In its first foray into games, Transit Tees aims to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of your daily commute with “Loop: The Elevated Card Game.” In it, you’ll journey through Chicago’s downtown via the L, navigating the city’s iconic train stations while dodging the hazards of public transportation that we know all […]
The long-awaited, $75 million restoration of the 93-year-old Uptown Theatre — among the highest profile historic rehabs in the city’s history — will begin next summer, Chicago’s Community Development Commission is to be told Tuesday. Click here to read article.
City Winery (1200 W. Randolph St.) has built a solid reputation as a winemaker and host of great concerts in the West Loop over the last six years. Its food, though, has always served more as an accompaniment to the space and the music rather than a main draw. That’s hopefully about to change, as […]
Video Segment: The Wicker Park Bucktown Fall Dinner Crawl will take place Tuesday, Sept. 25th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Watch the full segment from FOX here.
An important Chicago artist is getting his first solo exhibition in nearly 70 years. Todros Geller was an immigrant artist who depicted both the old country and his new adopted home. Chicago Tonight visited on opening day of the exhibition called “Strange Worlds.” Read the full story from WTTW here.
Hiding in a Chicago neighborhood, in what looks like just another apartment building, is a new exhibition space celebrating architecture and socially engaged art. Wrightwood 659 was once a three-floor walk-up on the city’s north side but is now a four-floor space with an outdoor patio on the top floor. Read more from Smithsonian.com here.
The culminating event of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Year of Creative Youth initiative, the festival will feature hundreds of local creatives showcasing their talents (dance, fashion, theater, music, spoken word, the visual arts, among others) throughout the Millennium Park campus on Saturday. Workshops, pop-up performances, DJs, mural painting and a variety of interactive activities, including performances from the […]
For one night only, dozens of Chicago musicians and vocalists gathered at Englewood’s Lindblom Academy for a tour de force of the city’s best known musical styles. Quantum Englewood is a journey through 100 years of South Side musical history. Watch the story from ABC here.
“One of Cirque du Soleil’s world-famous crews will soon be coming to Rockford as they perform “Corteo” at BMO Harris Bank Center April 5-8. Corteo made its premier in Montreal in April 2005. Since then the production has visited more than 60 cities in 19 different countries. “It was the first Cirque du Soleil show […]