After I lost my cousin to gun violence in 2023, I struggled between my desire for justice and the reality of Illinois’s harsh gun sentences.

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Anna Johnson has been on a musical crusade ever since she moved to Chicago from Minneapolis in 2021 to pursue a master’s of fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Two nonprofit organizations are accusing the state judiciary of failing to adhere to public reporting mandates.

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For artist Olivia Zubko, the bathroom as a space for hidden intimacies bubbles through her sculpture practice.

Rapper Open Mike Eagle is so witty and such a skilled lyricist that those virtues can overshadow his subtlety on the mike.

The Leighton Criminal Court Building at 2600 S. California Credit: Eric Allix Rogers/Flickr via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA) took full effect in September 2023. The landmark ...

Graham Hunt likes to dress up his arrangements with bold details that immediately start to sound like they’re exactly where they belong.

Two massive data centers are eyeing drinking water from Lake Michigan. Advocates and experts are unsure if that’s the best ...

The Independent Productions Initiative helps fund new artists and projects, and the Greenhouse Theater Center gives smaller companies a home.