For five seasons, The Bear made Chicago's restaurant world a character all its own. The kitchens felt real. The food looked real. The cooks moved like people who had spent ye...
Forty years ago, Ferris Bueller called in sick and took Chicago along for the ride.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit the theaters in the summer of 1986 and became one of ...
Chicago-based Sparkly Productions has announced that its latest short film, CHOKE, has been selected for the 2026 Oscar qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival. The film will...
Congratulations go out to Chicago actor Ashlyn Lozano, who won Best Actress for her performance in the short film Tame at the 2026 Best of the Midwest Awards.
Presented July...
Even Hollywood stars get mistaken for other Hollywood stars. During Apple TV+'s Dark Matter press events at San Diego Comic-Con, Joel Edgerton shared one of the funniest fan en...
Mind blown. If there was one trailer at San Diego Comic-Con that left Hall H collectively questioning reality, it was Apple TV+'s Dark Matter.
The streaming service kicked o...
SPOILERS FOR THE CHI, 'THE LAST DANCE' AHEAD.
For eight seasons, The Chi has been one of television's most authentic love letters to Chicago's South Side. It has never shied...
Chicago filmmaker George Ellzey Jr. is bringing his deeply personal first feature one step closer to the big screen.
The Bronzeville writer-director will begin production o...
The Chi concludes its eight-season run after filming entirely in Chicago, leaving behind a lasting legacy for the city's film community.
When Lena Waithe created The Chi, s...
More than 50 Chicago artists, filmmakers, designers and creative professionals came together on a volunteer basis to produce Haute Wheels, a three-minute fashion short that wi...
After eight seasons of love, loss, power struggles, and hard-earned second chances on the South Side, The Chi is approaching its final chapter.
Created by Lena Waithe, The C...
Spoiler alert: This story discusses the series finale of FX’s The Bear, now streaming on Hulu.
For all the talk of Michelin stars, kitchen chaos, debt, grief, perfection a...
The final season of The Bear is serving up more Chicago flavor, this time with a couple of familiar WGN faces.
WGN Chief Meteorologist Demetrius Ivory makes a brief cameo in...
FX’s The Bear has built its reputation one pressure-cooker episode at a time. Across its run, the Chicago-set series has turned restaurant service, family trauma, grief, ambi...
The kitchen is closing, and critics appear mostly satisfied with the final service. The fifth and final season of FX’s The Bear has arrived, bringing the Emmy-winning Chicago...
Deli Boys, the comedy crime series created by Abdullah Saeed and filmed in Chicago, has emerged as one of Hulu's most talked-about breakout shows, earning strong critical revie...
A decades-long political and community battle over Chicago’s proposed third airport will be revisited this weekend at the Chicago History Museum. Holding Pattern, a 56-minute...
After eight seasons, the cast of The Chi is saying goodbye. The hit drama series from creator and executive producer Lena Waithe recently launched its eighth and final season, ...
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss one of Chicago's most iconic movie anniversaries. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of...
If you thought Season 1 of Chicago-shot Deli Boys was unhinged, the cast says Season 2 somehow gets even wilder. “I would say it’s more of everything,” star Asif Ali told...
