Most ethnic social clubs like the Aid Society have disappeared. Built by immigrants as bridges to the old country, their ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced its 2025 edition of “21Minus” for June 14, from 1-6pm. The event “is an annual, daylong celebration of creativity curated by Chicago teens for ...

“Set in a former currency exchange remodeled into a sanctuary filled with spinning records and steeping tea,” Theaster Gates and Rebuild Foundation’s “A Listening Space” invites the public into a ...

“At the Art for Tomorrow conference in Milan, participants faced sobering financial and geopolitical realities, while still finding reasons for hope and joy,” reports the New York Times. “’We all ...

Look for Newcity’s May 2025 print edition at over 300 Chicago-area locations this week or subscribe to the print edition at Newcityshop.com. The Granola Couple These college sweethearts say “no” to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I remember smelling my grandpa’s pipes, pulling them one by one from an immaculately polished brown leather box kept on quiet display in his den, lifting the lid and instantly being transported to ...

He lives on in crackling 1930s football footage: a running back in a long, Homeric dash ranging from sideline to sideline, on a field so muddy water stands in visible pools; he is a speeding human ...

Four years ago, I wrote a piece on heroin use for Newcity. Since then, I moved to New York, hit rock bottom, and returned to Chicago. Much has developed over the past four years. While I was in New ...