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Curator, artist, and architect Janice Bond as featured in 28 Days of Greatness.
Posted inArts & Culture

Celebrate everyday Black heroes with 28 Days of Greatness

by Tara C. Mahadevan February 23, 2021August 18, 2021

Artist Brandon Breaux’s Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month.

Posted inArts & Culture

Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs

by Arionne Nettles August 31, 2020August 18, 2021

The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.

Posted inNews & Politics

The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police is now an outdoor memorial in Chicago

by Matt Ford June 25, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Will the Green Line Arts Center help turn the south side into ‘Florence during the Renaissance’?

by Catey Sullivan November 13, 2018August 18, 2021

The new theater in Washington Park is the first performing arts center to open on the south side in 40 years.

Posted inBlogs

Theaster Gates is reopening a slicker Arts Bank this weekend

by Deanna Isaacs April 25, 2018August 18, 2021

The refurbished bank will include a 19th-century bar, an improved library, and a brand-new multiartist show.

Posted inFood & Drink

Old Habits is bar food reborn

by Mike Sula April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBlogs

Pianist Jason Moran drops a recording of Looks of a Lot, his collaboration with a slew of Chicago artists

by Peter Margasak March 9, 2018August 18, 2021

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

Posted inFood & Drink

Lamar Moore takes the kitchen at the Currency Exchange Café

by Mike Sula March 7, 2018August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBlogs

Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut

by Peter Margasak March 5, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

The Obama Foundation throws a summit

by Deanna Isaacs November 3, 2017August 18, 2021

What the Obama Foundation’s summit revealed about its mission.

Posted inNews & Politics

The National Public Housing Museum’s long journey home

by Maya Dukmasova July 5, 2017August 18, 2021

After 20 years of battling for its building, the nascent institution’s most significant challenges lie ahead.

Posted inArts & Culture

For Derrick Adams, black imagination is the future

by Danielle A. Scruggs June 20, 2017August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Black Scholars Salon with Thelma Golden, WhiskyFest Chicago kick-off, and more things to do this week

by Brianna Wellen April 17, 2017August 18, 2021

Open Books and Laugh, Karaoke Night, and more happenings from April 17-20.

Posted inBlogs

Facebook Live attackers charged with a hate crime, and other Chicago news

by Robin Amer January 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Chance the Rapper joins the DuSable Museum’s board of trustees.

Posted inBlogs

Illinois Democrats spend more than $3 million on new anti-Rauner ads, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd October 20, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the Chicago Park District shuts down 445 outdoor drinking fountains with high lead levels.

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