Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has ...

In 1988, Reader staff writer Harold Henderson wrote a memorable 7,300-word cover story on tiny, financially strapped Shimer College. It was a happy thing just to know that a place as unlikely as ...

MUBI FEST returns to Chicago July 10–12 with a weekend of exclusive screenings, live music, and special events across The Salt Shed, Music Box Theatre, and Gene Siskel Film Center. Highlights include ...

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

A three-day race brought together over a hundred couriers who raced, partied, and crashed their way through a revived ...

The first round of voting for Chicago’s next mayor will occur as part of the city’s next Consolidated Municipal Election on Tuesday, February 23, 2027. The ballot will also include elections for all ...

If “all” you do is stroll to the Skokie River Nature Preserve and meander 3.6 miles of trails through prairie, woodlands, sedge meadows, and savanna, Metra fare (or gas—parking is available at all ...

Chicagoland's last surviving drive-in theater has $15 carload nights, a historic seven-story screen, and the kind of summer night you won’t forget.

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

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

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