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Today In Culture, Thursday, October 1, 2026: The Banchets Announce Finalists | Steep Theatre’s New Edgewater Home | SAIC’s Korean Studies Professorship

Subscribe to Newcity Today here. “Encompassing Chicago Modernism, the Monster Roster, Chicago Imagism, the Hairy Who and ...
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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

Next spring Broadway In Chicago will bring back two fan-favorite shows. The ABBA-scored, Greece-set “Mamma Mia!” will run ...
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Editor’s Letter: October 2026

Look for Newcity’s October 2026 print edition at Chicago-area locations this week or subscribe to the print edition at ...
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25 Percent Is Better Than 0 Percent

We gave a Chicagoan four questions about his own city's roads, with the street names taken off the map, and he got one of ...
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Today In Culture, Friday, September 25, 2026: Chicago Architecture Center’s Marquette Hub | DePaul Art Museum Protest | The Land School’s Café

Bad at Sports Sets MCA Tailgate “Bad at Sports is taking over the lawn behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for the ...
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Today In Culture, Friday, September 18, 2026: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Next Play | New Chicago Restaurants Opening | Chicago International’s 2026 Lineup

This fall, Hana Pietri will open a West Town art space called the Living Room on the second floor of 350 North Ogden. “Soon after arriving to Chicago from Paris in 2011, French American artist ...
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Today In Culture, Thursday, September 17, 2026: Sanford Biggers’ Chicago Sculpture | Ravinia’s Next Major Renovation | Big Accolades for City Dining

“An artistic take on human lungs, with bronchi squiggling outward like a root system. Dark matter painted like pearlescent icicles against a Stygian sky. A marble blue-and-green Earth viewed from ...