Currency Exchange Cafe Archives

D-Composed redefines classical music

Chicago string quartet D-Composed takes chamber music outside the institutions that have long excluded Black musicians and audiences.

The kitchen at Avondale’s Ludlow Liquors is so good it gets its own name.

Theaster Gates’s Washington Park restaurant may be setting the stage for a soul-food comeback.

This was a transformative year for Chicago’s art world.

The Currency Exchange Café is part of the artist’s ongoing project to bring art to Washington Park.