Chicago friends, family and co-workers were shocked to hear of the sudden passing of actress Lindsey Pearlman last week when she was found deceased in her car near a popular Lo...
Filmmakers Clarence Simmons and Chike Ozah — better known as Coodie and Chike — have worked with Kanye West on music videos like Through the Wire, Two Words and Jesus Walks...
Editor’s Note: The Reel Black List is our annual spotlight of brothers and sisters in the worlds of advertising, film, TV, music, radio and media who are making a d...
Virtual event with Candace Parker kicks off a new CPL program series focused around social justice, equity and inclusivity
Chicago Public Library (CPL) announced the officia...
In the opening titles of James Gunn’s new The Suicide Squad spinoff Peacemaker which debuted on HBO Max last month, John Cena’s character performs a show-stopping dance num...
One Chicago is known to have one night each season when Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago P.D. all come together in a three hour epic crossover event, sharing one storylin...
Apple TV+ has released the haunting trailer for upcoming series Shining Girls, filmed in Chicago last summer, starring Elizabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Jamie Bell, and Phillipa So...
Award-winning film studio Stelo Stories and the DuSable Museum of African American History, the nation's oldest independent museum of Black history, announced the release of th...
Chicago is one of the most segregated big cities in America, and it comes at a cost. The Metropolitan Planning Council found that segregation costs the region $4.4 billion in l...
Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart makes a rich contribution to TCM for Black History Month, leading discussions about "Selma" with its star, David Oyelowo, and highlighting the w...
With statewide COVID-19 hospitalization rates declining faster than any other point in the pandemic, Illinois is on track to lift the statewide indoor mask requirement on Monda...
South Side got a thumbs up from HBO Max for a third season. The streaming service announced the renewal of the Chicago series.
The second season of the beloved, critic...
Director and self-proclaimed wearer of many hats, Kamelya Alexan won the Empowerment Award at the 2022 Midwest Film Festival’s Best of the Midwest Awards, for her short, Chan...
In storytelling, there are four P’s: people, place, purpose and plot. The South Side Short Film Series, Reel Black Filmmakers, a program of the Community Film Workshop of Chi...
COX Communications teams up with FCB Chicago and Picture North to show how technology can provide new ways of connecting.
What does a hug mean? During the COVID-19 pandemic,...
For the past few months our beloved Second City alum Bill Murray has been all over, making news and finding himself trending on social media.
From Charleston, South Carolin...
Macaulay Culkin has been part of our pop culture ever since he was 10 years old.
We were all hooked back in 1990, the moment we met the precocious Kevin McCallister (Macaul...
The wait is almost over! Premiering this Sunday, Sikora reprises his role as Tommy Egan in Power Book IV: Force, the highly-anticipated Power spin-off.
Fans of Chicago...
Geletka+, Chicago’s fast-growing creative collaboration agency located in the West Loop, today announced the addition of two new team members, developer Doug Lienen and desig...
Academy Award nominee, Emmy Award nominee and star of Empire Taraji P. Henson has joined the upcoming film adaption of The Color Purple musical as sexy and sultry jazz singer S...
