Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has ...

In 1988, Reader staff writer Harold Henderson wrote a memorable 7,300-word cover story on tiny, financially strapped Shimer College. It was a happy thing just to know that a place as unlikely as ...

MUBI FEST returns to Chicago July 10–12 with a weekend of exclusive screenings, live music, and special events across The Salt Shed, Music Box Theatre, and Gene Siskel Film Center. Highlights include ...

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

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

If “all” you do is stroll to the Skokie River Nature Preserve and meander 3.6 miles of trails through prairie, woodlands, sedge meadows, and savanna, Metra fare (or gas—parking is available at all ...

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

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.

Sure, we’ve missed Lair of the Minotaur’s heavy, gritty riffs, expansive tunes, and mythological themes, but we’re just flesh ...

IDHS grants that are supported by the Illinois Lottery’s specialty ticket have helped Fifth Street Renaissance to continue providing critical resources to some of the state’s most vulnerable and ...