15+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1823+ words) For nearly a century and a half, people entered the gates of Joliet Correctional Center because the state sent them there. On the last day of April this year, people paid their way in to watch a baseball game. For…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (392+ words) By 5 PM a line was snaking around the dining room of an Avondale restaurant. The ones who showed up early got what they were hungry for. Anyone who crawled in after 7 PM was out of luck. The animals had cleaned…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (31+ words) Chicago Reader Herr God Widemouth, Indent, and Hearthands open. Sun 8/9, 8 PM, Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, $15.77, 21+...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (58+ words) Chicago Reader Lila Iké Matt B and DJ Blair Elise open. Thu 8/6, 6:30 PM, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph, free, all ages Jamie Ludwig (she/her) joined the Chicago Reader in 2017 and is currently the projects editor. [email protected]...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (97+ words) Leor Galil (he/him) is a senior writer for the Chicago Reader, which has published his work since 2010. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, the Washington Post, The A.V. Club, Forbes.com, and many publications that have since gone defunct; he's…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (872+ words) Chicago Reader When looking at Los Angeles artist Richard Hawkins’s two collages, both titled The Collage Killer #9, I couldn’t decide whether the young man in the middle of one of the works, haloed by streams of fake blood and cut-outs…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (978+ words) When Ian Fugett began promoting his new magazine, the pub, he quickly realized that he wasn’t alone. “I would be hanging flyers, and someone would come up to me, like, ‘Oh, you started a publication. We just started a publication,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (107+ words) Chicago Reader Lewis and Bae—who died in 2021—met at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they were both pursuing MFAs. They became friends and frequent collaborators. As this exhibition makes clear—most poignantly in the street-facing…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (71+ words) Chicago Reader Nicolas Winding Refn’s return to feature filmmaking after a decade away, two streaming shows, and literally dying due to heart surgery is gloriously and quintessentially late-period Refn. Her Private Hell is certainly not an accessible crowd-pleaser, but those…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (356+ words) Chicago Reader In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for…...