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‘Brewing Up Chicago’: Field Museum raises a glass with Chicago beer history exhibit

May 22, 2026 at 8:15 p.m.

There are surely very few people who believe Chicago brewing started with Revolution, or even with Goose Island. But it’s one thing to know about the city’s history of suds-friendly...

‘Pope.L: The Escape’ reworks a slavery play as performance art and dares you to wonder what to think about it

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His “experimental restaging” of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American play moves the...

Fantasy Forest, part of Illumination: Tree Lights at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018.

Holiday lights guide: 5 tips for seeing the displays at the Arboretum and Lincoln Park and Brookfield Zoos

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

At Morton Arboretum, home of the first big holiday lights display to hit the “on” switch this year, the lights on the water will react to the wind, the lights...

Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, whose bones were found in South Dakota in 1990, has stood in the central Stanley Field Hall at the Field Museum since 2000. Dismantling of the fossil for a move upstairs in the museum began Feb. 5, 2018.

Sue’s new digs at Field Museum will open Dec. 21

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

Sue the T. rex now has a date for its housewarming party. The Field Museum’s prime T. rex skeleton, visible only through a small viewing window for much of the...

Largest Frida Kahlo show in area since 1978 coming to DuPage

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

The largest exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s art in the Chicago area since 1978 will be coming to the College of DuPage in the summer of 2020, the institution said Friday....

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" during the Nov. 1 show.

Live again on an election night, Stephen Colbert finds happier results for Team Not Trump

December 11, 2018 at 8:34 p.m.

The last time Stephen Colbert tried a live election night show, it had stark repercussions for the nation. As Colbert watched with increasing horror, decreasing wit and a glass of...

Artist Kerry James Marshall at the 2017 unveiling of his new mural on the west wall of the Chicago Cultural Center, honoring Chicago's female cultural forces .

Kerry James Marshall says he is done making public art work

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

One of Kerry James Marshall’s first reactions to news that Chicago intended to sell a public library mural he painted was to swear off making any more public art. “It...

‘The Walking Dead’: Rick lurches off into the sunset, or was that an explosion?

December 11, 2018 at 7:49 p.m.

Rick Grimes was a man of steel, almost literally, in his very own season and series finale of “The Walking Dead” Sunday. Rick was the series first and always lead...

A detail of Kerry James Marshall's "Knowledge and Wonder," painted for the Legler Branch public library.

Chicago reverses course on planned auction of Kerry James Marshall painting

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

In the face of withering criticism from public art advocates and the artist himself, the city of Chicago won’t be selling its multimillion-dollar Kerry James Marshall painting after all. Mayor...

A Crescent Chainless bicycle from 1899 is on display in the "Keep Moving: Designing Chicago's Bicycle Culture" exhibit Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, at Expo 72 in Chicago.

From banana-seat Schwinns to Divvys, new exhibit puts Chicago’s bicycle culture on display

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

You can’t drive a car in Chicago these days without almost running into a human on a bicycle, and that is sometimes a tragedy, sometimes an annoyance, always a sign...

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