Though it wasn't planned this way, there's a thread through most of the feature stories in this issue that's personal for me, ...

The MCA has announced “City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago,” opening on July 5. “The exhibition highlights Chicago’s essential yet often overlooked role in the stories of queer art and ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...