“The Milwaukee-based Ruth Foundation for the Arts has named the five artists who have won its 2026 Ruth Awards. They are Yuji ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before major eruptions, volcanoes may emit harmonic tremors. Lasting for hours or days, they are signals that pressure is building. A similar phenomenon is simmering in your ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the Brazilian rainforest, Cecropia trees and Azteca ants have a special relationship. The trees’ hollow branches serve as nesting spaces for the ants and offer them sugar ...

As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument. It’s a Thursday ...

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 ...

In 1972 the mysterious environmental marauder known as the Fox recruited me when I was editor of the Naperville Central High School newspaper. He called me through a vocal harmonizer to disguise his ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Puck, Marion Maneker profiles the head of Freeman’s, which merged with Chicago auction house Hindman Auctioneers in early 2024. “Freeman’s, the ambitious Midwest auction house, is conquering the ...

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 ...

The Prairie State doesn’t get much flatter or emptier than the narrow northern panhandle of Ford County, Illinois, about eighty miles south-southwest of Chicago. Stretching on the map like an upraised ...