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Shades of Boredom

May 12, 2025May 6, 2025 by Chicago Magazine

Newly published images by photographer Mark Steinmetz highlight everyday life in a Chicago of 35 years ago.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Arts & Culture, City Life

The Wild, Wild Midwest

May 15, 2025April 29, 2025 by Chicago Magazine

You don’t need to hop on a plane to California or Colorado to find adventure. Whether you want to spend your vacation surfing, climbing, or biking, here are 12 epic getaways within a few hours’ drive.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Arts & Culture, Travel

“House Music Is the Chocolate”

April 28, 2025 by Sarah Steimer

Producer-DJ Vince Lawrence takes center stage in a new documentary about the birth of house.

Categories Culture & Travel Tags Arts & Culture

May Agenda

April 30, 2025April 22, 2025 by Lynette Smith
Mucca Pazza

Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture

Found in Translation

April 23, 2025April 9, 2025 by Lynette Smith
Charles Newell and Mickle Maher bring the black-and-white world of Jason Lutes’s ‘Berlin’ to life.

Two theater veterans forge their own artistic path by freely adapting the acclaimed graphic novel, Berlin.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture

A Castle Made From Gum

April 9, 2025April 8, 2025 by Lynette Smith
A vintage photo of the Wrigley Building

A faulty clock. An aerial shortcut. Second-floor jam sessions. Here’s what we learned from a new book about the history of the iconic Wrigley Building.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Arts & Culture, City Life, Five Things

The Mighty Del-Crustaceans

April 17, 2025April 8, 2025 by Lynette Smith
Band memories (clockwise from left): The first record (1975), performing at the Germania Club in the late ’70s, and a headline-making gig at Northwestern in 1972

For 54 years, through raucous parties and life’s twists and turns, the author has rocked on with his band.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Chicago Stories, City Life, Culture

The Brutality and Nonsensicality

April 10, 2025April 1, 2025 by Lynette Smith
Michael Shannon directing ‘Eric LaRue’

Michael Shannon makes his leap into film directing with a Chicago-born drama about the parents of a school shooter.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture

April Agenda

April 1, 2025March 25, 2025 by Lynette Smith

Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture

Ernie, Minnie … and Charles?

March 25, 2025March 13, 2025 by Lynette Smith
Clockwise from top: Anson, Doby, Miñoso, the Wedgewood Hotel, and Banks

A new book highlights Chicago’s pivotal role in both upholding and breaking baseball’s color barrier. Here’s what we learned.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture, Five Things
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