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The evolution of the southeast side’s sharpest clothing boutique has shaped its status as a trendsetter for almost four decades. Essential Elements, which started as a jewelry and accessory store, now ...

The Chicago House Run debuts with six on-route DJ stations, Smut take big swings on the first album they wrote as Chicagoans, ...

Young Fathers’ score for 28 Years Later—the legacy sequel to 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007)—is phenomenal.

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of ...

The former NBA player's unconventional self-expression had an impact on LGBTQ+ people when he played for the Chicago Bulls.

This synth-heavy Chicago rock band make music for people who want to have fun even when they’re morbidly concerned about the ...

In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

Backed by a revolving cast of musicians he calls the Nephews, TJ Kennedy belts out weathered, sloppy outlaw country, with an ...

Behind a curtain in his workshop is an enormous retro memory processing server, which Salvador sometimes plugs himself into ...

A musical about Larry Walters (aka "Lawn Chair Larry") makes its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare.

Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick at Steppenwolf leans a little heavy on the whimsical metaphors, but the performances are ...