Shootings decreased overall last year, but the opposite was true in 17 neighborhoods. Most aren't included in Chicago's community safety plan.

Folly Group’s “Paying the Price” is one of the best electronica-infused postpunk songs about shame, and it’s only a B side.

When the Reader checked in with local noisemaking polymath Seb Alvarez in 2022, he’d turned his creative focus away from his ...

Playing at Constellation, Marisa Anderson and Jim White's collaboration is a mix of abstract exploration and gentle folk ...

A longtime fringe favorite gets a festival of her two-character plays in Hamburgers & Disappointment with Sweetback ...

Giggs’s self-released debut full-length, Walk in da Park, is a landmark album in UK hip-hop history, and almost 16 years ...

Since entering SAIC’s MFA sculpture program, Galen Odell-Smedley has produced a body of work conceptually astute and ...

Eiko Ishibashi brings her taut and richly layered music to Logan Center for the Arts for her most recent Hamaguchi ...

They draw us in without having to overplay the tics and tropes written into this early Simon comedy.

“The Lute is Eternal” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s recent single, “The Call ...

It has been more than ten years since the last of the Cabrini-Green high-rises—housing complexes that were built in 1942 to ...

Eddie Izzard's solo performance of Hamlet at Chicago Shakespeare provides a clear and resonant take on the story.