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Today In Culture, Monday, October 19, 2026: The Chicago Happy Meal | Hancock Tower’s New SOM Space | Metra’s Dream Budget

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. DESIGN. What Metra Would Do With $9 Billion. A plan for regional ...
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Today In Culture, Friday, October 9, 2026: SOFA Chicago Plans Return | Tanner Woodford’s Hometown Billboard | Theo Ubique’s New Artistic Director

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Today In Culture, Friday, October 16, 2026: Tony Lewis At The Ren | Smashing Pumpkins Hosts Rat Hole | RIP Wm. Bullion

She says she has also put diversity at the forefront of all it has done from hiring curators to making acquisitions.” The Ren Will Host Tony Lewis’ First Solo Show In Chicago The Renaissance Society ...
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Today In Culture, Thursday, October 15, 2026: Lillstreet’s New Ownership | Soul Train Awards Headed Home | Trader Joe’s New Chicago Locations

“Samantha Walton, a philanthropist whose family is behind the Walmart empire, is the new owner of Ravenswood’s Lillstreet Art Center,” reports Block Club. “Walton has been coming to Lillstreet since ...
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Today In Culture, Tuesday, October 13, 2026: Tony Cokes’ Art Institute Billboard | The Obamas’ South Side Offices | Restaurants Going Affordable

The Art Institute’s rooftop terrace will host “Tony Cokes: On Boredom,” through March 14, 2027, announces the Art Institute. “This two-part installation turns the terrace windows facing Millennium ...
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Free Will Astrology: Week of October 15, 2026

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana ...
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Open House Chicago Returns October 17-18

Explore more than 200 sites across 30+ neighborhoods, including iconic landmarks, hidden gems, and buildings rarely open to ...
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Today In Culture, Wednesday, September 23, 2026: Buckingham Chairs Made Permanent | Chris Ware at Pretty Good Fest | R.I.P. Mick Levine

Art Institute president James Rondeau announced that “the museum is returning Jean Metzinger’s ‘Woman with a Fan’ to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein (1870–1930),” the museum ...
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Today In Culture, Friday, October 2, 2026: Uptown Theatre Joins Open House | Kavi Gupta In Dispute | Roche Schulfer on Theater’s Future

“A New York judge has temporarily barred Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta and his gallery from selling or marketing a collection of artworks at the center of an increasingly messy dispute with a company that ...
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Today In Culture, Monday, October 5, 2026: Gertrude Abercrombie’s New Record | Pope Leo on Protecting Creativity | The Radicle Adds Takeout Pizza

The beloved Chicago painter’s posthumous rise has been an unlikely story, and has just reached a new high-water mark: Last week Freeman’s set the world auction record for Abercrombie, as her work ...
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Today In Culture, Wednesday, September 30, 2026: Lookingglass Theatre’s New Leadership | Wieners Circle Rhetoric | Chicago Underground Moves to Music Box

The David Amarri Foundation, created to honor the young Chicago photographer and creative who was killed in 2024, will present A Day for David with Recycled Modern in Hyde Park this October. “The ...