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Maryam Taghavi’s installations, paintings, and institutional interventions appear meditative, tranquil on jewel-toned surfaces, yet they are charged with a consciousness that embraces the impossibility of fully understanding the mysteries between spiritual and ordinary worlds.

Charlotte Street has announced its 2024 The Guest Curator lecture series featuring Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, MCA Chicago; and Carlos Quijon, Jr., Curator, Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia, MoMA.

Artists Maryam Taghavi and Travis Morehead push their subjects to the utmost edge of transformation, with humor and grace.

For the next iteration of its Chicago Works series, the MCA presents the first solo museum exhibition of artist Maryam Taghavi.

Streetsblog recently caught up with CDOT Complete Streets director David Smith for a recap of what bike infrastructure was built in our city this year.

Chicago's fiscal forecast has brightened and near-term surpluses should go to cover supplemental pension contributions and into reserves, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said as she prepares to hand the reins of city government to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson

To help readers before they cast their ballots, we posed a series of questions to the candidates. See their answers here.

Seven years after dropping Chicago to speculative grade citing pension funding, Moody's returned the city to investment grade, citing pension funding.

Representatives of the city’s Department of Transportation and the Budget Office declined to provide WTTW News with a full breakdown of spending during 2021 and 2022 under the banner of Chicago Works.

New GO borrowing authority, a WIFIA loan for lead water service line replacement, and short-term airport financing are before Chicago City Council.