Filmmaker Nancy De Los Santos remembers the civil rights and labor icon who she had the pleasure of knowing over four decades ...

After four EPs that revealed a fire in the belly, Yaelokre dropped a riveting debut full-length, Foreword (Atlantic), in ...

Grabadolandia, a free educational printmaking festival run by the IGC, wants to inspire people to engage in “printmaking as a ...

Sloane Murphy writes like she lives in a tavern on a vinyl barstool that’s been desiccated by years spent soaking up other ...

Overview: Prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to disclose when officers have a history of misconduct, lying, or ...

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A coalition of more than 55 organizations wants Cook County to freeze spending on the sheriff and state’s attorney amid a $550 million deficit and redirect the money to public defenders and violence ...

Stephanie Alison Walker's world premiere at Steppenwolf combines a comedy of manners with a sharp look at women's identity ...

Can a legal settlement actually change a workplace, or does it just change the paperwork? By Devyn-Marshall Brown I didn’t expect my first time at a strip club to go the way it went. I also didn’t ...

New York City–based dance producer and multi-instrumentalist Takuya Nakamura started playing trumpet as a child in Japan and fell in love with jazz while growing up. This brought him to Boston in the ...

The artists in "New Forms of Survivance" are finding new ways to “remain themselves" and "preserve their own cultural traditions." ...

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