From omakase counters to sizzling steakhouses, here’s where to splurge, savor and stay on your next Windy City trip ...

A critic unpacks the month long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers.

Plus, more tear gas and rubber bullets outside a Chicago-area ICE facility. Here’s what you need to know today.

In an open letter published on Monday, the artists cite Spotify’s compensation model for artists, the proliferation of unlabeled AI-generated music, and the company’s algorithm-driven model that ...

Redford is one of four actors who starred in three different films that each spawned at least one No. 1 song on the Billboard ...

Now, 50 years after “Lovin’ You,” Riperton will be honored Wednesday night with a tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl featuring Wonder, George Benson, Lizz Wright, Aloe Blacc, Alex Isley and Chanté ...

That may sound like too tidy a summary for such an undertaking, but Reed quickly reteamed with Sima Cunningham, his “no. 2” ...

In 2023 Closed Casket self-released the EP Death at a Funeral, where the four MCs approach the mike like they’ve been prodded out of a circle of hollering friends and have to spit each line with a ...

"I'm currently back in the Midwest and the Chicago area playing songs from my upcoming album at various record shows this ...

Meanwhile, the village of Dolton hosted a birthday celebration for Pope Leo at his childhood home on 141st Street on Sunday.

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home ...