Standing outside of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) architecture building on a hot day in August, the unexpected rhythms of trumpet, drums, and bass, float up from the ground floor, just ...

Seth Boustead speaks on how ACM's view of classical music as a living tradition informs its Thirsty Ears Festival and its new ...

When it comes to confidence about our looks, loyalty to and trust in those who care for our hair is crucial. Kecia Pointer, owner of Raze Up Barber Spa, knows just how to keep her clientele coming ...

The Chicago dance community gathers to celebrate and help artists in need, and Abbie Hoffman lives again at the Chopin.

The traveling exhibition “Between Sky and Sea” features photographs by Ismail Abu Hatab in Gaza since the start of the current genocide.

The rise of AI porn chat sites in the last several years, especially those designed to simulate romantic or erotic ...

The agency also said it was dropping a separate lawsuit that alleged a widespread practice by Chicago alderpeople of intentionally blocking affordable housing in white, north-side communities.  As ...

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, for event and organization announcements by noneditorial personnel, and for ...

On their newest, relatively somber songs, Stiebris and Waller repackage the intensity of their earlier material ...

Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.

The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, August 1979.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.