The Pink Ladies got started somewhere between 1953 and 1955, depending on whom you ask, and lasted into the early 60s, with anywhere from a handful to nearly 50 members at any given time. Many of them ...

The Reader revisits a 1987 feature on iconic actor Robert Townsend that reads "like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations." ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by Hannah A. Barnes, Look Both Days, and DJ Manny.

Music Theater Works goes into the high-spirited pink with Legally Blonde this holiday season.

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), the 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher of the Chicago Reader, is seeking an organized, detail-oriented, collaborative licensed CPA to serve as the ...