Neu Blume Credit: Courtesy the artist 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 city from Arizona, where they’d cofounded Phoenix indie-rock group Nanami Ozone. In Neu Blume, they create … Read more
In 2024, Chicago police made arrests in 16 percent of fatal shootings within a year of the incident. Credit: Josh Druding for Chicago Reader This story was published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. Seven years ago, Zhiene Washington was talking to her mother … Read more
Kelly Xi became an artist by chance. As an undergraduate, her focus was initially on molecular biology. But a scheduling conflict landed her in a Photoshop class instead of the molecular genetics class she’d intended to take, and her life course was forever changed. “From that first interface I was like, ‘Oh I could do … Read more
Case closed. For the past six years, Jeff Mauro has been on the hunt to track down four framed jerseys that went missing since his Pork & Mindy’s sandwich shops were shuttered in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in 2019. Mauro posted on Reddit in September looking for leads, hoping someone knew something about the … Read more
The annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in January is a highlight of the Chicago theater season, but the festival works year-round to help develop new work and artists. Opening this weekend for its fourth year, the festival’s Puppet Lab Showcase, presented at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center in Hermosa, and led by codirectors Tom … Read more
Ariel Atkins has quietly put together an excellent career as a complementary piece to star teammates. The Sky want her to step into a spotlight of her own. They traded the No. 3 overall pick to the Mystics for Atkins before the season, believing they were acquiring a star guard, and lately she has played … Read more
A bucket drum kit with trash can lids, a marimba made from 12 types of wood, rubber-band-strung pegboard guitars, double-decker turntables with alligator tips, and other manipulated and built musical instruments fill the space of Comfort Station in Madeleine Aguilar and Jordan Knecht’s “(un)learning Center.” As the above list of modified musical instruments suggests, this … Read more
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Por primera vez en su historia, la Secundaria Magnet Whitney M. Young tuvo 23 estudiantes que lograron puntuaciones perfectas en el ACT. “Es un logro fenomenal”, dijo el director Rickey Harris. “Estamos muy orgullosos de ellos”. El mes pasado, la clase de penúltimo … Read more
DOJ probes Johnson admin Mayor Brandon Johnson Credit: Chicago Mayor’s Office The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration for allegedly making hiring decisions “solely on the basis of race.” The federal civil rights probe, launched under Attorney General Pam Bondi, came after Johnson highlighted key Black officials in his cabinet … Read more
A fire truck heads north on Audrey Lane, past a temporary traffic-calming island near Central Road in Mount Prospect. Steve Zalusky/szalusky@dailyherald.com Mount Prospect is wrapping up a three-week trial of traffic-calming measures designed to address nearly three decades of resident complaints along a popular cut-through route. The complaints range from drivers ignoring “no through-traffic” … Read more