Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art says it plans to greatly expand its live performance offerings in its 300-seat Edlis Neeson Theater.
It has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than now.
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A century after its construction, the island is home to traffic bottlenecks on concert days, erosion problems and a little-known nature preserve.
Gov. J.B. Pritkzer and his wife, M.K., donated a key document from the Civil War to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Open to the public beginning May 10, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” features 250 items that are being revived from years of slumber in the institute’s vast archive, with some in such a delicate state of demise that they can’t be draped on a mannequin or shown upright. These garments will lie in glass coffins — yes, like Sleeping Beauty herself.
The birthplace of one of Illinois’ more notorious politicians might soon be up for sale. Paul Powell was the Illinois secretary of state whose death in 1970 led to the discovery of $800,000 in cash in his Springfield hotel room and Capitol office.