Artist-designer Bob Faust’s “Ways and Means” is a “participatory public initiative that reclaims and reimagines the American flag through typographically-driven flag designs, transforming one of the ...

At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she rose from curator of American art to deputy director.” “After hiding in plain sight on ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Archaeologists studying ancient wells have discovered that some weren’t finished in a single effort. Communities might dig to the current water table, use the well for years ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in the coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior ...

$50,000 “Anonymous Was a Woman” Grant To Candida Alvarez “Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed fifteen artists who will ...

When Ted Erikson passed away earlier this year, he left behind a legacy of swimming accomplishments. He also took a bit of Chicago history with him. Ted was a fixture among the swimmers at Promontory ...

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 ...

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 ...

A “nineteenth-century Halsted Street building” in Lincoln Park “was Imagist painter Roger Brown’s residence and studio,” marks Block Club. A push to landmark the building began after the School of the ...

The Art Institute of Chicago, which is open until 8pm every Thursday night, is launching a new program every third Thursday of the month, where special activities and programming will be presented by ...

Lou Raizin has a big idea. It’s not the first time. The impresario, who leads Broadway in Chicago, was a catalyst in the creation of Millennium Park, and before that, the Loop Theater District. Lou’s ...