Nearly 70 properties are in receivership after Jiazhao ‘Frank’ Chen defaulted on at least $119 million in real estate loans. A proposed landlord registry could help the city track irresponsible ...

Experimental Sound Studio uses all 24 channels of the Pritzker Pavilion audio system. Plus: Further fests this week include ...

Hailing from Hangzhou, China—a scenic city that’s now a major tech hub—Celine Lam comes by her wistfully critical painting ...

A new Russian Circles album is always something to look forward to. The instrumental metal trio’s most recent album, 2022’s ...

As a songwriter, Susie McCollum’s influences include jazz, opera, R&B, theatrical music, and folk tunes—a repertoire that ...

Katie Prout (she/her/hers) is a features writer for the Chicago Reader. She received her BA from Kalamazoo College and her MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. In 2020, Katie’s profile of ...

Revocation have been blasting out fiendishly intricate technical death metal for more than a quarter century. Led by ...

Orange County duo the Garden make punk rock like they were raised on the Internet. Wyatt Shears plays bass and guitar, his twin brother, Fletcher, plays drums, and they both contribute vocals and ...

Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap ...

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Chicago theater alumni and other local talent shot the low-budget indie rom-com Block Party this summer in Bowmanville.

Born from hip-hop in the 1970s, turntablism is having its biggest moment in pop and rock since the nu-metal boom a generation ...