The UniverSoul Circus returned to Washington Park this year after a break during the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020, to the delight of families looking for a fun excursion. The organization features many BIPOC performers and offers clowns, motorcyclists, dance troupes, contortionists, aerial ballerinas, and plenty of interactive moments with the audience members so […]
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Festivals, fun, Foodball? Bingo!
Another few days of summer weather for the next week will surely bring Chicagoans out and about! Be safe, have fun, and consider one of these options as you make your plans. Fri 9/10 (open run): Theater Wit had a huge hit in 2015 with Anne Washburn’s apocalyptic black comedy, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, […]
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Reasonable doubt
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
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The Obama Center: opening in 2025
But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
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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.
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The Universal Togetherness Band’s omnivorous dance-funk got released three decades late
UTB mastermind Andre Gibson used years of free sessions with Columbia College audio engineering students to develop his far-reaching hybrid style.
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Community gardens beautify urban space, but some seek to transform urban society
Community organizers connect politics with plant care.
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The 20th Ward aldermanic race is rife with bad faith and good ideas
A Pritzker-backed machine operator, a rogue three-time candidate, a U of C darling, and lots of idealistic novices compete in a ward known for corruption.
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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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Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job
The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who’s fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.
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‘East-coasters butt out’ and more from the wildcat Obama Presidential Center debate
An emotionally symposium at the University of Chicago this week brought out many opinions but few solutions.
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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’s ‘clusters’ of unsolved strangling deaths near Washington Park and Garfield Park, and other news
Also, Chris Kennedy continues bold attack on Emanuel by mentioning Joe Berrios.
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‘Amy Krouse Rosenthal: A Beauty Salon’ at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Kyle Mooney at Thalia Hall, and more things to do this week in Chicago
Chanté Moore at the Promontory, the Chicago Park District’s Summer Dance-Off, and more happenings from July 10-13
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Carillonneurs play the world’s largest musical instruments—and they’re all but invisible
UIC grad student Hunter Chase competes in the first “open” competition for carillonneurs ever held in the United States.