Singer-songwriter Ella Williams, a newly minted Chicagoan, celebrates her new Squirrel Flower album at Sleeping Village this weekend.
Tag: climate change
‘He’s a real one’
Chuy Garcia’s first term in Congress earns progressive accolades, honorary Squad membership
A music poll to start 2021
Did 2020 set the bar low enough that it’s safe to hope this year will be better?
How one woman revived the city’s most impressive natural ecosystem
Leslie Borns is adventure-ready, with sizable sunglasses and a big floppy hat protecting her from the sun above the Montrose Beach Dunes.
The comeback crane
Ornithologists have called the sandhill crane migration the most beautiful natural phenomenon in the United States.
Luftwerk mourn the vanishing ice caps with a Pritzker Pavilion installation
Luftwerk mourn the vanishing ice caps with a Pritzker Pavilion installation, beat-scene series Kinky Yeti throws itself a birthday party, and more.
The Incredible Melting Man on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Joe Schorgl for his band the Sueves.
Cook County sues pharmaceutical companies over opioid crisis, and other Chicago news
Also, the mother of police shooting victim Quintonio LeGrier is waiting for answers.
Todd Stroger drops out of race for Cook County Board president, and other Chicago news
Also, Obama returns to Chicago Tuesday for Emanuel climate change meeting.
Chicago deposits $20 million into the city’s last black-owned bank, and other news
Also, after the release of video, Kenneka Jenkins’s family and friends ask the FBI to investigate her death in hotel freezer.
An interview with the directors of An Inconvenient Sequel about how their movie got made
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk discuss their documentary, the sequel to the award-winning An Inconvenient Truth.
Emanuel launches new climate change section on city website using information deleted from EPA, and other Chicago news
Also, there’s speculation that Forrest Claypool’s days at Chicago Public Schools are numbered.
Obama’s first post-presidency speech and the March for Science were nonpartisan to a fault
There was no resistance to Trump’s agenda in Obama’s latest speech and the March for Science—just meek calls for truth and civility.
In case the weather doesn’t already have you thinking about summer, here’s Tennis
Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of Tennis offer summery sounds on the catchy new Yours Conditionally.