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Tag: Hyde Park
Posted inMusic
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival takes it to the streets
With short sets from small groups in unexpected spots, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival creates a communal experience that’s pandemic safe.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A challenging and memorable bike ride around Chicago’s exact city limits
Cycling, sightseeing, and snacking from Rogers Park to Edison Park, Mount Greenwood to Hegewisch
Posted inFood & Drink
Virtue Restaurant’s Erick Williams confronts a dusty dive-bar standby
He finds a classic, simple solution for eggs in a pickle.
Posted inNews & Politics
Leaked Zoom meeting reveals landlords concerned over staff ‘decimation’ and optics of ‘stepping’ on tenants
As tenant calls for rent freezes grow louder amid the pandemic, Chicago landlords contemplate their options.
Posted inMusic
Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
Posted inArts & Culture
Big, unbuilt plans
A civic center in River North, a concrete ribbon that split Hyde Park north from Woodlawn, and a third World’s Fair on the lakefront
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Note from an editor
About four years ago, the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University mounted an exhibition of photographs from the Reader’s black-and-white era, which ended in 2004. The gallery is small, maybe three rooms, and on opening night, it was packed with old Reader people, many of whom had flown back to Chicago from wherever they’d moved to […]
Posted inCity Life
Chicago’s animals gone wild
Fence-hopping sea lions, a chilled-out coyote, and more animal exploits from history
Posted inMusic
A brief oral history of the Silver Room Block Party
Since moving to Hyde Park, the Silver Room Block Party has blossomed into one of Chicago’s most important cultural institutions.
Posted inArts & Culture
From the Bubbly Creek festival to sculptures made from straws
A roundup of art events happening this weekend
Posted inCity Life
Miss Teen Wordpower
The story of forgotten Chicago vaudevillian and superfast typist Birdie Reeve
Posted inArts & Culture
Meet Nikko Washington, the painter and ace bowler in the Save Money collective.
The Hyde Park-raised artist wants to put his own spin on depicting the black experience.
Posted inBlogs
Lala Lala and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chicago Votes’s Give a Shit and more goings on 9/28-9/30