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Rendering of what will be the Darger Gallery in the Intuit Art Museum at 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago, set to reopen to the public April 25, 2025. (Provided by IAM)

An outsider no more, Intuit Art Museum opens this spring after $10 million makeover

January 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The art museum devoted to work by self-taught artists has nearly completed a renovation and expansion that gives it four gallery spaces in its building on Milwaukee Avenue.

A display in the exhibition "Cats: Predators to Pets" at the Field Museum in Chicago. (Morgan Clark)

Museums for winter 2025: Our top picks around Chicago for the chilly months

January 14, 2025 at 2:52 p.m.

Winter is the very best time to get lost in a museum. Whittling away an entire afternoon without having to step outside once? Sign us up.

Ted Sofios, left to right, Michael Ressler, Jonathan Salem Baskin, Andrew Hollander-Urbach and Todd Rowan of Mortal Fools, a local band that performs rock versions of literary works by Shakespeare and Milton, on Jan. 5, 2025, at Fort Knox Studios before a show adapting Homer's Odyssey. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

This rock band’s lyricist? Homer.

January 10, 2025 at 8:05 a.m.

The bandmates of Mortal Fools specialize in taking texts from classic literature and bending them into prog rock. Yes, they have a sense of humor about what they're doing. Next...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus at Symphony Center on June 2, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Classical, jazz and experimental music for winter 2025: From Ensemble Dal Niente to a new chamber series

January 14, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

Why narrow our picks to 10 when we can include dozens of concerts through the end of March? Read on.

Then-guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion on July 10, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Grant Park Music Festival announces summer 2025 lineup, the first under new music director Giancarlo Guerrero

January 7, 2025 at 9:39 a.m.

This summer, the free music festival runs June 11 to Aug. 16, with the usual Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evening programs.

Members of the U.S. gymnastics team, Paul Juda, center-front, Frederick Richard and Brody Malone celebrate as teammate Stephen Nedoroscik completes the final apparatus, pommel horse, to secure their bronze medal in the men's team final on July 29, 2024, at Bercy Arena during the Paris Olympics. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

From Blago to a Jeremy Allen White doppelgänger, what newsworthy and notable Chicagoans listened to in 2024

December 31, 2024 at 10:32 a.m.

In the spirit of Spotify Wrapped, here's the music that a number of Chicagoans, and honorary Chicagoans, listened to in 2024.

Isaiah Collier on Dec. 4, 2024, at the DuSable Black History Museum in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz: Saxophonist Isaiah Collier has found his shape

December 19, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

His project “The Story of 400 Years" is one of several signs that the 26-year-old Collier is shrugging off the wunderkind label the jazz world has imprinted on him, once...

Curator Ross Jordan, from left, associate director Matthew Randle-Bent and director Liesl Olson on Dec. 9, 2024, at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicagoans of the Year in Museums: Liesl Olson, Ross Jordan and Matthew Randle-Bent of Jane Addams Hull-House

December 19, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

The team behind the Hull-House Museum is looking to replicate the civically engaged work of Hull-House in some way.

Composer Shawn Okpebholo on Dec. 12, 2024, at Wheaton College's Conservatory of Music. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music: Composer Shawn Okpebholo’s music always means something

December 18, 2024 at 2:15 p.m.

Shawn Okpebholo’s music sings of Chicago, from its waterways to its architecture to its ugly history.

New Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Klaus Mäkelä conducts the CSO at Symphony Center on April 4, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

2024’s best of the best of the best in classical, jazz and more

December 25, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

Shows that made us feel weightless, soothed, exhilarated, connected, whole this year.

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