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- Music, Music Review Jan 27, 2021
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Emerging rapper the Third angles for a place in Chicago’s hip-hop pantheon with The Director’s Cut
- News & Politics, News Dec 17, 2020
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Librarians sound alarms about pandemic protocols
Do the CPL pandemic guidelines really help staff and patrons?
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 13, 2020
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Stuck inside ain't that bad
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 21, 2020
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What happened to YOUmedia?
The Chicago Public Library's flagship teen program was a refuge for Black and Brown youth. Recent layoffs put that in jeopardy.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Oct 2, 2020
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Get tested and enjoy sweater weather with confidence
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- City Life, Stay at Home May 30, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 71 and 72
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- City Life, Stay at Home Apr 11, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- City Life, Stay at Home Mar 28, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days eight and nine
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 11, 2020
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Making comedians look funny
These photographers put Chicago's thriving comedy scene into focus.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 11, 2019
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Eye 94 opens readers’ ears
Lumpen hosts the only terrestrial radio show in the midwest devoted to books and authors.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 10, 2019
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop
With his next album, he wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young man.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Sep 18, 2019
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The Ship of Tolerance docks at Navy Pier
With a mast composed of paintings created by children all over the world, this ship is a vessel aimed toward more peaceful future.
- City Life, Staycation Jul 10, 2019
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I just need a minute!
Get away from the rest of us at these secluded Chicago spots.
- Arts & Culture, Books and Comics Issue May 29, 2019
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A writer surveys the transformation of Chicago’s literary landscape
“Does anyone ever enter a bookstore just to purchase a book?”
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Aug 17, 2018
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A lawsuit to prevent the Obama Presidential Center's ‘illegal land grab’ in Jackson Park is moving forward
The activist group Protect Our Parks claims that the city’s plan to turn 19 acres of Jackson Park over to the Obama Foundation is unconstitutional.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 26, 2018
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The Chicago Public Library Maker Lab gives everyone access to some amazing toys
From curtains to medical models, this is the place to go to play with ideas in physical form.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 3, 2018
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Charles White finally gets his due with a retrospective at the Art Institute
His work was a corrective to the rampant misrepresentation of African-Americans in art and history.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Mar 16, 2018
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Meet Chicago's punk-rock librarian: Jeremy Kitchen urges you to read, nosh, and mosh
Kitchen has brought Punk Rock and Donuts to CPL and book talk to Lumpen Radio.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2017
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Blagojevich brings his appeal to the Supreme Court, and other Chicago news
Also, the Obama Presidential Center will feature a public library instead of a presidential library.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2017
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Rauner showcases new biker persona in online campaign video, and other Chicago news
Also, the city wants to issue more weekend parking tickets to generate much-needed revenue.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2017
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The premiere of The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Wicker Park Bucktown Fall Dinner Crawl, the Chicago Architecture Biennial's "Sight Six," and more happenings from September 25-28
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2017
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Banned Books Week gets entertaining
City Lit Theater's Books on the Chopping Block pop-up and other local events draw attention to the year's most challenged works.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 22, 2017
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Open University of the Left is free, liberal, and necessary
The monthly seminars have been around for a long time, but they’re perfect for the present.
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2017
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Barack and Michelle Obama reveal the design of the Obama Presidential Center, and other Chicago news
Also, FC Barcelona is opening a soccer training academy in Chicago next year.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2016
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‘Working America’ brings Studs Terkel into the 21st century
A new exhibit at the Harold Washington Library considers people's relationship to their jobs.