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Henry Brennan, 2, walks through the Feast of Light at the Chicago Botanic Garden's 'Lightscape' installation on Nov. 21, 2019, in Glencoe, Ill.

Chicago Botanic Garden to go ahead with outdoor holiday lights show

May 22, 2026 at 8:03 p.m.

In its inaugural showing last winter, "Lightscape," the Chicago Botanic Garden's first big holiday lights show, was a hit. The garden sold almost every available ticket to its outdoor walk...

A man sits alone at a food court seating area at Navy Pier on Aug. 13, 2020.

With few visitors, Navy Pier to close down again to save money

August 18, 2020 at 3:58 p.m.

Navy Pier will close again rather than fight for the comparatively few visitors willing to venture onto the partially reopened lakeside destination amid the coronavirus pandemic. The human-made structure jutting...

Colson Whitehead reads a passage from his novel, "The Underground Railroad," at a Chicago Humanities Festival event at The Art Institute of Chicago in November, 2017.

The fall Chicago Humanities Festival will go on — but all digital

May 22, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

Pushed out of auditoriums and its usual in-person events by the pandemic, Chicago Humanities Festival will go all digital for its big fall programming lineup this year, the organization announced...

Terry White and the Loaded Dice's members Andon Davis (cq) (left) and Terry White perform on the outdoor stage at FitzGerald's in Berwyn on Friday, August 7, 2020.

Yes, Chicago, there is some live rock music to be found these days. But can it last?

August 14, 2020 at 2:46 p.m.

"You've got to wonder about history at this moment," said the Chicago songwriter Terry White on a recent Friday night. "Here's a song called, 'Yourself in History.'" And with that,...

"Sue, In The Flesh" a newly created full-sized, fleshed-out model of the Field Museum's Sue specimen is the latest addition at the Field Museum in Chicago on Thursday, July 30, 2020.

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Fleshed-out version of T. rex Sue on display at Field Museum

May 22, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

Here's something you maybe didn't expect. Amid the pandemic and its cautious reopening last week, the Field Museum has installed a new dinosaur in its cavernous central hall. If it...

The 1982 painting "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump" by Jean-Michel Basquiat is seen at the Art Institute of Chicago on July 24, 2020.

Art Institute reopens — and returning visitors finally get an art fix

August 3, 2020 at 9:41 a.m.

Early visitors, as the Art Institute let the public back in for the first time since mid-March, didn't go to "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," typically the museum's most...

Signage welcoming people back and also to keep social distance at Navy Pier in Chicago on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Navy Pier began a cautious reopening after being closed for almost three months because of COVID-19.

Navy Pier lays off employees amid COVID-19 slowdown

May 22, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

When Navy Pier reopened to the public June 10, it was early to do so among Chicago attractions, but it was also in a limited fashion. Parking in the pier...

Curator Hendrik Folkerts talks about "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump," the 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday, July 24, 2020.

Now hanging at the Art Institute: Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin’s new, $100 million Basquiat canvas

May 22, 2026 at 8:02 p.m.

When it came out during the pandemic that Chicago billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin had purchased the massive, much admired Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas "Boy and Dog in Johnnnypump" for more than...

Chicago History Museum's new exhibition "Millions of Moments" the museum's archive of over 5 million old Sun-Times photos, including a 1956 photo the Sun-Times photography staff, Wednesday July 22, 2020.

From Elvis to MJ, new Chicago History Museum exhibit showcases 20th-century Chicago newspaper photography

July 23, 2020 at 3:58 p.m.

Without a shirt or any visible safety strap, the construction worker lounges hundreds of feet above Chicago, like it's the most natural thing in the world to be up there....

A combination photo of a pedestrian walks by Symphony Hall, Art Institute lion and Sue the T. Rex skeleton at the Field Museum.

As the Art Institute, CSO, others work to find a way through the financial struggle, their locked away piggy banks remain mostly off limits

July 23, 2020 at 3:23 p.m.

As cultural organizations across the city have laid off workers and otherwise tightened their belts in anticipation of dismal revenues at least through 2020 and likely beyond, a question keeps...

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