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Tag: Year in Review 2019
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Looking on the bright side
As the teens turn to the twenties, it’s a struggle to find a little cheer in the gloom.
Posted inArts & Culture
No one is alone: the year in dance
The best moments in dance this year focused on the power of community.
Posted inArts & Culture
To tell the truth: 2019 in theater
Four plays that recast history—collective and personal—with searing defiance.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Safe bet, sucker deal
The Chicago casino will raise far less money for the city than originally promised.
Posted inArts & Culture
Six visual art shows that made 2019 bearable
2020 has some big shoes to fill.
Posted inArts & Culture
Nine places for laughs in 2019 (and beyond)
Because every year we seem to need more and more comedic relief.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Making a transfer
2019 was a year of new beginnings in Chicago, and transportation was no exception.
Posted inMusic
Chicago’s best overlooked hip-hop of 2019
The shrinking of music media requires a new definition of “overlooked,” but even the strictest criteria admit a vast unexplored trove of riches.
Posted inArts & Culture
Live lit is what Chicago is all about
The best reading events of 2019 have been going strong for years.