Category: Events, entertainment
Make Monday a family fun day
Uncle Sam on Stilts (stilts not pictured), The Whistling Pig, the Jesse White Tumblers, Tastefest, music, fireworks, races, rides and a whole lot mo [...]
YoChicago takes its journal writers out for a beer
It ain't easy building Chicagoland's top Web site for housing and neighborhoods. How are we doing it? Well, frankly, we're shunting an awful lot of [...]
Up above it all: partying at the Peninsula Terrace
If you have ever stayed at the Peninsula Hotel, you understand why it's the only place to stay in Chicago for a certain variety of tourist. And it wou [...]
See a historic building, buy someone else's junk at condo association garage sale
This weekend, the Randolph Place condo association is holding a "garage" sale in the alley behind the building, located at 165 N Canal St in the Fulto [...]
Antique market in West Loop
The Chicago Antique Market returns to Randolph Street in the West Loop on June 25, and on the last Sunday of every month through October 29.
An indoo [...]
Yet another Old Town festival
Sure, there are two "art fairs" happening in the Old Town neighborhood today--sometimes I think they should call them "craft fairs"--but there's also [...]
An art fair fair warning
The venerable Old Town Art Fair and its third-rate knock-off, the Wells Street Art Festival, are both on tap for this weekend. The latter was design [...]
Urban streetscapes on view at MCA expand photographer's reputation
Catherine Opie gained fame and generated controversy in the 1990s with her photographs [many self-portraits] depicting Los Angeles' leather / S&M / [...]
Headline of the day: Eat it, Music Box
Erica Gunderson, YoChicago's johnny-on-the-spot in Irving Park, shows a little neighborhood pride, feistiness even, about what looks like the resurr [...]
You can't take the farm out of the city
There's a sad irony in seeing farmers whose land is increasingly being bought up and replaced with Walgreen's, Sprint stores, Starbucks and housing su [...]
Take a ride on the Bronzeville art tour trolley
Bronzeville has seen a resurgence of residential and commercial development, including the renovation of historic homes along King Drive and the addit [...]
Happy National Flavors Day: the lowdown on Chicago's painted people
Ah, it warms the Yo's heart to see people of all different colors banding together in the streets to draw attention to an important cause. Perhaps th [...]
Mies van der Rohe and the Krispy Kremes
This particular cog in the Yo Chicago wheel can't say enough about the Chicago Cycling Club's weekend tours. Taking one of the club's rides is a great [...]
Lake View Mayfest: think of it as a really big block party
If you've got the Monday workweek blues, you might want to pay particular attention to what's coming this weekend. Mayfest hits Lake View this Friday, [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright housewalk in OP-RF
That's right, it's time again for the Wright Plus benefit housewalk in Oak Park and River Forest. The 32nd annual walk is May 20, and features rare in [...]
Estudiotres opens shop in Andersonville
We must say we're a tad surprised to hear that Estudiotres, a hot new gallery focusing on national and international artists, is opening not in an art [...]
Ivanka, Don Jr. on hand to hawk Trump condos
It was shoulder to shoulder the other night at a Trump Tower reception, where guests thought they might get a glimpse of The Donald himself. In the [...]
Manifest art party hits South Loop streets
Columbia College promises to help you "finally discover what the South Loop buzz is all about" when 2,000 graduating students (and their artwork) ta [...]
Designing your week: architect Bernard Tschumi at Art Institute
The Architecture and Design Society will present a lecture by leading architectural theorist Bernard Tschumi called "Event-Form" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday [...]
city site zoned for horses, skyline view in Chicago
No, the picture above is not a Photoshopped montage. You can catch this bucolic tableau on the corner of Sedgwick and Evergreen, where the stars of t [...]