The Crerar Library’s plentiful holdings of unique ephemera show Chicago’s role in the chocolate industry.

A 101-year-old photographer’s life is exposed.

The Art Institute of Chicago displays 40 egoyomis, which, appropriately, hang in a quiet, dimly lit corridor of the new Japanese Galleries.

A time both romanticized and known for formidable hardship, 1880–1924 marked the second wave of Jewish immigrants relocating to Chicago. Escaping persecution, Eastern European Jews packed into the Near West Side until the average block teemed with 10,023 residents…

In the late 1800s, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago undertook an impressive engineering project to reverse the flow of the Chicago River…

Around Town editor Madeline Nusser remembers her favorites of 2010, and bigger was not better.

Thanks to Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, we’ve been keeping ever later (or earlier, depending how you see it) hours this season. The Adler Planetarium has another excuse for you to be nocturnally inclined: the total lunar eclipse…

The Art Institute's massive mistletoe ball invites kissing and questions.

It’s a bit difficult to follow this bilingual exhibit of books, ephemera and maps at the Newberry Library Galleries if you’re not well versed in the Mexican Revolution. That said, displays of books—the most interesting are bound letters from U.S.

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