Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Wrightwood 659’s “The First Homosexuals” Will Show Alongside Art Basel Kunstmuseum ...

“Herzog & de Meuron has begun renovating Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum building to serve as Sotheby’s New York headquarters, set to open in November,” newsletters Surface magazine. “The ...

An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

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They’ve been a great option for getting around—it’s like having spare bikes around the city. But I’m worried about Divvy’s future.

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Goldfinch Gallery Announces Closing “It is with some sadness but mostly, a deep ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol's Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

I’ve been swimming at the Point since I moved to Chicago over twenty years ago, but I only became a regular, a true Point Swimmer, about a decade ago.

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART MCA Leads The Way On Bilingual Museums “Art institutions across the country have ...

His thrice-yearly World Explorer magazine describes itself “Strange Tales of Discovery…and More Far-Out Adventures in Faraway Places.” A recent issue features a long story by Childress on Borobudur, ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.