Today in Chicago culture: Monday, August 4, 2025.Ear Taxi Music Festival Returns Ear Taxi Festival, the Midwest’s largest celebration of new and experimental music, returns this fall for the first ...

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Today In Culture, Thursday, July 31, 2025: Eaves Opening At Lyric | Car-Free Days On Milwaukee Avenue | Cleve Carney Announces Hokusai Japan Fest by Ray Pride | July 31, 2025 ...

St. Joseph, Michigan’s Krasl Art Center will present “Hull-House Artists in Chicago and Beyond” from August 2 through September 28. Curated by Michael R. Hill, Ph.D., archivist, author, art collector ...

A bill proposed earlier this month, the Art Market Integrity Act (pdf), “would amend the Bank Secrecy Act to require art dealers and auction houses to comply with anti-money-laundering and ...

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MUSIC The Age Of Klaus Mäkelä “Not even thirty, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä is already the buzziest name in classical music. Now he’s set to usher in a new era at the helm of the Chicago Symphony ...

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An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

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 ...

While I ride CTA trains 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 and Blue routes from ...

By John Greenfield As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument ...