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- City Life, Public Service Announcement Apr 16, 2021
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Reset your mind with cherry blossoms
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Feb 17, 2021
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The Obama Center: opening in 2025
But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 30, 2020
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The Chosen Few Picnic & Festival comes to everybody’s backyards
For its 30th anniversary, one of the world’s largest house-music parties has been pushed online by the pandemic—but it might reach even more people that way.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Feb 26, 2020
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Chicago’s seven “most endangered” buildings
Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 9, 2019
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Photos: The grill masters of the Chosen Few Picnic
More music festivals should let fans cook for each other.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 27, 2019
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The Chosen Few Picnic is the homegrown festival every Chicagoan should attend
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jun 11, 2019
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A judge has dismissed the lawsuit that sought to stop the Obama Presidential Center
The activist group Protect Our Parks has been fighting to keep the center out of Jackson Park.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Nov 13, 2018
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After a Halloween vote by the City Council, it looks like the Obama Presidential Center is finally a done deal
Among the voters: Freddy Krueger, a bunny, a shark, and Prince.
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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Now's the time to visit Jackson Park while you still can
See Frederick Law Olmsted's stunning grounds before the Obama Center further encroaches.
- 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, Theater Review Jun 14, 2018
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There's no devil in Burnham's Dream: The White City, only music
Ragtime! Waltzes! World's Fair architecture!
- Music, Music Feature May 30, 2018
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Does Chicago have too many music festivals?
Lollapalooza’s ticket sales have slowed, and Reggae Fest and Chicago Open Air are canceled—are these the growth pangs of a healthy but crowded ecosystem, or is a crash on the way?
- Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2018
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Chicago's next great park? Hardly
The city is missing a huge opportunity to turn Rezkoville, 62 acres of barren land along the river in the South Loop, into a park or prairie preserve.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 9, 2018
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‘East-coasters butt out’ and more from the wildcat Obama Presidential Center debate
An emotionally charged symposium at the University of Chicago this week brought out many opinions but few solutions.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2018
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Jackson Park and Thompson Center lead Preservation Chicago's annual list of the city's seven most-endangered architectural treasures
Jackson Park is the designated site of the Obama Presidential Library.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2018
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Activists clash with aldermen over community benefits at Obama Presidential Center hearing, and other Chicago news
Also, city clerk Anna Valencia discusses her struggle to be taken seriously as a woman in politics.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2018
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Bruce Rauner wants Quincy veterans' home to remain open after one-week stay, and other Chicago news
Also, how local "Dreamers" are planning ahead while Congress decides their fate.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2018
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Google adds Chicago to short list for new office that would add thousands of jobs, and other news
Also, New York native David Axelrod reminds the mayor that he's not from Chicago either.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2017
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Investigation: Emanuel's Chicago Infrastructure Trust has cost taxpayers $5 million but has contributed little, and other news
Also, local and national progressive Democrats target Congressman Dan Lipinski.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Oct 24, 2017
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The Obama Foundation’s surprising challenge: Community organizers
The Presidential Center’s latest plans have kicked off a surge of serious protest.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2017
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A new dance company celebrates the ‘positive and peaceful places of the south side’
German dancer-choreographer Nejla Yatkin and the new South Chicago Dance Theatre put Jackson Park's Garden of the Phoenix at the center of an immersive work.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 24, 2017
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Development threatens one of the south side’s only dog-friendly areas
Jackson Bark is a community-built canine agility park on abandoned tennis courts. And now a multimillion-dollar golf course development plan is imperiling its future.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 19, 2017
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What we know about the future of Jackson Park
Obama’s center? Sure. An elite golf course? Not so much.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2017
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Barbecuing, jacking, and other sights from the 2017 Chosen Few Picnic & Festival
The view from the crowd during the annual house-music extravaganza in Jackson Park.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2017
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The end of an era: Cook County clerk David Orr reportedly won't run again, and other Chicago news
Also, a former pro wrestler, who also happens to be Kellyanne Conway's first client, is running for Illinois governor.
