ARIES (March 21-April 19): Archaeologists studying ancient wells have discovered that some weren’t finished in a single effort. Communities might dig to the current water table, use the well for years ...

“Chicago Fire owner Joe Mansueto has been widely praised for bankrolling his own $750 million soccer stadium on the South Loop parcel known as The 78. But taxpayers would be subsidizing that ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in the coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior ...

Subscribe to Newcity Today here. The Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation has announced the installation of “Book Bird” (2023) at ...

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 ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

Lou Raizin has a big idea. It’s not the first time. The impresario, who leads Broadway in Chicago, was a catalyst in the creation of Millennium Park, and before that, the Loop Theater District. Lou’s ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

$50,000 “Anonymous Was a Woman” Grant To Candida Alvarez “Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed fifteen artists who will ...

A “nineteenth-century Halsted Street building” in Lincoln Park “was Imagist painter Roger Brown’s residence and studio,” marks Block Club. A push to landmark the building began after the School of the ...

An ARTnews report on this year’s edition of Expo notes that part of Navy Pier’s hall was walled off to create a smaller sales floor. “Dealers were thrilled with the change. ‘It feels fucking great,’ ...