Local vendors and collectors say the appeal of physical media isn’t just nostalgia; it’s ownership streaming platforms can’t revoke.

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The Little Palestine Project charts an oral history of Chicago’s southwest suburbs through treasured possessions.

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Nimba chef Lydia London talks to comic artist Coco Picard about keeping her grandmother’s Liberian recipes alive in Chicago.

At Shanghai Seminary, feral impulses are visible through the revelatory voyeuristic interventions of Geof Oppenheimer.

Casa Cafe’s bookers are pursuing a city license so they can safely restart shows. Plus: DJ Paul Nixon launches the pop-up shop Happy Home Records, and more.

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish ...