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Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture
Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture is a new exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Center honoring the late Chicago architect and style icon. Get to know…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Boxes Experience
What is Boxed Experience? An Interactive Theatrical Activation where we immerse you into a new, Transformative Adventure. In this world, you’ll have total control as…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events
Chicago Gourmet
In 2021, Chicago Gourmet is reunited, and it tastes so good! All September, join top chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists for a month of deliciousness. From…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Tight Ship Comedy! A live stand-up comedy show!
Tight Ship Comedy has been entertaining the Chicago’s South Loop area with live the best local and national live stand up comedy. Located in the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Clinic
Congo Square Theatre Company (Congo Square), one of the nation’s premier African American theatres, launches its 2021-2022 season with THE CLINIC, introducing the old-school serial…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Neon and Light Museum
The new Neon and Light Museum pop-up invites guests to stand in, under and around some seventy professional neon and light-based sculptures in a dazzling…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Tight Ship Comedy! A live stand-up comedy show!
Tight Ship Comedy has been entertaining the Chicago’s South Loop area with live the best local and national live stand up comedy. Located in the…
Tours & Attractions
Wicker Park-Bucktown Art Quest
Take part in our upcoming month–long event to celebrate the roots of Art in WPB. Art enthusiasts will go on a self-curated quest to check…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
A La Française: The French Way
This fall, join Springboard Arts for the opening of its next exhibition, “A La Française: The French Way.” Unprecedented events – like the pandemic –…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Chicago Textile Week Deep, Far, Home
Chicago Textile Week presents “Deep, Far, Home”, a group exhibition of textile and multimedia artists with ties to the city. These contemporary artists’ works explore…
Theatre & Performing Arts
International Latino Theatre Festival
After taking a year off due to the pandemic, the citywide annual DESTINOS: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival is back for its fourth outing ready to showcase…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Black Summer: Race, Resistance and Resilience
Black Summer: Race, Resistance and Resilience, inspired by James Baldwin’s No Name in the Street, showcases the work of 11 photographers of color during the…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Chicago Avant-Garde
Chicago Avant-Garde puts the spotlight on Chicago as a site of historic, boundary-pushing experimentation in art, literature, and dance. At the center of the exhibition…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Future Fossils: SUM
Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces a major new sculpture exhibition by Chicago…
Tours & Attractions
Hello Helios: The warming suns of Chicago’s Greektown
Greektown Chicago is proud to present its new outdoor art exhibit Hello Helios: The warming suns of Chicago’s Greektown, with 24 vibrant three-dimensional artworks lining…
Virtual Event
Hot Pink, or Ready to Blow
It’s Pompeii meets Heathers as New American Folk Theatre continues its “season of audio theatre” with a new studio recording of its 2018 hit comedy Hot Pink, or Ready to…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Immersive Art Space LP presents Immersive Van Gogh
Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, a new venue within Chicago’s recently renovated landmark Germania Club Building, will open Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 with the U.S. premiere of…
Virtual Event
Sense & Sensibility (Audio Drama)
Lifeline Theatre concludes its first virtual season with a six-episode audio drama adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, adapted by ensemble member Christopher Hainsworth,…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
The Art of Banksy
The world’s largest collection of privately-owned Banksy coming to Chicago. Seen by over 750,000 people worldwide, The Art of Banksy hosts prints, canvasses, screenprints, sculptures…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40
Presented in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program, this multi-site exhibition uses the idea of “the commons” to explore the current socio-political…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
African Diaspora: Chicago | An Exhibition Curated by Gallery Guichard
Gallery Guichard, the most notable and respected gallery in Bronzeville — the largest African American art district in the country — is located on the…
Tours & Attractions
Wendella’s Chicago Architecture Tour From The Riverwalk
Experience Chicago’s legendary architecture and the exceptional architects who created this ever-changing legacy for all to admire. This family-friendly introduction to the Windy City’s rich…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events
2021 Puerto Rican Festival of Chicago
THE PUERTO RICAN FESTIVAL OF CHICAGO IS AN INCLUSIVE NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE CULTURE, ART, AND VALUES OF THE PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY THROUGH…
Music & Comedy
Chicago Comedy Club – Stand-up Comedy at the House of Blues
Every Thursday, the members-only Foundation Room at the House of Blues Chicago turns into the best stand-up show in the city. Experience a one-of-a-kind comedy…
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