“I miss it. The home is heaven. Who doesn’t miss their heaven?” A Palestinian man, displaced from his home due to Israel’s ongoing devastation against his country, tells the photojournalist Ismail Abu ...

When it comes to confidence about our looks, loyalty to and trust in those who care for our hair is crucial. Kecia Pointer, owner of Raze Up Barber Spa, knows just how to keep her clientele coming ...

The agency also said it was dropping a separate lawsuit that alleged a widespread practice by Chicago alderpeople of intentionally blocking affordable housing in white, north-side communities.  As ...

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Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.

Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, contains 25 years of the work of Paul Pfeiffer.

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The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, August 1979.

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On their newest, relatively somber songs, Stiebris and Waller repackage the intensity of their earlier material ...

A textile artist living with cancer searches for her roots in Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine at Arts Judaica.

Xerobot are also touring again. In December, they dropped a marvelous video of their first rehearsal in 25 years, where they ...