Alternating Currents and Quad City Arts have selected artists from ninety-two submissions for the AC Mural Fest, taking place across five locations in downtown Davenport, Bettendorf and Rock Island.

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An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

Today in Chicago culture: Monday, August 4, 2025.Ear Taxi Music Festival Returns Ear Taxi Festival, the Midwest’s largest celebration of new and experimental music, returns this fall for the first ...

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Today in Chicago culture: Tuesday, August 5, 2025.DINING & DRINKING Bocadillo Market Comes To West Town Bocadillo Market “brings unique sandwiches and more to West Town” pictures Eater Chicago.

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 ...

By John Greenfield As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument ...

While I ride CTA trains a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red and Blue routes from ...

Today In Culture, Thursday, July 31, 2025: Eaves Opening At Lyric | Car-Free Days On Milwaukee Avenue | Cleve Carney Announces Hokusai Japan Fest by Ray Pride | July 31, 2025 ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Tagalog word gigil refers to the urge to squeeze or pinch something adorable. It’s an ecstatic tension that verges on overflowing the container of decorum. In the coming ...

His thrice-yearly World Explorer magazine describes itself “Strange Tales of Discovery…and More Far-Out Adventures in Faraway Places.” A recent issue features a long story by Childress on Borobudur, ...