ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ...

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Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Cleveland Museum Of Art Acquires Rare Giambologna Sculpture The Cleveland Museum ...

The Greensfelder Design Studio is a childlike page in the story of our city. It is tucked away in a former bookbinder’s storefront at 2119 West Roscoe. The studio is owned and operated by Tom ...

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 ...

After World War II, thousands of servicemen returned home from the war. Some resumed normal lives with their families. Others, shell-shocked, lonely and suffering from what we now know as ...

This is what the scene must have been at the Santa Fe Grain Elevator one hundred years ago. Located off the Damen Avenue exit of I-55, this massive city within a city was built in 1906 just off its ...

We pass through Wicker Park and Logan Square. Not coincidentally, multiple young people with bright blue and acid-green hair have gotten on the train. My friend is arriving from Uptown by bus to the ...

Chicago’s Peace Garden is not a particularly peaceful place. Located in Uptown next to Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Buena Avenue underpass, its tranquility is undermined by the constant roar of ...

Civic Opera House Projection Imagine the spectacle: an audience gathers in 2 North Riverside’s east-facing plaza, looking out across the river toward the blank wall of the Civic Opera House. An opera ...

The Newtons dressed in matching outfits, generally in mixes of bright red, white and black. They both wore their hair in black bangs. In June 2006 the Newtons left their beloved Aurora mansion and put ...

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Valerie Carberry Named President-CEO Of Gray Gray has named Valerie Carberry the ...