Shaquille O’Neal presides over the party this weekend. The former NBA champion has dabbled in music for decades and will perform at The Salt Shed as his EDM alter ego DJ Diesel. As Rolling Stone once ...

Chance the Rapper heads up the hometown “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” Metro and Salt Shed hold music parties and the New Philharmonic plans its annual celebration.

The country music world has lost some iconic names in 2025, and sadly the list has grown through the first half of December. As we head into the final weeks of the year, we take a moment to look back ...

The free summertime classical series in Millennium Park will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with work from dozens of ...

The Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee has passed a revised teen curfew ordinance as a way to control large teen ...

Members of the Chicago City Council will once again vote on proposals to try to stop large gatherings of teens downtown, ...

Chicago rapper Lil Blessin was a true “bubbling under” talent for some time before the release of his viral breakout “Likka ...

Chicago police have released video as they try to identify a person of interest in a killing last month on the Southwest Side ...

In July, the Atlantic ran a story about a vanishing resource that was once commonplace in publications covering arts and culture: event listings. The story’s author, career musician Gabriel Kahane, ...

As many movie theaters struggle to attract audiences in the age of streaming, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre is preparing to double its screen count. The arthouse cinema announced last week that it has ...

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Chicago saw the fewest homicides in a single year in 2025 in six decades, according to data released by the Chicago Police ...