A Showcase for Chicago Black Dance By Lauren Warnecke A dance project’s Pritzker Pavilion performance will spotlight the breadth of local troupes. Read more
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Helmut Jahn Would Have Wanted This By AJ LaTrace and Jake Malooley With Google reviving the Thompson Center, we dug up three unpublished interviews with the late architect on his greatest — and most divisive — Chicago building. Read more
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