Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

From June 25 to June 28, Synapse Arts presented 2026 New Works at Berger Park Cultural Center, featuring trace by Qū Jié 曲洁 ...

When I’m scrolling on Instagram, perusing party promo photos of people dancing in some south-side warehouse or West Town ...

For nearly a decade, the global media treated the high-profile death of Illinois socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack as a one-dimensional true-crime spectacle. Most accounts zeroed in on the gruesome ...

Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has ...

MUBI FEST returns to Chicago July 10–12 with a weekend of exclusive screenings, live music, and special events across The Salt Shed, Music Box Theatre, and Gene Siskel Film Center. Highlights include ...

The underappreciated musician’s musicians in Hushdrops have carried on through the tragic loss of drummer Joe Camarillo.

A three-day race brought together over a hundred couriers who raced, partied, and crashed their way through a revived ...

This UNESCO World Heritage site in Collinsville, Illinois, lets visitors climb a 100-foot earthen mound built nearly a thousand years ago.

Days after the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, residents of nearby South Shore and Washington Park are still ...

From the abandoned Zorn Brewery Complex to the South Shore Line ride down, this is the most underrated day trip on Lake Michigan.

IDHS grants that are supported by the Illinois Lottery’s specialty ticket have helped Fifth Street Renaissance to continue providing critical resources to some of the state’s most vulnerable and ...