CAPRICORN: are there any ideas, knowledge or resources you’re holding in reserve that could multiply through sharing?

CAPRICORN: A newly planted orchard spends its first year growing roots, not fruit.

The Auditorium and The Chicago Philharmonic continue the “Auditorium Philms Concert Series” with “Rocky” in concert for the fiftieth anniversary of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning breakthrough. The ...

Subscribe to Newcity Today here. Theaster Gates’ “Monumental” Ode To Black Beauty Coming To Obama Center “When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring,” records CNN, ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument. It’s a Thursday ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

For the past quarter-century, Monique Meloche “has been a force in shaping the city’s contemporary art scene at her West Town gallery, championing artists who challenge, provoke and expand the city’s ...

The Four Deuces was the headquarters of the Chicago Outfit, managed by Johnny “The Brain” Torrio and his protégé Al Capone in the early 1920s. The three-story saloon, brothel and gambling parlor were ...