The Year’s Best Books About Chicago, by Chicagoans
From a Black Mirror-esque sci-fi mindbender, to a history of a newspaper that changed American history, these books do our city proud.
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Why Creative People Should Stay in Chicago and Not Flee to the Coasts
Take it from Austin Vesely, Hebru Brantley, and Andrew Barber—Chicago is the place to be right now.
The Top Five Things to Do This Week
Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth, Randolph Street’s Holiday Market, Jerry Seinfeld, and Voices Heard
The Shut-In’s Guide to Winter
Stay warm and entertain yourself with new releases to watch, listen to, and read.
Rites of Passage
Photographer Alyssa Schukar spent the past year documenting the many ways people in this city mark pivotal moments in their lives. Each of the scenes she captured, described here in her words, tells a compelling story.
Chicago's Longest-Running Stage Show Is Ending. Now What?
After a surprising and controversially abrupt end, Neo-Futurists artistic director Kurt Chiang talks the company’s future without its flagship show.
How the Hypocrites Made a Feminist Cinderella Even More Feminist
In Andra Velis Simon’s Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes, there’s no prince, no ball, and no glass slipper.
The 5 Biggest Buys by Chicago Art Museums in 2016
Love a good shopping spree? This year Chicago’s cultural institutions nabbed unique pieces from around the world.
The Top Five Things to Do This Week in Chicago
AIDS America, Chicago Elite Classic, The Electric Stage, Marc Maron, and Stevie Nicks
65 Things to Do in Chicago in December
Illumination Photo: Michael Hudson Through Dec. 11 Theater The Complete Deaths Navy Pier Not counting the nameless extras downed during war scenes, there are 74 deaths in the plays of William Shakespeare. The UK physical comedy company Spymonkey puts them all into a single production, with a comic faces-of-death look at the Bard’s myriad stabbings, … Read more