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The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras has inspired young musicians from diverse backgrounds since 1946. (Ed Spinelli)

Area musicians create ‘sense of community’ with Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras

February 21, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

Young artists find an outlet for talent "with people you care about who share your passion" with Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras.

The Handel Week Festival is celebrating its 26th season of bringing together top musicians and singers to share the music of that beloved composer. (Handel Week Festival)

Oak Park’s Handel Week offers sacred, secular music and ‘virtuosic cantatas’

February 11, 2025 at 5:24 a.m.

Concerts in Oak Park feature “the most unusual repertoire. Sometimes you’ll only hear those pieces at the Handel Week Festival.”

Scott Shallenbarger, who was the longtime Director of Theatre Arts at Highland Park High School, is directing “I and You,” a two-person play by Lauren Gunderson, starring Amia Korman and Jay Westbrook, at Citadel Theatre Feb. 21-March 23. (Ralph Durham)

Retired Highland Park High School theater arts teacher directs Citadel Theatre play about two students

February 12, 2025 at 9:38 a.m.

Directing a play about a pair of high school students seems like a natural fit for Lincolnshire resident Scott Shallenbarger. After all, he was the Director of Theatre Arts at...

An "Ice Fishing Rodeo" will be among the activities offered at Winter Fest on Feb. 8 at Longfellow Park in Oak Park. (Park District of Oak Park)

Oak Park Winter Fest organizers hoping to ‘keep it cold’ for Feb. 8 event

February 3, 2025 at 4:44 p.m.

Activities for all ages, outdoors and indoors, draw a crowd every year to the Park District of Oak Park’s annual Winter Fest.

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. (baiduhai file)

Marriott Theatre preparing to open 50th anniversary season: ‘The focus is always on quality, affordable entertainment’

January 28, 2025 at 6:06 p.m.

Clever solutions to staging challenges are one reason that the Marriott Theatre, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, has thrived for so long, according to executive director Peter Blair.

Dominic Poeta, owner of Poeta’s Italian Food Market, was interviewed in Mike Leonard’s film about Highwood. (Provided by Mike Leonard)

Highwood Chamber of Commerce commissions documentary about community’s business history

January 27, 2025 at 3:51 p.m.

Jennifur Condon, Executive Director of the Highwood Chamber of Commerce, decided that there is a great story in the number of long-term businesses in that city.

Music Institute of Chicago alumni Hannah White and Joshua White performed at the Music Institute’s 2024 Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration Concert. This year’s

concert is on Jan. 19 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston. (Mike Grittani)

Evanston plans Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events to honor renowned leader

January 14, 2025 at 1:26 p.m.

January 19 is a day dedicated to the memory of the late Baptist minister, activist, and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations honoring King are held throughout...

Photographers Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman comment on the intersection of nature and technology in “Fruit Loops Landscape,” as part of the exhibit, “Sustenance & Land: Five Artists Consider Our Relationship with the Earth” opening Jan. 25 at the Elmhurst Art Museum. (Elmhurst Art Museum)

Elmhurst Art Museum exhibit examines our relationship with the land

January 14, 2025 at 11:40 a.m.

Climate change and "Our Relationship with the Earth” are examined through photos in a new exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Chicago journalist, author, and podcaster Jenniffer Weigel will share inspirational and humorous true stories when she presents “I’m Spiritual, Dammit!,” on Jan. 13 at Wayfarer Theaters in Highland Park. (Provided by Jenniffer Weigel)

Jenniffer Weigel shares her journey in one-woman play at Wayfarer Theaters in Highland Park

January 6, 2025 at 5:32 p.m.

Journalists are taught that you have to see it to believe it. But award-winning Chicago journalist Jenniffer Weigel learned that’s not the only way of viewing the world.

Adventurers will climb to new heights when Mountainfilm on Tour brings action-packed documentaries to Gorton Center in Lake Forest, Jan. 24-25. (Mountainfilm on Tour)

Gorton Center’s Winterfest in Lake Forest will include Mountainfilm on Tour

January 6, 2025 at 4:07 p.m.

A diverse selection of adventure-packed documentaries will be screened at Gorton Center in Lake Forest Jan. 24-25 when the center hosts Mountainfilm on Tour for the seventh year. It’s part...

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