Besides having a good eye for thrifting, Shelly Parks also uses basic sewing skills to help compose her looks.

Reader worth? Think about it. Reflect on how often you’ve picked up the Reader or visited this site over the years. Try to ...

The Chicago Cultural Center's latest exhibit, "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close," celebrates the city as a center ...

Karl Michael Iglesias is a Puerto Rican actor, director and writer from Milwaukee, WI, who now resides in Brooklyn, NY. His ...

The Internet Archive begins posting the Aadam Jacobs Collection. Plus: Four locals heat up the dead of winter with new music.

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The City of Chicago is phasing out Favorite Healthcare Staffing after paying the agency $342 million to oversee its shelter ...

The rest of the album is a blend of originals and reinterpreted standards by the likes of George Gershwin (“Embracable You”) ...

Nandi Rose Plunkett, who makes music as Half Waif, released her sixth full-length album, See You at the Maypole.

Percussion prodigy and washboard wizard Jimmy Bertrand worked with Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey and mentored future star ...

Stop Traffic on Redding Road feels like a Pan•American record, it doesn’t feel like a solo Pan•American record.

A former reporter from the long-gone City News Bureau remembers a brief encounter with Jimmy Carter in Chicago.