[soliloquy id=”26205″] It’s a week since the doors to C2E2 2018 opened and all the cosplayers, fans, vendors and celebrities filled up McCormick Place with geeky goodness. Now that we’ve […]

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art co-commissioned Bellowing Sun, the sixth album from Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors, once a solo project and now a quartet including Jim Becker, violinist from […]

Hot on the heels of last weekend’s C2E2 convention is the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee at the Wisconsin Center. This “unique social trade show” has been around for 20 […]

I’m going to admit something to you: I was pretty hyped about developer Iron Galaxy’s apocalyptic monster slayer Extinction. It looked to me like an Attack on Titan anime meets […]

You should fully expect to see “from the producers who brought you Get Out” in front of a lot of not-nearly-as-good horror films over the next year or two, beginning […]

British-born architect Peter Land has taught at Harvard and here in Chicago for over four decades at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which recently hosted […]

It’s been since 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon that Chicago has taken a epic-sized, big-budgeted walloping the way it does in the video game-inspired Rampage. But something curious happened […]

Would you look at that, the forecast is predicting two(!), count ’em, TWO days of spring weather this weekend before a wintry mix and rain descend upon Chicago. We’ll take […]

The Illinois Senate voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment after an astonishing 36 years, becoming the 37th state to ratify the 1972 amendment. “I think voting to ratify the […]

A former Chicago aviation police officer is suing the City and an airline for being fired after he helped drag a 69 year-old man off a United Airlines flight when […]

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is the nation’s third least popular governor, with an approval rating of just 26 percent and a disapproval rating of 60. According to a new poll […]

I’ll fully admit that for decades, I have been a sucker for thrillers steeped in real-world political intrigue, whether the events at the heart of the story being told are […]