Chicago, you’ve been programmed: Meet Julius Mondragon, TikTok’s Computer Guy
The Computer Guy wears Ray-Ban Meta glasses with a camera, through which he records his interactions programming strangers, later posting brief videos on TikTok.
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Black History Month is 100. Can its Bronzeville birthplace outlast the age of Trump?
The landmark building was rescued from demolition and badly needs restoration. It's not a relic, its owners say, it's real, living history you can touch.
Art Institute acquires Norman Rockwell’s ‘The Dugout,’ his famous painting of the Cubs
A gift from former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife, the famous Saturday Evening Post cover is the museum's first Rockwell painting.
Super Bowl commercials 2026: The good, the bad and the good-stupid
The celebrities were everywhere. So was AI. From Hellmann's mayonnaise to Kendall Jenner, the best and worst of the 2026 Super Bowl TV ads.
Review: Most Super Bowl halftimes are bonkers. Bad Bunny’s was close to art.
Since 1967, most halftime shows have been nuts. His show was a swirling spectacle centered on a single voice, and no one needed to be able to speak Spanish to...
A Rogers Park house was an HGTV ‘Ugliest House in America’ finalist — some say it’s always been anything but.
Long a neighborhood landmark, the Victorian home was an art project for its previous owners. Its new owners promised to keep it much as it was. Then HGTV came calling.
Northwestern’s Daisy Hernández and her new history of the (quickly) changing meaning of citizenship
Daisy Hernández's new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.
Don’t fear the reaper. Unless you’re on this list.
Ghoulish Mortals in St. Charles runs an annual death pool to predict the celebrities who won't live to see out the year. The guesses are in for 2026.
What’s like got to do with it? Evanston’s Sara Levine on the art of ‘difficult’ women.
Her 2012 novel “Treasure Island!!!" remains a cult classic. Her new book, "The Hitch," arrives some 15 years later, with some important elements in common.
The Year Past, the Year to Come: Bowie, delivery ‘bots and Broadview
Culturally, where do we begin 2026 in Chicago? Where we ended 2025, of course. From vacant lots to crowds of 'bots, there are places where you can feel the Earth...