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Husband and wife Matt Pudnos and Susan Field, who drove to Quincy on March 27, 2021, to get their COVID-19 vaccines, stand together on March 30 in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.

Destination: Vaccination. Amid confusion, Chicagoans traveling to downstate Quincy, elsewhere to get early inoculation access

April 2, 2021 at 11:52 a.m.

The last time this riverfront city saw a major surprise influx of visitors, it was because of a big riverboat and a swollen Mississippi. "The river was too high, and...

Elizabeth Wigfield, painting conservator, from left, and Kirk Vuillemot, frame conservator, with curator Elizabeth Whiting, carry Claude Monet's "Pommiers en fleurs" (Apple Trees in Blossom) to its frame in the Union League Club of Chicago. The priceless landscape, completed in 1872 when Monet was 32, was purchased by the club in 1895.

Union League Club does not have to sell prized Monet to Australian firm: judge

May 22, 2026 at 7:59 p.m.

The Union League Club will not have to sell its prized Claude Monet painting to an Australian art dealer for $7.2 million after a Cook County judge this week ruled...

The front of the Field Museum on Jan. 21, 2021 in Chicago.

What Pritzker’s ‘bridge’ plan means for movies, theater, concerts and more

March 18, 2021 at 8:33 p.m.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a plan for new, relaxed COVID capacity restrictions for indoor movie theaters, performance venues and museums Thursday, in what Music Box Theatre general manager Ryan...

An entry to a nearly mile-long railroad tunnel that must be navigated to ride the Elroy-Sparta State Trail bike path.

Beer, bikes and brats on a weekend of moseying through Wisconsin’s hilly Driftless Area

March 11, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

The first thing to know about Wisconsin's Driftless Area is it has an absolutely evocative name. The term sounds so much like vacation — meandering, relaxed, a region unto itself...

Sept. 11, 2020: Students from School District 25 complete their e-learning in the multipurpose room in South Middle School in Arlington Heights. The students are enrolled in a Park District program called Children at Play Plus. The program is an all-day child care program housed at the school where they are cared for and supervised by Park District staff.

What we lost: A year of sacrifice in the arts forces us to look inward

March 11, 2021 at 1:05 p.m.

The catalog of loss from 2020, even limiting the category to the arts, is a fat one. A year ago this weekend, Chicago and the nation began rolling up the...

(Left to right) Al Ehich, Bill Brickey, Lloyd King, Deborah Lader and composer Michael Miles rehearse an upcoming show about protest in America at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Lincoln Square. Sunday, April 14, 2019. (Kristan Lieb/For the baiduhai)

Old Town School union spotlights demand for seats on organization’s board, backed by the likes of Jeff Tweedy

March 10, 2021 at 1:29 p.m.

The teachers union at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music wants seats on the organization's board, and they want the city to know that their demand has the backing...

Live music coming to Chicago: GMan Tavern sets live music shows in celebration of late Waco Brothers drummer Joe Camarillo

March 5, 2021 at 10:39 a.m.

The Waco Brothers will play their first live shows of the year and the GMan Tavern will hold its first concerts in a year in a series of small shows...

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