Illinois joins 19 other states and DC in a lawsuit that challenges changes to Title X as unconstitutional.
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CSO negotiations resume, free concerts continue
The entire orchestra will play together in Woodlawn.
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UIC grad students strike for better pay
“We can’t pay rent or buy food with a tuition waiver.”
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CSO strike update: amid sour notes, another free public concert
As their strike grows increasingly discordant, CSO musicians make music.
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CSO musicians strike to retain their pensions
Symphony Center is silent as the orchestra hits the street.
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An American Dream tackles Japanese-American internment during WWII
Lyric Opera’s outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories.
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Contrarian architect Stanley Tigerman still roars
He shares his thoughts on on Mies, the Thompson Center, and the future of architecture.
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Bikers, simulated sex, and pole-dancing puppets pull Lyric’s Ariodante into the 20th century
Even with star Alice Coote out with a fever, Handel’s four-hour-long 1735 marathon was still worth seeing.
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Preservation Chicago’s seven most endangered historic buildings, plus two
Jackson Park and Thompson Center are holdovers from 2018.
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Lyric’s La Traviata is a triumph of true love—and Verdi’s music—even without its leading lady
It’s the date-night opera that made Julia Roberts cry in Pretty Woman.
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In one big weekend, Chicago Opera Theater shows off an opera in progress and a brand-new production
The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing is revelatory; The Scarlet Ibis is not.
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The lawsuit to prevent building the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park lives to fight another day in court
But Judge John Robert Blakey wants it resolved. Soon.
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Mayoral Arts Forum report: What Chicago Cultural Plan?
The arts community hears from (some of) the candidates.
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Cecil McDonald’s extraordinary photos of ordinary life
“In the Company of Black” is now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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Remembering industrial designer Charles Harrison
A tribute to the designer of the View-Master, the Dial-O-Matic, and the plastic garbage can—and the first black executive at Sears.