Location: Illinois

Terrain Exhibitions organizes hundreds of artworks in front yards around the world.

Amid a “loneliness epidemic,” Crema Shop has become a hub of creative community life on Chicago’s north side.

At this year’s day-long Sonido Fest, artists performed indie, alternative, electronic and contemporary music at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

A writer, historian, and an artist from the Midwest are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows. They will each receive an $800,000 grant, with no strings attached.

The New Soul Food Movement satisfies the palates of a generation that prefers lighter, more elevated preparations, yet still enjoys soul food’s classic flavor profiles.

For one night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Refugee Coalition turned inspirational immigrant stories into a musical journey to bring awareness of the current migrant crisis.

Art has taken off at airports across the region. Today, there’s an exciting world of creativity to discover at our ports of aerial entry.

In Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois, explore three different stories of the Black experience in America.

Along with the band director’s fearless advocacy, the community started a nonprofit, which helped explore grants and sought creative ways to save the music. 

With less than 10% of theaters in the country showing analog film prints, these Midwestern theaters are among the few keeping the art alive.