new pope.| Chicago Reader
Situated at 79th and Clyde, Chicago Body Shop neighbors a few tire shops, but its mission is not to tune up your car, but a biological vehicle: your body.| Chicago Reader
The onetime Chicago experimental playwright's 2006 play, The End of Reality, finds a fitting home with Theatre Y.| Chicago Reader
Shay Youngblood's autobiographical story of a Black girl raised by her elders in the south returns to Pegasus Theatre Chicago.| Chicago Reader
Blank Theatre Company's revival of Sweet Charity honors the spirit of Bob Fosse and features a miraculous performance in the title role.| Chicago Reader
In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.| Chicago Reader
Gender Play, or What You Will at Steppenwolf is s a defiant and exuberant celebration of queerness and the Shakespearean canon.| Chicago Reader
E. Patrick Johnson's ethnographic Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women gets a stirring adaptation with Fleetwood-Jourdain.| Chicago Reader
International Mr. Leather, the Randolph Street Market kicks off, plus more activities to add to your datebook.| Chicago Reader
Plus: Chicago History Museum workers allege retaliation for union organizing| Chicago Reader
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In their debut album, the trio sound energized by the act of rapping for one another—these three friends don’t seem to need any audience but themselves in order to get hyped.| Chicago Reader
This year's Hyde Park Jazz Festival lineup is a weekend of music that any major city on Earth would be proud to call its own.| Chicago Reader
