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- City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 11, 2020
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Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- City Life, Community Aug 10, 2020
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Veggie Bingo lives on
From the Hideout to Zoom, community finds a way.
- News & Politics, Comics Feature Jun 10, 2020
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The new normal
What the aftermath of coronavirus will bring for Chicago’s small businesses
- Music, Chicagoans of Note May 12, 2020
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Billy Helmkamp, co-owner of the Whistler and Sleeping Village
“This is gonna devastate our industry. We were the first to close; we’re gonna be the last to reopen. A lot of venues aren’t gonna make it.”
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 12, 2020
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Bob Dylan’s ode to Chicago
The new Michael Reese TIF plan tries to undo the damage of the old one.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 16, 2019
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The show goes on
One era ends and another begins for our beloved First Tuesdays.
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Sep 19, 2019
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Helltrap Nightmare wishes Chicago a fond, freaky farewell
The weirdo-comedy staples perform a sold-out show before heading west.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 18, 2019
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The rise of the viral drag queens
A generation that grew up queer on the Internet finds a home on Chicago’s drag stages.
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 2, 2019
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Making the radical left laugh
Monkey Wrench host Arish Singh and collaborator Basim Usmani on political comedy, Trump, and why you can't trust white liberals.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 23, 2019
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Why won’t City Hall fight for Chicago’s homegrown music scene?
The Chicago Independent Venue League shouldn’t have to push back against the Live Nation handouts in the Lincoln Yards development—but the city doesn’t protect its own treasures.
- Music, In Rotation Dec 14, 2018
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Racetraitor guitarist Dan Traitor on connecting hardcore and union organizing
Plus: Fern X Decline on his inspiration as a front man, the Reader’s Jamie Ludwig on the outsiders who seeded the Australian punk scene, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2018
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More than 100 people showed up at a public meeting in order to save the Hideout
Instead Alderman Brian Hopkins announced he'd already introduced a zoning ordinance to protect the beloved bar.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
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I guess we won’t have Rahm to kick around anymore
In a surprise decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced he won't seek a third term in office.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2018
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Join Blue Beginning as it sends the Democratic troops into the collar counties
Part of Indivisible Chicago, the organization is a get-out-the-vote campaign focused on Republican-leaning suburbs and municipalities as well neighboring swing states.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2018
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We need a citywide hearing for the Lincoln Yards project
Sterling Bay has big plans for the 70 acres they're developing along the Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2018
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The pattern to Rahm's sexual predator, filthy schools, and special ed scandals
If anything points to the need for an elected CPS school board that’s independent of the mayor, this is it.
- Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2018
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Colossal concert promoter Live Nation adds its financial muscle to the Lincoln Yards development
Sterling Bay's plans for Lincoln Yards continue to metastasize, with or without Amazon. Say a prayer for the Hideout.
- Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2018
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Special education kids fight for scraps as city touts shiny new developments
Who wants to bet there will be plenty of public money for soccer stadiums and upscale communities, but not enough for the students?
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 2, 2018
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Another ‘grass gap’ in Chicago opens between blacks and whites on legalization
A practical explanation for why black voters were less supportive of the referendum to legalize recreational marijuana than whites.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Mar 14, 2018
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At Fort Willow David Morton and Michael Kornick have built a tree house among the faded factories
Chef Deirdre Quinn’s spicy menu is the cocktail bar’s thirst-kindling reason to play there.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 7, 2018
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Sarah Squirm's comedy celebrates her body in all its oozing, disgusting glory
Helltrap Nightmare, the monthly showcase she hosts at the Hideout, is a circus of vulgarity.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2018
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The Moth GrandSlam storytelling show and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
An artist talk with Bharti Kher and more goings-on February 26-March 1.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2017
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CFA receives MacArthur Grant to produce International Media Mixer
Chicago Film Archives and Lab 80 film (Bergamo, Italy) will exchange digitized film footage and then commission media artists from their respective countries to create new works from the partner's footage.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2016
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Logan Square Food Truck Social, Grace Bonney, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Grateful Dead Brunch, Open house Chicago, and other happenings from October 14-16.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2016
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There goes the Hideout on the gig poster of the week
This week's gig poster was created by local artist Ryan Duggan and features Brian Costello blowing up the Hideout.
