Artist Brandon Breaux’s Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month.
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Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs
The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.
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The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police is now an outdoor memorial in Chicago
On what would have been Rice’s 17th birthday, we chart the journey of the structure that his mother can still picture him playing under.
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Will the Green Line Arts Center help turn the south side into ‘Florence during the Renaissance’?
The new theater in Washington Park is the first performing arts center to open on the south side in 40 years.
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Theaster Gates is reopening a slicker Arts Bank this weekend
The refurbished bank will include a 19th-century bar, an improved library, and a brand-new multiartist show.
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Old Habits is bar food reborn
The kitchen at Avondale’s Ludlow Liquors is so good it gets its own name.
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Pianist Jason Moran drops a recording of Looks of a Lot, his collaboration with a slew of Chicago artists
The new version, available via Bandcamp, tightens up the one he premiered at Symphony Center in 2014 with Theaster Gates, Ken Vandermark, Katie Ernst, and the Kenwood Academy Jazz Band
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Lamar Moore takes the kitchen at the Currency Exchange Café
Theaster Gates’s Washington Park restaurant may be setting the stage for a soul-food comeback.
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Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut
Ben LaMar Gay took seven years to make Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, which fuses R&B, funk, jazz, electro, Brazilian music, and more.
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The Obama Foundation throws a summit
What the Obama Foundation’s summit revealed about its mission.
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The National Public Housing Museum’s long journey home
After 20 years of battling for its building, the nascent institution’s most significant challenges lie ahead.
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For Derrick Adams, black imagination is the future
In his solo show, the New York-based polymath artist uses installation, video, music, and collage to remix the archival holdings of the Stony Island Arts Bank.
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Black Scholars Salon with Thelma Golden, WhiskyFest Chicago kick-off, and more things to do this week
Open Books and Laugh, Karaoke Night, and more happenings from April 17-20.
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Facebook Live attackers charged with a hate crime, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper joins the DuSable Museum’s board of trustees.
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Illinois Democrats spend more than $3 million on new anti-Rauner ads, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Park District shuts down 445 outdoor drinking fountains with high lead levels.