The most famous occult Chicago film is almost certainly Candyman (1992), largely set in Cabrini-Green and featuring many more ...

Structured as a series of obituaries, Eden Robins’s literary puzzle box uses an AI character's story to examine the very ...

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before ...

November 5th will mark the first time in the city’s 187 year history that Chicago has elected a school board. Don't panic!

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at ...

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

The more government, the more injustice.” At Mazdaznan’s peak around 1908, he attracted some 18,000 followers worldwide, ...

Subtext Studio Theatre's Que Te Vaya Bien, about a father and son confronting their issues at Wrigley Field, delivers a ...

Chicago organizers have long joined together across racial, ethnic, and geographic lines in the fight for a better city.

ZeroEyes proponents say it will improve public safety by helping police respond faster to potential gun threats. But there ...

For this iteration of the project 60 wrd/min art critic, Lori Waxman reviewed work made by Red Line Service artists.

A guide to the Chicago Reader's October 17, 2024 issue, devoted to spookiness, the Occult, and more, with a magic spell for you to try.