Update as of 4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 26, 2023: Abhijeet’s name was previously misspelled in several places in this article and has since been corrected. And the Vanguard Awards were previously categorized as posthumously awarded; this is not entirely the case as several awards will be given to living people. The Reader regrets the […]
Tag: nightlife
Posted inNews & Politics
Drag performers join Berlin Nightclub employees in protest
At 8:30 PM on the first Friday of August, prominent drag performer Irregular Girl was putting on her lashes, making a home cocktail, and waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up for her monthly event, Strapped (Berlin Nightclub’s premiere dance party catering to lesbians of all genders), when she decided to cancel the show. […]
Posted inMusic
Chicago’s 1920s nightlife incubated world-changing musical and social experiments
The Roaring Twenties have often been portrayed as a time of wealth, glamor, and social change. Technological advances, including more widespread electrification and increased use of automobiles, plus the growth of mass media such as radio and movies, drove a booming economy—though then as now the benefits were inequitably distributed. Inspired by movie stars and […]
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Party photo crew GlitterGuts take to Patreon to survive the nightlife drought
Party photo crew GlitterGuts take to Patreon to survive the nightlife drought, Hali Palombo creates otherworldly collages from antique audio cylinders, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts
On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.
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Kim Foxx drafts legislation allowing a second review of fatal police shootings, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Teachers Union is planning a May Day rally.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas
Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
Posted inCity Life
What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland
What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland
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Welcome to the B Side of our Best of Chicago issue
Reader critics pick 38 wonderful things from Chicago’s music and nightlife scenes.
Posted inMusic
An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
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One stunning reason to drop in at “They Seek a City”
Archibald J. Motley’s “Nightlife” in a perfect setting is reason enough to visit the Art Institute of Chicago’s migration exhibit, “They Seek a City.”
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The venue formerly known as Pancho’s
Logan Square venue Pancho’s changes its name (and lots of other things) to become Township