“To drive through Detroit is to move through a landscape shaped by both its storied industrial legacy and its long-standing creative community, where generations of artists have turned the city’s ...

Monumental works from artist Tyree Guyton’s Detroit-based Heidelberg Project will be showcased outside of their original setting at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, alongside ...

Alternating Currents and Quad City Arts have selected artists from ninety-two submissions for the AC Mural Fest, taking place across five locations in downtown Davenport, Bettendorf and Rock Island.

Today in Chicago culture: Tuesday, August 5, 2025.DINING & DRINKING Bocadillo Market Comes To West Town Bocadillo Market “brings unique sandwiches and more to West Town” pictures Eater Chicago.

Today in Chicago culture: Monday, August 4, 2025.Ear Taxi Music Festival Returns Ear Taxi Festival, the Midwest’s largest celebration of new and experimental music, returns this fall for the first ...

The Greensfelder Design Studio is a childlike page in the story of our city. His studio is filled with 175 vintage and replica paper models of fairgrounds, gas stations, boats, trucks, castles, a ...

They’ve been a great option for getting around—it’s like having spare bikes around the city. But I’m worried about Divvy’s future.

Chicago’s Peace Garden is not a particularly peaceful place. Located in Uptown next to Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Buena Avenue underpass, its tranquility is undermined by the constant roar of ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol's Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

By John Greenfield As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument ...

An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.