Alabama indie label Earth Libraries hosts a Chicago benefit and showcase, the grassroots campaign to dump Spotify goes national, and more.

The incentives in music journalism say it makes economic sense to cover popular artists. But loving music isn’t about making ...

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, ...

feds launched multiple gas canisters as they made their exit from elgin, leaving community members scrambling and choking. unclear if they abducted their target. this is the first time feds have ...

At iO, the Orbit, an "artful, immersive show," experiments with long-form improv in the round that puts vulnerability first.

A newbie to The Nutcracker considers the Joffrey's Chicago-centric production on its tenth anniversary outing.

In “Language of Abstraction” at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Larry Lee puts work by Ruyell Ho and Li Lin Lee in ...

Even through the winter, Chicago BIPOC Birders fosters community through opportunities for bird-watching and connecting to nature.

TUTA returns for the holidays with a moving and thoughtful production of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner.

Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, produced by Elsinore, finds the painter railing against critics to a Nazi cultural attaché in Paris.

Phil Timberlake returns to Lifeline to tell the Dickens tale from a different perspective in Tom Mula's Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol.

Young People's Theatre of Chicago's production of A Year With Frog and Toad is a delightful holiday outing for families.