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The Goodman Theatre has revealed its 2024/25 season! See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Performers are mystifying audiences in an elegant downtown basement, a former Rogers Park vaudeville house and even a Lincoln Square gelato shop.

Dennis Watkins, Chicago’s premiere resident magician, has plied his trade of vanishment, extrasensory perception and various other unearthly feats of physical skill for some 15 years at the Palmer House Hilton. He’s been a one-man economic generator for Chicago’s Loop, a tourist pleaser sine pari, and a purveyor of rare, retro downtown glamour in a city where such experiences must remain a ...

Youve probably heard that theater in Chicago — and around the country — is in big trouble. Theaters are scaling back their seasons, shortening the runs of plays and focusing

Good afternoon, Chicago. The Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, who regularly performs religious duties at Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, turned himself in to authorities at Fulton County Jail in Georgia this afternoon. On Aug. 14, Lee was named along with 18 others, including former President Donald Trump who turned himself in Thursday, in an indictment the group broke a variety of laws ...

"I was astonished, and it was the first time I had that feeling of wonder."

Spring = new romances. If you're wondering where you can find love in Chicago (fast!), this list will walk you into the door.

At the Chicago Magic Lounge, the new Trickery and the Magic Parlour, the close-up magic is back. But magicians are finding their stage nerves, if not their hands, need some time to adjust back.