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Queen Key at Summer Smash and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Queen Key at Summer Smash and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Crazy Rich Asians and more goings on 8/17-8/19.

By Katie Powers

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Arts & Culture

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.

By Deanna Isaacs
Arts & Culture

Music, movement, and politics take root at the MCA Dance Fest

Tamar-kali's Demon Fruit Blues and Damon Locks's Where Future Unfolds use the black musical heritage to explore contemporary problems.

By Irene Hsiao
Blogs

Noir City: Chicago travels back in time to the postwar golden age of noir

The organizing principle seems to have been: what was a typical night at the movies like for the average American crime fiction fan in the late 40s and 50s?

By Ben Sachs

ThoughtPoet is on a mission to capture the beauty in black Chicago

By Matt Harvey | 08.17.18
With a confused Richard III, Muse of Fire goes out with a flicker

By Tony Adler | 08.17.18
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Once a performer at Dance for Life, Hanna Brictson returns with her own company

By Oliver Sava | 08.17.18
At the Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith wants to reshape the narrative of black life in America

By Tyra Nicole Triche | 08.17.18
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Yippie Fest, the successor to the dear departed Abbie Fest, comes back for a second year

By Jack Helbig | 08.17.18

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Key Ingredient and Cocktail Challenge say goodbye A look back on the most daring recipes and the most creative drinks By Julia Thiel

Five pairings of fine wine and classic Chicago fast food

Trump Tower’s new restaurant: Run by lizard people?

Music: Ephraim Bugumba sings his refugee’s tale as Storyteller

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Cityscape: How the Lakefront Was Won

Every sizable city has a symphony and an art museum, but no one has lakefront parks like ours. How we got them is the subject of a classic book recently reissued.

By James Krohe Jr. | 11.07.91
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By Franklin Soults | 04.24.97

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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.

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