Painter Paul Heyer Takes Inspiration from His South Suburban Hometown By Jason Foumberg The artist’s work will be featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art this month. Read more
What The Chi Gets Right (and Wrong) About Chicago's South Side By Charles Preston We can get pretty critical about how mass media portrays our neighborhoods. Here's what to expect from Lena Waithe's new Showtime series. Read more
Top 10 Things to Do This Week in Chicago Traitor, B-Side Vinyls Shop + Swap, Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968–1975, 42nd Street, First Monday Jazz: Sam Trump, and more Read more
Lena Waithe Comes Home Interview by Carrie Schedler Fresh off an Emmy win, the suddenly in-demand screenwriter returns to her roots with The Chi, her new series about life on the South Side. Read more
The Shut-In’s Guide to Winter By Teresa Manring Albums, books, movies, and more to snuggle up with as you hibernate this season Read more
Black Star Renegades Pays Homage to the World’s Most Famous Space Opera By Adam Morgan Michael Moreci’s Star Wars–inspired sci-fi novel releases this month. Read more
58 Things to Do in Chicago in January By Jason Foumberg, John Hardberger, Britt Julious, Graham Meyer, Catey Sullivan, and Lauren Warnecke The best things to do in Chicago this month, selected by our culture critics Read more
The Best Chicago Magazine Photographs in 2017 Words alone couldn't capture the breadth of stories we told in 2017. From wrestlers to refugees, the River to Brutalist buildings, here are the best shots of the year. Read more
Yep, Odinaka Ezeokoli's Episode of Easy Is His Real Life By Elena Bruess If you thought the story line of a rising Chicago comic juggling two part-time jobs sounded too real to be fiction, you were right. Read more
A Year of Grieving Publicly By Deborah Shapiro After Anjali Pinto’s husband died suddenly at age 30, the photographer didn’t turn inward. She turned to Instagram. Read more
