A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

As masked federal agents kidnap people off the streets, a state bill to protect medical face coverings sits in limbo. In ...

Situated at 79th and Clyde, Chicago Body Shop neighbors a few tire shops, but its mission is not to tune up your car, but a ...

Dozzy’s Grill fires up a daytime West African Memorial Day barbecue at the next Monday Night Foodball at Frank and Mary’s ...

Mother Tania Whitfield thinks that Trump and the GOP proposed cuts to SNAP to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Science Man has become a full band, and it brings the goods so hard that their nonsense doesn’t feel gimmicky—it’s just icing ...

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...

Neu Blume make music that celebrates the joy and contentment in the everyday. The Detroit-based band is led by the duo of vocalist Mo Neuharth and vocalist-guitarist Colson Miller, who moved to the ...

Khanate have always felt like a band crawling through an abyss out of time, so while it was a surprise when they dropped an unannounced fifth album 14 years after 2009’s Clean Hands Go Foul, it made ...