Feb 28, 2025 · Arts and culture of Chicago & the Great Lakes, monthly in print and daily online. Since 1986.

3 days ago · Today in Chicago culture: Thursday, March 6, 2025. Christian Holder “brought his elegance and power to boundary-pushing ballets in the 1960s and seventies, and he was a presence at the storied company for thirteen years,” chronicles the New York Times. David Schwimmer Urges Stand Against Antisemitism

6 days ago · The Birth Of Afro Sheen In Chicago. George E. Johnson’s “products and ads, chronicled in the ninety-seven-year-old entrepreneur’s new book ‘Afro Sheen,’ helped empower Black people in an era when they were denied opportunities based on their hair styles,” reports Block Club.. “Because of hair care industrialists like Johnson, Chicago became a city that influenced the world of ...

4 days ago · Court Theatre’s seventy-first season will feature Theodore Ward’s “Big White Fog,” directed by resident artist Ron OJ Parson; Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” directed by Marti Lyons; Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” directed by senior artistic producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent; and “Out Here,” a world-premiere musical, with concept by Leslie Buxbaum, David J. Levin and ...

4 days ago · As the rise of television lifted sports higher into the American consciousness in the 1960s, Cadaco games soared in popularity too, with baseball, football and basketball tabletop games that were easy to play—most notably for the majority of youngsters who had difficulties playing real baseball, football and basketball. Cadaco (an acronym for founders Charles Berlsheimer and Don Mazer ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Lou Raizin's big idea is to create cultural projects in and around the Loop. Many of them. As sports teams ask for subsidies to build singular behemoths, he envisions downtown Chicago as a Cultural Stadium, where smaller, arts-led moments create wonder and surprise around every corner.

Feb 12, 2025 · Downtown Chicago’s two most iconic shopping streets are flagging, struggling to reinvent themselves in the wake of the pandemic and the rise of ecommerce. While Team Culture envisions downtown as a vast Cultural Stadium, State Street and Michigan Avenue merit special attention: They are the central corridors of the city, places …

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Apr 2, 2024 · Related Stories. Editor's Letter: April 2023 This is the twentieth time we've published a Breakout Artist edition and we'll have the companion public exhibition of Breakout Artists, which this year opens April 12 at the Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) space.; Editor's Letter: April 2022 The convergence of three passions—art, film and Brazil—that first week in April is …

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