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Jonathan Muecke
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Volume
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
André Petty & Scott Mossman: Faces and Forms
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Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St #2R, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, October 15th
Intersections – 3 Generations
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Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
On view through Sunday, October 31st
Mara Baker: Remnant: New Monotypes
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620 Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, October 22nd
Christopher Smith: No Return
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Jacob Hashimoto: Misunderstandings
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Friday, October 22nd
RAISIN
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6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Public Talk: North Caroline Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 17th, at 6PM
Soumya Netrabile: Open Your Mouth and Taste the Spores
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Andrew Rafacz
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 30th
The Available City
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Chicago Architecture Biennial
Various Locations
On view through Saturday, December 18th
Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Questions)
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Chicago Riverwalk
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 17th, at 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, November 25th
Joe Fournier: Our Larger Than Life Political Scene
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The Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 5th
Winds of Change
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gallery 1871
1871 N Clybourn St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, November 19th
LEA LUND & ERIK K: Nomads
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Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 0622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 4th
rock, paper, scissors
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ADDS Donna
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Marcelo Eli Sarmiento: De Sangre De Tierra y De Oro
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
Take My Hand, Feel Your Fantasy Slip Away
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9AM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Inflorescence
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
A La Française: The French Way
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Springboard Arts Chicago
1910 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
LOCUS: VIII – a gallery show ft. visual + literary artist pairings
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 26th
Open
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Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Friday, November 5th
Rine Boyer: What Just Happened
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St. Studio 307, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Virtual Poetry Reading: Susan Nguyen with Roy G. Guzmán & Jenny Qi
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, at 7PM
Pooja Pittie: Nothing Gold Can Stay
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McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Paul Natkin: Wall of Blues
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Friday, December 10th
RAISIN: Community Conversation: Diasporic Theater & The Power of Black Narratives
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6018North
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, at 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 19th
Art After Work: Hiroyuki Doi
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 5PM - 6PM
Natural History
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HF Johnson Gallery of Art
2001 Alford Park Dr, Kenosha, WI 53140
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 330PM - 630PM
On view through Friday, October 15th
Whose Lakefront Information Workshop
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Whose Lakefront
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Mid-Month Encouragement Speaker Series: Jyreika Guest
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, September 16th
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 3PM
Tatsuya Nakatani: Solo + Duos w/ Cristal Sabbagh, Norman Long, Molly Jones
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Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 8:30PM
Concerned Black Image Makers in Conversation with Bernard Lumpkin
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Gallery 400
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Mary Fedorowski: CLOSER
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School of the Arts Gallery
3415 Broadway Ave, Gary, IN 46408
Opening Wednesday, September 15th, at 1:30PM
On view through Friday, October 8th
Chiyuma Elliott and Michael Collier: Blue in Green and The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 4PM
Making Space: Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health
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LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 14th
Slow Living while Black : A virtual Panel Discussion
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Woman Made Gallery
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
interference// Presents: Machines of Loving Grace
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Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, at 8PM
Open Door Reading Series Online: Julietta Cheung, Hereaclitus Vernon, Joshua Demaree & Rachel Herman
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Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
william cordova: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, September 14th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
table of co.: within / without
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Space p11
55 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Domesticity and Photography Critique Group
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LATITUDE
Online
Opening Monday, September 13th, at 6:30PM
On view through Tuesday, November 2nd
September Intro to Printing Workshop
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LATITUDE
Online
Opening Monday, September 13th, at 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, September 15th
Tender to the Bone
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Smashing into my heart
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Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 7th
Coded: Coated
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3:30PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Shir Ende and Lancer Livermont: Proposals and Speculations
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Dirk Fletcher: Porcelain Utopia: Mid-Century Lustron homes in Illinois and Beyond
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Riverside Town Hall
7 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 31st
Meet the Artists: Susan Knight & Sandra Leonard
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
José Villalobos: The Measure of a Cock
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave. Suite 220 Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 24th
David Heo: Presence
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 2nd
Susan Knight: Linked
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, October 10th
Gary Justis: Electric Dreams
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Ken Saunders Gallery
2041 W Carroll Ave., Suite C-320, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 17th
Elastro: JG Thirlwell Presents ‘Silver Mantis’
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Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, September 11th, at 9PM
Oakbrook Art Festival
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Oakbrook Center
100 Oakbrook Ctr, Oak Brook, IL 60523
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
The Great Pause
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 4PM - 12AM
Art as Activism: Shahidul Alam in conversation with Morten Krogvold
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CASE Art Fund
Onine
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 10AM - 11AM
Playing
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, September 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
D. Rosen & Vanessa Viruet: Class & Classification
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Claude Viallat
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Document
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, October 30th
DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD: New Sculptures
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
Pugs Atomz: Mookie on the Southside
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Connect Gallery
1520 E Harper Ct, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 22nd
IMAGINING FUTURES: ARC Members’ Show
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Bruno Surdo: Realities
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Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 29th
Nancy Fritz
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Susan Rothenberg: On Both Sides of My Line, 1974-1979
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 9th
Stanley Dean Edwards: An Abstract Universe
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 2nd
Autumn Colors
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Vale Craft Gallery
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
GO FIGURE! A Survey of Figurative Art
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Carl Hammer Gallery
740 N Wells St. Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8M
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Julia Katz
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Reframing Comunidad, The Art of Ester Hernandez and Shizu Saldamando
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 30th
Día de Muertos – A Time to Grieve & Remember
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 30th
Douglas R. Ewart
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Alonso Galue: All The Brokenhearted People
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Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Tyler Macko: Weavers Home
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HG
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 10th
This is what we know so far
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Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Wherever You Are: a night of music with Cora Rose & guests
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Making Art Wherever You Are: a workshop on the business of murals + travel
@
The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
6th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
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River North Design District
Jean Alexander Frater: Reform
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Aspect/Ratio Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 30th
Chicago Avant-Garde
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, December 30th
Keeping in Touch: Garden Party Fundraiser
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
Malgorzata Markiewicz: Medusa: Sensing with and Thinking with the World
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Triangle
42 East Ave, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
Virtual Author Reading: SKINSHIP by Yoon Choi
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, September 9th, at 7PM
American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 20th
Learned Objects: Studio Works by William Estrada, Regin Igloria, Nicole Marroquin, and Rochele Royster
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Dirk Fletcher: Porcelain Utopia: Mid-Century Lustron homes in Illinois and Beyond
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Riverside Arts Center, Riverside Town Hall Gallery
27 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546
On view through Friday, December 31st
Wherever You Are: a community open house with Art We There Yet
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The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 12th
Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Neon and Light Museum
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Neon and Light Museum
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Sunday, October 31st
Yannis Tsarouchis and his Contemporaries: Body, Building, and Landscape: Concluding Program
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Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 11am - 12:30PM
Virtual Poetry Reading: Boomerang / Bumerán by Achy Obejas in conversation with Natalie Moore
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Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, at 7PM
Krista Franklin
@
Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 601317
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 11AM - 12PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@
Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Open Mic Night
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 7:30 - 11
On view through Wednesday, September 8th
Lan Tuazon: Future Fossils: SUM
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, November 13th
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