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Chicago Open Archives: MCA Chicago Library and Archives
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 3PM - 4PM
Preetika Rajgariah & Zuri Washington: An Undoing
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 10th
Alexandra Haas: Efflorescence
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Rubberneck
2058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
Lee Blalock and Mocrep: Stereo Test Program No. 3
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Unity Lutheran Church
1212 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 8PM - 9PM
Joe Tallarico: Passing Glances
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Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On view through Saturday, November 17th
Re:Working Labor
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 9AM - 4:30PM
House of the Apocalypse Opening
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House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
Kevin Coval & Langston Allston: Milwaukee Ave Chapbook Release
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Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Contemporary Ukrainian Graphics
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 9th
Pan-African Festival of Algiers
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Block Building
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Saturday, December 8th
Penny Lane: The Pain of Others
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kayla Mahaffey: Cherish The Days
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 3rd
Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture
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Wrightwood 659
659 W. Wrightwood Avenue, CHicago
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 10AM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 15th
The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 21st
In Conversation: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Christa Clarke and Constantine Petridis
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Chicago Art: Expanded, Encouraged, Explored
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
John Santoro: Perpetual Change
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 7th
Phases of Matter
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 7th
From Relic to Replica
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Morton Auditorium
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 6060
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 12PM - 1PM
Applied Words: Magnitude and Bond
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Artists’ Atlas: Mapping Their Journey
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State Street Gallery
401 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, December 20th
Echoes: Reframing Collage
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 21st
Public Newsroom 82: Let’s Take a Soundwalk Around Woodlawn
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Charged Spaces/Changing Bodies
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Pivot Arts
5252 N Broadway St, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, October 11th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 14th
Matthew Thurber: Art Comic
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 11th
Stephen Varble: Journey to the Sun
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Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chicago Open Archives: Selections from the Randolph Street Gallery Archives
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John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Break a Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and Teaching
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, December 9th
J e l l o: Seventeen
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
The Stoop and Pilsen Outpost Storytelling Workshops
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Pilsen Outpost
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Live Art: Everyday Inspiration with LOGIK
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Apple Michigan Avenue
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
An Introduction to Disability Justice and Allyship: Infusing Accessibility into your Art, Cultural, and Activist Spaces
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Keiler Roberts: Chlorine Gardens and Jessica Campbell: XTC69
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Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, October 10th
Joanna Warsza
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SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
Filmmaker Talk: LaurynBlythe
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boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago IL 60643
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 3rd
Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore: Comics That Interrupt
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 8PM - 11PM
Confessions of a Public Artist
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Jane Addams Hull-House
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7:30
Dani and Sheilah ReStack
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
In Progress: Shawné Michaelain Holloway
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Enrico David: Curator Tour
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, at 12PM
Portraits of Pollen Grains: Pollen Art and Science from 1682
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 S Wabash Ave, Room 327, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
The Humanistic Designs of Annabelle Selldorf
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Chicago Architecture Center
111 E Upper Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Alexandra Lange
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LeRoy Neiman Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 S Wabash Ave, First Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Genuflect
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Saint Vincent De Paul Catholic Parish Church
1010 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Monday, October 8th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Film Screening and Discussion
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McCormick Foundation Center
1870 Campus Dr Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sumakshi Singh
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Field/Chicago Fall 2018 Fieldwork!
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Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 3PM - 5PM
Afrofuturism Symposium Day 1
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Oriental Institute
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 1PM - 3PM
Cornbread, Earl & Me
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Studio Movie Grill
210 W 87th St, Chicago, IL 60620
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 2:30PM - 5PM
Kelly Neibert and Zhiyun Yang: LIVING WITH THE NON-HUMAN
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Gallery KIN
6319 N Greenview Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Monday, October 22nd
Sheri Smith
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Ken Hirte Gallery
760 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Rare Books Conservation Workshop
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, October 7th, from 10PM - 4PM
Dialogo Dialogo
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Dialogo sculpture, Albert Pick Hall for International Studies, University of Chicago
5828 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, December 14th
Artist’s Talk with Indira Freitas Johnson, Garland Martin Taylor and Lise McKean
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 6th
Chi Nwosu: What some people read as sadness
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 13th
2018 Young Feminist Conference
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Chicago Teachers Union Center
1901 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 9AM - 2PM
MASTURBATING TO THE SOUND OF MUSIC
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THE CONDO ASSOCIATION
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, November 6th
Bridge Lift Breakfasts
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McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
376 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, October 6th, at 9AM
Neighborhood Soundwalk with Norman Long
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Diego Kahlo & Darryll Schiff
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Rubberneck
2058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 10 AM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 6th
Sarah Reynolds and Fuyumi Murata: Unstable
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Comfort Station Logan
2579 Logan Blvd, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, October 30th
Wabi Sabi Indigo Tenugui
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Japanese Culture Center
1610 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 1 - 4
Chicago’s Gold Coast Patronage and the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 13th
Indira Freitas Johnson and Garland Martin Taylor
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Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 6th
Up Is Down: Opening Day Conversation with Author Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 9th
Michele Stutts: Anomalous
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 27th
Jason DeBose: Presidential: Public Depictions Overseas of U.S. Leadership
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 27th
Lee Stanton: Gimmer
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 27th
First Fridays at Robey Hall and Flat Iron Studios
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2018 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 and 1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 11PM
Salute
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Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 26th
Like a Villain
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R A W Space
East of Morgan at W 33rd Place, Chicago, Illinois
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
Palor Room Presents: Ornella Fieres
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Parlor Room
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 12:15 PM - 12:50 PM
On view through Friday, October 5th
Leila Abdelrazaq: Justice & Return
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Rockford University Art Gallery
5050 E State St, Rockford, IL 61108
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
Hans Haacke
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 3PM - 4PM
Pilsen Community Books First Annual Fair
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 5th, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 7th
Three Hares
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 25th
Emilio Rojas: The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s Monuments
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 25th
Sambizanga
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Walkout! 1968 and 2018 School Walkouts
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Leah Shirley: Free Bleed
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Genesis
720 N Milwaukee St, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 5PM - 9PM
Kusama: Infinity
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 2PM - 8:15PM
On view through Thursday, October 18th
Variable Views
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Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 10th
Elaine Hsu: Earth Is So Much More Wonderful Than Heaven
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gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Room 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Friday, October 26th
Sketch Walks: Story Arcs with Langston Allston & Kevin Coval
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Apple Michigan Avenue
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
October Art Show
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Rogers Park Art Gallery
6902 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Zach Barnard: Behind the Purple Door
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave. Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, October 7th
A Landscape Madeup
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 25th
HEllBound
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Sideshow Gallery
2219 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, November 2nd
THE COLLECTION
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Fashion Outlets of Chicago
5220 Fashion Outlets Way, Rosemont, IL 60018
Opening Friday, October 5th, from 7:30 PM - 10 PM
On view through Friday, October 5th
Interlocking: Models and Proposals by Virginio Ferrari
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Corvus Gallery, Gordon Parks Arts Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory School
5815 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 16th
Keeping Black Girls at the Center of #MeToo: A Town Hall with Tarana Burke
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School of Art Institute of Chicago, Maclean Ballroom
112 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Public Newsroom 81: Report Launch—Youth Voices on Gun Violence
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Experimental Station, Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Día de los Muertos: After Dark
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
Liner Notes with David Anthony, Liz Mason and more
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GMan Tavern
3740 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Stoop and Pilsen Outpost Storytelling Workshops
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Pilsen Outpost
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Seth Parker Woods
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 6PM - 7PM
Experimental Sound Studio 2018 Benefit Concert
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Sleeping Village
3734 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 4th, from 7:30PM - 11:59PM
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