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Bartlett, IL · Arts & Culture
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Shakey Graves at The Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL
Shakey Graves makes a welcome return to Chicago for a midweek show at the city’s Vic Theatre in support of his latest release. Chicago fans last had the opportunity to see Shakey Graves perform in July 2025 when he headlined what turned out to be the last-ever Out Of Space Festival, so they haven’t had too long to wait for his return to the area. Since then, he has released a new album, Fondness, Etc., which came out back in May, and this current tour is in support of.
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Design Top 5: November 2026
(Cleve Carney Museum of Art) Chicago’s alternative comics scene comes into focus through the artists and community surrounding Ivan Brunetti’s influential “Linework.”. The first-ever design triennial brings together twenty-six designers and collectives exploring technology, ecology, care and community. Through February 14, 2027. 3. Temporary Permanence: The Urbanization...
Riverside Brookfield Landmark
Riverside Arts Weekend is in jeopardy
Riverside Arts Weekend has been bringing art vendors to the village’s downtown for a weekend of excitement since 2008, but if the community doesn’t step up soon, organizers say the beloved institution might not make it to its 20th year. While 2026 saw a successful Riverside Arts Weekend...
Daily Northwestern
Jazzing up Evanston: Local Note brings live music, signature cocktails to downtown
A saxophone filled a small room in Local Note, Evanston’s new jazz club, Thursday as performers amped up. The guitar and bass hit a delicate balance, taking turns in the spotlight as the melody formed. Lead singer Gordon Wright took to the microphone to guide the quintet, his voice...
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Artist’s Thayer Street Day of the Dead installation celebrates lives, legacies of lost loved ones
Evanston artist Teresa Parod has transformed her front yard at 2319 Thayer St.— and part of her neighbor’s— into a large Day of the Dead installation, with a tented altar, a glowing orange crescent moon and illuminated skulls celebrating the traditional Mexican holiday. Day of the Dead,...
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The rise and fall of the Genesis Convention Center in Gary, IN, and what comes after it on its downtown block
By July 1982, the Genesis Convention Center was open in downtown Gary, Indiana. The city's symphony played there that month, and seniors walked in for free. Before the year was out, Prince had played the arena. Over the next decades the building held Chicago Bulls exhibitions, two Miss USA pageants,...
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100 Years of Connection: What the Aragon Ballroom Tells Us About the Power of Live Experiences
The Aragon Ballroom first opened its doors in 1926 and, a century later, the iconic Chicago venue continues to bring people together through music and the timeless power of shared in-person experiences. The venue celebrates its 100-year anniversary this year, with a rich past including time spent as a roller-skating...
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Secret Chicago
Chicago’s $25 true-crime museum hides the world’s largest John Wayne Gacy archive behind a Milwaukee Avenue horror shop
A horror-film shop on Milwaukee Avenue offers more than movies to take home. At 1829 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Bucktown, Graveface Chicago / Terror Vision Video shares its address with the Graveface Museum, a ticketed collection exploring true crime, sideshow history, the occult, and other unconventional subjects. The Chicago museum opened in 2022 as a second location following its Savannah flagship. Inside, visitors can explore displays covering everything from historical sideshows and taxidermy to the history of mental healthcare and women in deathcare. One central exhibit focuses on John Wayne Gacy, with paintings, photographs, letters, and prison records displayed in a room arranged to resemble his death-row cell. According to the museum, Graveface holds the largest collection and archive of Gacy artwork and personal effects , with portions displayed at both its Chicago and Savannah locations. Other exhibits explore Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, sideshow history, and David Huggins’ alien-encounter artwork. The museum’s subject matter is mature, encompassing death, murder, and mental illness; its visitor guidance encourages parents to consider whether the content is appropriate for their children. Horror films and vinyl at Terror Vision Video The retail side of the space caters to fans of physical media,
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‘Earl Adamant Allen’ Calls for Lasting Community Change on New Single “Lead the Way”
For Earl Adamant Allen, the issues addressed in his music are not abstract. As a crisis worker serving Chicago’s South Side, he encounters the pressures facing individuals and families firsthand. On his new single, “Lead the Way,” the rapper draws on those experiences to call for sustained investment in the next generation.
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Local Filmmaker Creating New ‘Movies The Store’ Concept in Evanston
A movie enthusiast has big plans for the former MBG Products space. It is being reported a new retail concept called Movies The Store is coming to downtown Evanston at 1043 Chicago Avenue. This will be a “boutique physical media store” for the Main Dempster-Mile business district. Owner Stirling McLaughlin told What Now Chicago he is hoping to open the store sometime next month as he recently received the keys.
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August Wilson’s Antihero Is a King Without a Country
All the great playwrights, from the Greeks on down, strive for balance in a precarious, off-kilter world. And that’s mostly true of August Wilson, whose majestic ten-play “Century Cycle” attempts nothing less than to capture the history and destiny of Black America. In Wilson’s world, the cosmic forces of creation and destruction, freedom and oppression, hope and despair—often taking supernatural form—pair off against each other in a state of dialectical tension, generating progress. His characters strive mightily to liberate themselves from the bonds of the past, while drawing strength from the struggles of their ancestors.
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Oregon Wins Men’s Golfer of the Week Award
ROSEMONT, Ill. – Oregon’s Sebastian Desoisa has been named the Big Ten Golfer of the Week for tournaments from Oct. 23-29. Golfer of the Week. So. – Gibraltar, United Kingdom – Prior Park School Gilbraltar. Finished third at The Preserve Golf Club Collegiate, carding an eight-under...
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Chicago schedules three Mississippi concerts in March 2027
Chicago will perform three Mississippi concerts in March 2027 — two at the Beau Rivage Theater in Biloxi on March 27 and 28, and one at the Bologna Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, SuperTalk Mississippi reported. “2027 marks the 60th consecutive year Chicago has toured, never missing a year!...
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This Old-Time Illinois Bowling Alley Still Sets Pins the Old-Fashioned Way
Bowling feels refreshingly stuck in another era at Fireside Bowl in Chicago’s Logan Square. This Fullerton Avenue institution has been sending balls down its 16 lanes since the 1940s, preserving a wonderfully retro atmosphere without the oversized screens and high-tech distractions of modern bowling centers. Vintage scoring equipment and...
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Frank Lloyd Wright built a $45,000 jewel box in Oak Park, and it has no windows
You walk up to a gray concrete block on a busy street in Oak Park, Illinois, and nothing about it says you should go inside. No windows face the sidewalk. No sign points to a door. Frank Lloyd Wright built this church in 1908 on a budget of just $45,000, and he called it his little jewel box. From the outside, you’d never guess why.