A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

As masked federal agents kidnap people off the streets, a state bill to protect medical face coverings sits in limbo. In ...

Mother Tania Whitfield thinks that Trump and the GOP proposed cuts to SNAP to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

Neu Blume make music that celebrates the joy and contentment in the everyday. The Detroit-based band is led by the duo of vocalist Mo Neuharth and vocalist-guitarist Colson Miller, who moved to the ...

Darren Keen’s solo project Problems, launched in 2020, combines sophisticated electronic production with lyrics so blisteringly sincere it sometimes hurts to listen to them.

Khanate have always felt like a band crawling through an abyss out of time, so while it was a surprise when they dropped an unannounced fifth album 14 years after 2009’s Clean Hands Go Foul, it made ...

Among the standouts are the Madlib-produced banger “Care Plan,” which features a rare guest verse from hip-hop legend Yasiin Bey, and “Yodi Dodi,” where Droog raps about his homebody tendencies over a ...

Calgary postpunk four-piece Preoccupations formed in 2012 from the ashes of noisy art-punk outfit Women. As Viet Cong, they dropped a strong debut album in 2015, then changed their regrettable name ...

Dozzy’s Grill fires up a daytime West African Memorial Day barbecue at the next Monday Night Foodball at Frank and Mary’s ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...