The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of the hottest names in rap.

Coalesce’s music feels like a bitter black mass whose apocalyptic textures are countered only by the band’s dark humor.

With her long-gestating debut album, The Star, east-side rapper Asha Omega speaks to the importance of self-knowledge and healing.

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Bump in the Night Theatre's Jump Scares, Vol. 1 offers a sampler platter of spooky stories in an intimate setting.

Locally made goods, unique experiences, and Chicago organizations to support with your shopping list plus tarot! Tattoos! Puppies!

Counters, drawers, shelves, the refrigerator-freezer, and the second fridge (the back porch) spill over with brightly labeled jars, bottles, and tins—the idiosyncratic, shelf-stable output of local ...

Leather artisan Amir Badri maintains a workshop in his home in Mayfair, where he accepts customs jobs and repairs.

Founders, friends, and affiliates of Chicago hip-hop label Closed Sessions use its 15th anniversary to reflect on the ...

A sturdy exhibition of photographs and objects born of the sprawling practice of Frank Lloyd Wright has opened at the ...

Shedd Aquarium is the ninth Chicago-area cultural institution to unionize with AFSCME Council 31 in the past three years. Now ...

Works by artist vanessa german on view at the Logan Center aim to transport viewers into a space of vulnerability, curiosity, ...