Artist-designer Bob Faust’s “Ways and Means” is a “participatory public initiative that reclaims and reimagines the American ...

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): There are only two types of humans, right? Some of us serve beauty, truth and goodness, while the rest pledge their allegiance to illusions, lies and shadows. Our planet is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

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 ...

$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 ...

It’s a special moment in Chicago, as we’re getting two new museums this spring. The National Public Housing Museum opened in early April and I was able to get a peek at a press event; it exceeded my ...