"Steelmakers" is an accessible entry point to the environmental, industrial, immigrant, and labor histories of the Calumet region.

Cocojoey plays a homecoming show to support the wild new Stars, Roy Kinsey inaugurates the Rapbrary’s physical home, and more ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as pleasure.

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.

With three days of nonstop entertainment, including two stages of live music, West Fest is one of this summer’s most highly ...

Among the new class of shoegaze artists powering the continuing resurgence of the genre, many cite Whirr as a foundational ...

Vinyl has long been the big story in physical media, but CDs are cheaper, quicker to manufacture, and poised for a comeback.

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

In the studio and onstage, Byron Gregory backed giants of soul, jazz, funk, and more—including Ramsey Lewis, Ruby Andrews, ...

CHIRP mourns a pillar of its volunteer community, the Chosen Few Picnic turns 35, Ganser kick off Kilbourn Park’s summer ...

Bodock's “dark if by day” draws viewers into a ceremony of wayfinding, collapsing past and present in an otherworldly apparition.

Tom Henry belongs to the ever-expanding constellation of young indie rockers with a deep affection for the underground sounds ...