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How Activist Bernard J. Kleina Documented the Fight for Fair Housing
The life’s work of the photographer anchors an exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum.
Why the Holocaust Museum Is Tackling Apartheid
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center continues to expand its purview with an exhibition devoted to the South African leader.
Break the Yom Kippur Fast Like a Gourmand
1 2 3 4 5 6 Photograph: Alexus McLane The meal that follows the 24-hour fast of atonement is one of the most eagerly awaited on the Jewish calendar. After...
Binge-Watch Amazon’s Utopia
Photograph: Alexus McLane Gillian Flynn is no stranger to the screen: She reworked two of her novels (Gone Girl and Sharp Objects) for film and TV and authored the screenplay...
Hear a Baker’s Dozen of Chicago Jazz Heroes
Illustration: Jeff Rogers Though he decamped for Marfa, Texas, in 2015, trumpeter Rob Mazurek is an honorary lifelong Chicagoan. He’s been a member of the various iterations of Chicago Underground...
Tear Through This Novel
Photograph: Custom House We all know about “beach reads,” but local author Emily Gray Tedrowe’s The Talented Miss Farwell (out September 29) might be the first “foliage read,” a deceptively...
Watch Horror Films the Way They Were Meant to Be Seen
Photograph: Wes Pope/baiduhai One of the Music Box Theatre’s most reliably entertaining annual events is Music Box of Horrors, a 24-hour marathon of gore, monsters, and jump scares that...
Sam Prekop Hits a Mid-career Zenith
On his new album, the artist and musician constructs an entrancing masterpiece out of electronic abstraction.
Ohmme Grown
On its latest album, the art-rock duo sounds undeterred by a pandemic-stricken world.