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A new artistic project, Inequity for Sale, raises awareness for Chicago’s predatory lending history.

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Chicago plans to spend at least $60 million to boost the arts and local artists citywide. The Arts 77 recovery and reopening program will focus on employing creative workers through city services and programs; increase public sector investments in the arts through financing and cultural policy; and expand involvement in the creative and cultural sector across the city’s 77 community areas. The program was announced Tuesday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the Department o...

Chicago announces Arts 77, a huge increase in arts funding, with $60 million for artists, concerts and new public art at O’Hare Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune © Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune An image of Chicagos Picasso sculpture is on display in a window OHare International Airport in April 2020. The Arts 77 plan will include funding for public art as part of the airports expansion. In the biggest show of civic support for the arts in years, if not decades, City of Chicago off...

Vogue announced that it will publish a limited-edition inauguration version of the magazine featuring a more formal portrait of the new VP. “Obviously we have heard and understood the reaction to the [original] print cover,” editor-in-chief Anna Wintour said. “And I just want to reiterate that it was absolutely not our intention to, in any way, diminish the importance of the vice president-elect’s incredible victory.” ( Meet the Photographer Documenting Harris’s Historic Term – ...

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times As Chicago’s art scene continues to weather unprecedented hardship during the pandemic, the city plans to fund major public art projects in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. A $750,000 Artist Response Program was announced Monday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, as part of a $2.5 million effort to fund Chicago artists and arts organizations. The Artist Response Program will support art...

The Artist Response Program is part of an overall $2.5 million in artist commissions and grant opportunities. Applications are now open.