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

The Wisconsin Dells remains a popular midwest vacation destination, but Nellie Kluz’s 2024 documentary explores its murky ...

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

For illusionist Jeanette Andrews, magic is the medium and the interaction between performer and audience is the artwork.

A dispute between a white couple and a Latine couple takes on bigger sociopolitical implications in Theatre Evolve's ...

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

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

Committing to the 20-mile drive to Little Palestine offered the perfect amount of yap time with my mom on the phone. She loved the idea of a “broke day trip,” as we weren’t really a vacation family.

The one-room schoolhouse houses photographs, tools, and stories of immigrants and Black miners who followed coal to rural Illinois.

Horizons claims its inventory tops one million items—but how did that many records all end up in a tiny town an hour away from Rockford and even further from Peoria and Chicago? Fortuitously, in ...

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.

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