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Color Jam; Photo courtesy of Chicago Loop Alliance

The Loop Is Jammin' With Color

LoopWe're used to traffic jams in the Loop. This summer they're going to be a lot more colorful. Today the Chicago Loop Alliance unveiled Color Jam, and art installation by Jessica Stockholder. Buildings...
I Am Going to Change the World

Oh to Change the World

River WestChicago Dramatists does it again.  The final offering of their 2011/2012 season is an amazing work by resident playwright Andrew Hinderaker.  The plot can be summed up as such: John Chapman has big,...
Chicago SummerDance Festival; photo credit Kymberly Janisch

Chicago SummerDance Schedule Announced

Grant Park | Museum CampusGet out your dancing shoes! The SummerDance Festival returns for another year to Chicago's Grant Park. From July 19 through September 16 you can learn how to dance with lessons and live music on...

100 Days Of Chicago: Vote for our Top 10!

ChicagoFor the last 100 days a different photo of Chicago has been featured on our home page. There are shots of neighborhoods, the skyline, our river and lake, and, of course, the "bean". They're gorgeous...
The Lovely Tyrants: Tea for Tyrants

Tea For Tyrants - and for You?

LakeviewAre you a Lovely Tyrant? Just what is a Lovely Tyrant? To be literal, at least in this sense, it is to be a folk/rock band out of Chicago made up of Phil Lomac and Andy Angelos.These benevolent...
Summer Camp Fest

Summer Camp Music Festival 2012

SuburbsThe days are getting longer, and the weather much better- Summer in Chicago is finally here! Memorial Day weekend is less than a week away, and the great traditions of camping, picnicing, and...
Photo courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art

Free Admission at Museum of Contemporary Art; NATO Museum Closings

Grant Park | Museum Campus, Magnificent Mile | Streeterville, Hyde ParkTomorrow the Museum of Contemporary Art is offering free admission in honor of "Art Museum Day". This is followed by closings Saturday through Monday.Other museums that are being closed due to the...
Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead Double Feature

Zombie Double Feature - See You at the Drive-in

West SuburbsI miss the days of drive-in movies. Yes IMax 3D is a thing of wonderment but the drive-in was a fun place to be. I'll admit I frequented them more as a kid on family outings in the late 70's early 80...

The Shams Band Clean and Press

Bucktown | Wicker ParkFor the last few weeks The Shams Band has been cleaning up - literally. Donnie Biggins and his group have donned rubber gloves and toted garbage bags around the Logan Square neighborhood for their "...
Chicago Shakespeare Theater to perform at Globe To Globe at Shakespeare's Globe

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Goes Globe-l

Congratulations to Chicago Shakespeare Theater on participating in Globe To Globe, at THE Shakespeare theater.Over the course of six weeks all 37 of The Bard's plays will be performed at Shakespeare'...

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