The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago has announced the fourteenth issue of Portable Gray. “Pope.L: The Chicago Years” is a hardcover edition of their ...

D. Lamar Preston’s “Gifted to Me” sculpture is on display at 62nd and Stony near the Hyde Park Academy High School, reports WBBM-TV. “Preston was selected for the Richard Hunt Award, which honors a ...

Today in Chicago culture: Monday, July 7, 2025.FILM & TELEVISION “The Bear” Renewed For Fifth Season Further montages of familiar Chicago imagery and sensations of kitchen PTSD will return, relays ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the days before lighthouses, some coastal communities used “fire beacons”—elevated structures where people tended open flames to guide sailors. In the coming weeks, Aries ...

DINING & DRINKING Crust Fund Pizza Putting Caviar On A Special Pie “One of the city’s best pizzamakers is about to cross an unusual milestone and is celebrating with a wild pizza laced with ...

Bette Cerf Hill, a cultural icon, writes a story about her journey in Chicago, highlighting her personal "bests." ...

The Newtons were extreme collectors. During the early 1980s, I visited their four-story, eighteen-room house in Aurora filled with antiques. A secret bookshelf door in the basement opened to a ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.

His thrice-yearly World Explorer magazine describes itself “Strange Tales of Discovery…and More Far-Out Adventures in Faraway Places.” A recent issue features a long story by Childress on Borobudur, ...