The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.

The writer, artist, philanthropist, and activist leaves a lasting legacy in Chicago's theater and LGBTQ+ communities.

At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what ...

Illinois basically has two regions: Chicago and “downstate.” Dense Chicago is reliably Democratic, whereas downstate skews ...

Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother.

Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as ...

Rabbitology is the nom de plume of Nat Timmerman, a University of Michigan student who has spent the past two years ...

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Ju-Blick has long been recognized in the scene for his powerful flows, but he only finally stepped into music full-time in ...

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Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never ...