Days after the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, residents of nearby South Shore and Washington Park are still ...

The world premiere of this musical at the Goodman has star power and lots of laughs, but the slapstick overpowers the ...

For illusionist Jeanette Andrews, magic is the medium and the interaction between performer and audience is the artwork.

A dispute between a white couple and a Latine couple takes on bigger sociopolitical implications in Theatre Evolve's ...

This UNESCO World Heritage site in Collinsville, Illinois, lets visitors climb a 100-foot earthen mound built nearly a thousand years ago.

The underappreciated musician’s musicians in Hushdrops have carried on through the tragic loss of drummer Joe Camarillo.

IDHS grants that are supported by the Illinois Lottery’s specialty ticket have helped Fifth Street Renaissance to continue providing critical resources to some of the state’s most vulnerable and ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The one-room schoolhouse houses photographs, tools, and stories of immigrants and Black miners who followed coal to rural Illinois.

Horizons claims its inventory tops one million items—but how did that many records all end up in a tiny town an hour away from Rockford and even further from Peoria and Chicago? Fortuitously, in ...

Chicagoland's last surviving drive-in theater has $15 carload nights, a historic seven-story screen, and the kind of summer night you won’t forget.

It’s the 100th anniversary of Route 66, and in Chicago, you’re at the start of the Mother Road. A two-hour-and-change drive takes you to a colorful collection of statues illustrating their place in ...