Keir Graff has turned his Newcity story on the history of the Fine Arts Building—our longest feature ever published—into a book published by Trope, coming this June. He’ll celebrate its release at the ...

James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, “will be returning to his role at the museum on [Monday] following the results of an investigation subsequent to a recent plane incident ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The strongest, most enduring parts of China’s Great Wall were the 5,500 miles built during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. One secret to their success was sticky rice, an ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced its 2025 edition of “21Minus” for June 14, from 1-6pm. The event “is an annual, daylong celebration of creativity curated by Chicago teens for ...

The Chicago Public Art Group has announced the appointment of Janice Bond as its new executive director. “A celebrated cultural architect, strategist and arts leader, Bond steps into this role with a ...

“After fourteen remarkable years as a driving force behind the fair, Tony Karman will step back from his role as director of Expo Chicago at the end of June. He will continue as president of the fair, ...

“It is with mixed emotions that I share that today is my last day at the MCA Chicago,” Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates posts on Instagram. “It’s not easy to close such an ...

Mayan Artifact Will Be Returned By National Museum of Mexican Art “A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly forty years,” reports WBEZ. The National ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument. It’s a Thursday ...