Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by WateRR & Machacha, Half Gringa, and ...

Plus: A proposal to ease housing banishment laws and the Army Corps drops plans for a toxic sludge dump in Calumet Harbor.

A neighbor’s doorbell recording showed Sheila Albers that the official report was wrong. She turned to public records to find ...

Taigo Onez talks about straddling hip-hop and house, his goals for his Bang Le’ Dex label, and his work as electronic format ...

Reconnecting with a teenage performing fantasy at Newport Theater, where "everyone who walks through the doors" is welcome.

Splash Hatch on the E Going Down at Definition Theatre looks at environmental racism and Black maternal health.

The Non-Equity Jeff Awards move to the Harris in a night of celebration marked by joy, love of community, and resistance.

A history of a "school for wayward girls" reveals issues with youth justice and juvenile detention centers in Illinois.

Fratti uses electronic effects to process her cello and build scaffolding loops, often adding intertwining layers of ...

In the early 1990s, trombonist Jeb Bishop became an essential part of Chicago’s musically and geographically outward-looking ...

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The city says it paid $700,000 for a “law enforcement search engine” from the maker of ShotSpotter. But are police using it?