Today in Chicago culture: Monday, July 7, 2025.FILM & TELEVISION “The Bear” Renewed For Fifth Season Further montages of familiar Chicago imagery and sensations of kitchen PTSD will return, relays ...

“The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced William Silverstein as the new chair of the board of trustees,” reports Crain’s. “In a statement, the museum said Silverstein, who has been a trustee ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s 1572 “Fata Morgana,” “one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a U.S. museum,” reports The Art Newspaper. The museum ...

The Newtons were extreme collectors. During the early 1980s, I visited their four-story, eighteen-room house in Aurora filled with antiques. A secret bookshelf door in the basement opened to a ...

Ted Ishiwari discusses a lifelong grappling with racism along with his father's ordeal of being uprooted and sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

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 ...

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Ox-Bow Buys Historic Building Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency has ...

The true Romani playing in Chicago include: Tony Bellog: A regular performer with Alphonso Ponticelli’s Swing Gitan at the Green Mill on Wednesday nights, Bellog is from a legendary family of gypsy ...

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

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,” ...

While I ride CTA trains a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red and Blue routes from ...