The world premiere of this musical at the Goodman has star power and lots of laughs, but the slapstick overpowers the ...

Days after the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, residents of nearby South Shore and Washington Park are still ...

The Wisconsin Dells remains a popular midwest vacation destination, but Nellie Kluz’s 2024 documentary explores its murky ...

For illusionist Jeanette Andrews, magic is the medium and the interaction between performer and audience is the artwork.

A dispute between a white couple and a Latine couple takes on bigger sociopolitical implications in Theatre Evolve's ...

The underappreciated musician’s musicians in Hushdrops have carried on through the tragic loss of drummer Joe Camarillo.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

This UNESCO World Heritage site in Collinsville, Illinois, lets visitors climb a 100-foot earthen mound built nearly a thousand years ago.

It’s the 100th anniversary of Route 66, and in Chicago, you’re at the start of the Mother Road. A two-hour-and-change drive takes you to a colorful collection of statues illustrating their place in ...

Committing to the 20-mile drive to Little Palestine offered the perfect amount of yap time with my mom on the phone. She loved the idea of a “broke day trip,” as we weren’t really a vacation family.

The liquidation floor at Horizons Music occupies about 5,000 square feet. Credit: Kirk Williamson I hadn’t heard of Mendota before March, when I discovered a reason to visit. The town is about 90 ...

The one-room schoolhouse houses photographs, tools, and stories of immigrants and Black miners who followed coal to rural Illinois.