At Shanghai Seminary, feral impulses are visible through the revelatory voyeuristic interventions of Geof Oppenheimer.

Casa Cafe’s bookers are pursuing a city license so they can safely restart shows. Plus: DJ Paul Nixon launches the pop-up shop Happy Home Records, and more.

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish ...

A coalition of more than 55 organizations wants Cook County to freeze spending on the sheriff and state's attorney amid a ...

Three performers talk about what it takes to move your drag or burlesque act from concept to performance without losing sight ...

As Musclecars, Brooklyn DJs and producers Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield don’t make dance music to try to fit into anyone’s template of classic four-on-the-floor house—they seem more motivated by a ...

During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.

About nine years ago, Mario Luna got a call from his mother. She’d been doing some spring cleaning in her home in Pilsen—the same house where he’d grown up—and she’d found a shoebox that clearly ...

Sheriff Tom Dart is quietly lobbying the Cook County Board of Commissioners to expand surveillance both inside the Cook County jail and on the streets. Within the jail’s walls, he’s eyeing a system ...

Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around ...

Muggsy Spaniers's tremendous musical energy helped keep the Windy City’s distinctive style alive, even after it was eclipsed ...

On what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity.