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Posted inFood & Drink

Yuta Katsuyama is the once and future rice ball king of Chicago

by Mike Sula August 17, 2020August 18, 2021

His Onigiri Shuttle Kororin rolls to a stop next week—but he’ll be back.

Posted inArts & Culture

The many dreams of Wesley Willis

by Leor Galil September 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Matthew Rachman Gallery documents the architectural creations of Chicago’s ultimate outsider artist.

Posted inNews & Politics

More money no problems

by Maya Dukmasova March 28, 2019August 18, 2021

For the first time in decades, Chicago has a say in who its treasurer will be. But what the hell does the treasurer even do?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

CTA reverses its decision after community outcry, giving new hope for the 31st Street bus

by John Greenfield August 30, 2018August 18, 2021

After announcing that the pilot would end this week, the CTA is giving the route a reprieve

Posted inColumns & Opinion

What’s the deal with the 31st Street bus?

by John Greenfield August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

A pilot run seems to have fizzled, and Third Ward alderman Pat Dowell is arguing in favor of canceling the service.

Posted inArts & Culture

Roseland’s transformation captured in 1970 student film

by Dmitry Samarov June 5, 2018August 18, 2021

The footage of Old Fashioned Days on South Michigan Avenue will become the centerpiece of a new documentary.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Chicago Architecture Biennial: Hard to understand but easy to enjoy

by Deanna Isaacs September 27, 2017August 18, 2021

You’ll need as much assistance as the CAB provides to fully experience the Cultural Center show.

Posted inMusic

Fall’s best concerts and music festivals

by Reader staff September 3, 2016August 18, 2021

Chance the Rapper’s Magnificent Coloring Day, Seu Jorge, and more of the season’s best live music

Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller with their 130 found photos
Posted inArts & Culture

How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world

by Aimee Levitt August 27, 2014August 18, 2021

For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer behind images from 1940s India.

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, on the banks of the Fox River in Plano
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House may be getting a needed lift

by Deanna Isaacs June 10, 2014August 18, 2021

A move to Chicago might be better for Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece.

Cuneo Hospital campus, 1970s
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Next on the hit list: Edo Belli’s Cuneo Hospital complex

by Deanna Isaacs July 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Edo Belli’s mid-20th-century Cuneo Hospital complex is headed for destruction.

Posted inBlogs

Thomas Dyja talks about The Third Coast and Chicago’s glory years

by Aimee Levitt April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

The author discusses his new book about Chicago’s postwar heyday.

Posted inBlogs

Requiem for an Ugly Building

by Whet Moser September 9, 2010August 19, 2021

A Chicago Sojourn says goodbye to Loyola’s Damen Hall.

Posted inBlogs

Lightplay

by Ed M. Koziarski February 11, 2010August 19, 2021

László Moholy-Nagy’s 1930 experimental short “Lightplay: Black-White-Gray” screens at the Loyola University Museum of Art.

Posted inBlogs

What People Talk About When they Talk About Architecture

by Whet Moser November 18, 2009August 19, 2021

I agree with Blair Kamin that Mies van der Rohe’s Test Cell is ugly. Personally – and I am a rank, uncultured philistine as far as architecture goes – I’m not particularly fond of IIT or Mies van der Rohe, whose buildings I associate with fuck-you money and bureaucracy. Which I know is not his […]

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