I met James Elder in the early 1980s when he was a creative writing student at Columbia College Chicago, who was well known as a gifted writer. Many years later, in the middle of my first interview I ...

Today In Culture, Friday, January 5, 2024: Unrest at WTTW | John Manion’s South American Redux | Howlin’ Wolf’s Home by Ray Pride | January 5, 2024 ...

“The Union League of Chicago is selling its prized Monet painting, according to a letter sent to members” and published by Politico’s Playbook. “Funds from the sale will go toward renovating rooms, ...

With more candidates for Chicago mayor in the February 26 primary than players on a football team, we’re all being bombarded with “issues,” with “priorities,” with “policies” and “plans.” But you have ...

FILM & TELEVISION Alamo Drafthouse Slotted For Wrigleyville Ground Zero Chicago is slated to be one of multiple new locations for the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater chain that has about forty ...

“Wrecking the Thompson Center robs Chicago of a one-of-a-kind building, taking with it that soaring, spectacular, glass-topped atrium,” writes Lee Bey in an earnest, detailed passage of advocacy at ...

As the sun dips beneath the rooftops on Throop, Kevin wakes, yawns and stretches across the asphalt. He sniffs, tasting the usual street delicacies on the air: Birrieria Reyes de Ocotlan’s beef cheek, ...

Expo Chicago Influence Expanding Under Frieze? “For its twelfth edition, Expo Chicago is strengthening its global ties via a collaboration with Kiaf, [the Korean International Art Fair], while ...

“It took fifteen years to complete the Riverwalk. Part of it was the lack of maintenance on Lower Wacker and part of it was the water,” architect Carol Ross Barney tells Chicago magazine. “The old ...

Today In Culture, Thursday, May 22, 2025: Jeanne Gang On Reshaping Cities | Frank Lloyd Wright Cruises | Two Latino Theater Festivals Paused by Ray Pride | May 22, 2025 ...

Vanja V. Malloy, the Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, announced the appointment of Meg Jackson Fox as Director of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry ...

Is The Art World Preparing For A Possible Trump Return? In a second term, Trump “might cut arts funding and hamper diversity efforts, but his actual plans remain vague,” writes Artnet. “Given the ...