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 ...

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

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

Music Theater Works goes into the high-spirited pink with Legally Blonde this holiday season.

Uduimoh Umolu consistently wants to bring ideas to life. As a full-time entrepreneur and business owner who simultaneously runs a creative design studio and a sales production company, his days ...

Los Angeles songwriter Tchad Cousins, aka Urika’s Bedroom, is well acquainted with the sort of dreamy Alice in Wonderland–style aesthetic of 1960s psychedelic folk.

Arty Chicago punk trio Background Character just celebrated five years as a band and they’re still just as eager to try new ideas as they were on day one ...

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