Opinion: For decades, Chicago has underinvested in transit while global cities have moved toward more efficient ...

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe’s coheadlining summer tour is an intergenerational celebration of gender-expansive Black women for the ages.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

When those emotions include angry despair at the state of your whole fucking species, you’ve got to play hard enough to shake ...

Bailey often pairs conversational lyrics with her twinkling harp in a way that evokes childhood innocence and nostalgia, and her voice sometimes sounds like she’s on the brink of tears.

Universities are prime sites of dissent, critique, and critical thinking. And this is exactly what the Trump administration ...

Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the emperor Hadrian, tells his own story in Scandalous Boy at Open Space Arts.

In a digital landscape saturated with subscription paywalls and premium content, it’s easy to overlook the value of a ...

Return to the Rec Room,” a Michael Smith retrospective at Soccer Club Club, shows the artist's longheld interest in the absurdity of life.

Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught our ear—including by Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Bussy ...

Christian JaLon is a South side Chicago Native. She is a singer/songwriter, poet, and published author ("'Amen" by C.J. Funches). JaLon began posting covers on YouTube at the age of 13, and currently ...