New campaign highlights displaced Chicagoans, their art
Laura Sofia Cardozo was supposed to be celebrating her 30th birthday. Earlier in June, she was visiting family in Manhattan and talking with a friend who was in the process...
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A new photo exhibit brings #metoo to gallery walls in Evanston
In a narrow, one-room space in downtown Evanston, seven photographers share powerful, colorful, intimate stories of sexual harassment. This month, the Perspective Group and Photography Gallery presents “#metoo: a photographic...
Cause of death determined for Chicago rapper Fredo Santana
The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled cardiovascular disease to be the cause of death of Chicago rapper Fredo Santana, according to an autopsy report from the medical examiner’s office...
Free screening of ‘Eighth Grade’ in Chicago Wednesday, and teens will be allowed
If you haven’t seen director Bo Burnham’s critically acclaimed film “Eighth Grade” yet, now’s your chance. A24, the company that produced “Eighth Grade,” has announced that it will host 50...
Lollapalooza headliner ODESZA is at the beginning of a long festival road
ODESZA is tired. Understandably so — the DJ duo, comprised of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, have played (and attended, as festivalgoers) almost every major music festival this season with...
How Chicago’s female bartenders are fighting the ‘white, bearded man’ stereotype
Until the end of a decades-long legal battle in the 1970s, bartending was mostly a man’s world in Chicago. More than 40 years later, female bartenders are in Chicago’s hotels,...
Lollapalooza 2018: The Weeknd vs. Vampire Weekend and things we loved on day 3
Hot temperatures greeted festivalgoers on the third day of Lollapalooza, in which Vampire Weekend and The Weeknd headline. Here's the scene so far: Arena-ready?: Local rapper Femdot and a company...
Lollapalooza 2018: Bruno Mars entertained us (along with a few other things) on day 2
Sunny skies welcomed the second day of Lollapalooza. Here’s the scene so far: A little Powerpuff Girls, a little punk: Dream Wife (great name, after the movie) had an early...
Broke in the city: How college students in Chicago afford summertime fun, like Lolla
As crowds of young festivalgoers enjoy the thumping beats of Lollapalooza this weekend, 20-year-old Columbia College student Hailey Reeves will have to settle for hearing the music as she bustles...
Community organizers launch de-escalation workshop to help Chicagoans during mental health crises
Latham Zearfoss wasn’t expecting anything to come of his angry Facebook posts. It was the end of 2014, a few months after the shooting of Laquan McDonald, a young, African-American...