After a $10 million renovation, the museum will highlight 92 works by 22 Chicago artists. We have a guide to three of the ...

Celebrate the return of warm weather at the annual Mayfest in Lincoln Park. This outdoor fest is a “celebration of the ...

A few blocks away, on 19th Street, is another bookstore that’s progressive in its own way. Open Books, a massive used ...

From stories steeped in the rhythms of the city to a lighthearted romance, these new novels by Chicago-connected authors ...

If you, like me, are a fan of the Apple TV+ series Silo, then you probably give fewer props to the wooden acting and slow plotting than the amazing set design. In it, nuclear fallout shelters are ...

In these divisive political times, there is one thing that both the Left and the Right share: their disdain for white liberals. Kevin M. Schultz, the 50-year-old chair of the history department at ...

What are your favorite spots for seafood? For being so far from an ocean, Chicago is a sneaky-good seafood town. Freshly shucked oysters are everywhere — Obélix does a particularly nice job ...

How a couple’s passion for books spurred not only a romance but a business embraced by local authors.

For so many food businesses, COVID proved that necessity is the mother of invention. At the West Loop’s CH Distillery (564 W. Randolph St.), this meant an interesting pivot toward, of all things ...