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

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

The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival's developmental Puppet Lab offers support and connections for emerging ...

A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, ...

Golden Street cofounder Son Amoz wants his organization to build a spiritually rooted ecosystem for musicians, muralists, and ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...

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.