Chicago Reader

Chicago’s zoning process is complex and convoluted. Some local leaders, like Alder Daniel La Spata, show it doesn’t have to be.

Chicago men coordinate stylish sets and outfits for street daywear as well as at a recent Costume Council event at Chicago History Museum.

Sheal Patel’s Dhuaan Barbecue Company returns to the next Monday Night Foodball at Frank and Mary’s Tavern

Chicago crew Teklife formed in 2011, and they’ve thrived as an electronic dance collective, fashion brand, and record label with footwork as the group’s impenetrable core. Founders DJ Rashad (aka Rashad Harden, who died in 2014) and DJ Spinn (aka Morris Harper) met as teens in the mid-90s and bonded over the DJ mixes they’d […]

Local band Beach Bunny's Pool Party on Ice will give you a dose of summer when you most need it, in the dark and gloomy winter.

Chicago R&B singer Megan Hammond, better known as m.e.h., delivers searching lyrics as though she’s already figured out what to do. With her steadfast poise and voluptuous voice, she balances confidence and vulnerability, which gives her music a disarming sincerity. In August, Hammond self-released the two-song EP Coup de Grâce, where she handles stylistically slippery […]

Lucero can turn a crowd into a communion; their concerts help you feel seen in ways you didn’t realize you needed.

New York City rapper Dave East delivers verses like a freight train—just as a train is unassuming and familiar in its bulk and speed, his performances

Pegasus Theatre Chicago kicks off the new year with new voices through the Young Playwrights Festival, now in its 38th edition.

Early-70s country-rock band JD, Foster & Eastman never released a song, but now you can finally hear how great their albums would’ve been.