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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
September 2023
David Hauptschein: Selves Portrait: Self-Portraits
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Fournier/Walker Duo Jazz and Animation Performance
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Riverside Arts Center at the Riverside Town Hall
27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 29th
Impromptu Fest 2023
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 15th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 16th
Taylor Ana Valdez: In The Palm of Her Hands
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A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Second Sun
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Backspace Gallery
Jack Arends Hall, School of Art and Design, Northern Illinois University, 330 Gilbert Dr, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Matt Irie: Some of All
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Audrey Gallacher: Wonder Room
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Bouncy House
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Bridgeport Art Center, Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 3rd
Performance Lecture: Galina Shevchenko
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60610
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Jonathan Franklin: Portraits and Patterns/Dissonance and Symmetry
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 15th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Jared Betts and Sheri Rush: Situations of Liminality and Transformation
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 15th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Cydney M. Lewis: Beauty Amongst Darkness
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
On Performing Nature, Performing Culture
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SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Amy Bruni: Life with the Afterlife
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Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts
201 Schaumburg Ct, Schaumburg, IL 60193
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
ornament IS – Arguments On Ornament in Design
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The Bridgeport Art Center, Fourth Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 3rd
Jordan Brown & Janiece Maddox: Sweet, Crazy Conversations
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Amalgam presents Carol Genetti & Peter Maunu Duo //&// Katinka Kleijn
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Elastic Aural Mexico City x Chicago Exchange: Night 1 – A Night of New Configurations and Improvisations
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 14th, at 8:30PM
Signals & Pixels – Art/Tech Meetup
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Redux: An Examination of Practice, Process and Transformation
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Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 11th
Future’s Future by Rae Red – One Night Event!
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Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
ART on THE MART Fall Program Premiere – Fifth Anniversary Celebration
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THE MART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, November 15th
Open Doors: Harriet Monroe Editors Panel
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Not Just Another Pretty Face
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 5th
MEX talks
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Harris Theater
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 14th, at 6:30PM
Artini at Gallery Guichard
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Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts: Interior Lives
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Wu Yué: I’m Not Back I’m Better
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ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Opening Reception: Taiwan Room
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
Anna Kunz: ROSY
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McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 27th
The Moment Before a workshop with Taylor Dalton
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Awakenings Art
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
Shaun Crawford: This That and the Third
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ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
FACETS Anime Club: DEVILMAN OVAs ’87-’90
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FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Luke Agada: Arms, Feet, and Fitful Dreams
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Sanford Biggers: Back to the Stars
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Invisible Labor in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Neubauer Collegium
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Saturday, September 16th
No Martins: Encontros Políticos (Political Encounters)…Part 2
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Comfort Film Presents: Ex Disposer (2019)
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 13th, from 8PM - 10PM
Lecture in Photography: Jess T. Dugan
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, September 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Jeffly Gabriela Molina: How One Becomes What One Is?: Artist Talk & Closing Reception
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McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Wednesday, September 13th, at 2:30PM
On view through Friday, September 15th
Peoria Guild of Black Artists II
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Heuser Gallery
1400 W Bradley Ave, Peoria, IL 61625
Opening Wednesday, September 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 6th
Jesse Howard: America Unrest Sole: Reception
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Harold Washington College President's Gallery
30 E Lake St, Chicago IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, September 13th, from 10AM - 12PM
On view through Tuesday, September 26th
Pleiades Series: Beth McDonald (solo), Ro(b) Lundberg / Riley Leitch / Beth McDonald trio
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 12th, at 8PM
Sacred Harp
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Holly Holmes: Resonant Spaces
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Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, storefront, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, September 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, October 3rd
Guadalupe Maravilla Lecture
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Fullerton Hall, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, September 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Michael K Paxton: Interpolated
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Western Illinois Univesity Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, September 12th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, October 19th
Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth
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SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St. Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, September 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 2nd
Danny Floyd: Who Did the Job? Who Dealt the Blow? Closing
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free range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, September 20th
Whitney Johnson and Hannah Songer: kind in the right stomach
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Project 1612
813 E Jefferson St, Morton, IL 61550
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 10th
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
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FlexSpace: Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Michelle Wasson: Aurea Nova
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Screening + Panel. All Watched Over, Utopian Desire & the Computational Imaginary
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2328 N Milwaukee, top floor
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 10th, at 6:30PM
Underground Art Market
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Salvage One
1840 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 2PM - 8PM
Celebrating Richard Hunt
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, September 10th, at 2PM
Abbey Muza: Reciter son corps
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slow dance
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Chantal Danyluk: Against Dreamland
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Leslie Wolfe Gallery
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, October 4th
Chicago Performs | Jonas Becker: New Normal
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 2 PM - 3 PM
Stephen Kent: Kopf Kino
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Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 114, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Saturday, November 18th
Candle Making Workshop – Hiddur Mitzvah: Collaging the Senses
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 12PM - 2PM
Talk | Chicago Performs Artists
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Oriana
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Mae Lombardi
342 Park Ave, Glencoe, IL 60022
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Taylor Augustine & Kay Hofmann: Oriana
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Mae Lombardi
342 Park Ave, Glencoe, IL 60022
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 11am - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
ARC Members’: 50th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Friday, October 20th
Carris Adams: Signs All Kinds
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, September 10th, at 12PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Scott Wolniak: Crosscurrents
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Hartmut Austen: WAS IST
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Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Saturday, November 18th
eXu-9, Hedra Rowan, Gordon Fung, Being Melted
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 9th, at 8PM
Weinberg/Newton Gallery Closing Party
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
Kaveri Raina: Songs of silence, yet bluebirds hum
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PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Cameron Spratley: Violets and Daisies
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 29th
Exhibit B @ Printers’ Row Lit Fest
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Printers Row
731 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, September 9th, at 4PM
Chicago Performs | Irene Hsiao: Blue Alice
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Deborah Lader: The Air & Water Show: Artist Reception
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Karen Noble: Intuitive Abstract Painting
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Galesburg Community Arts Center
349 E Main St, Galesburg, IL 61401
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 10:30AM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, January 13th
Big Picture Peoria Street Festival
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Peoria’s Warehouse District
1300 Block SW Adams, Peoria, IL
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 10AM - 4PM
Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa
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Devonshire Cultural Center
4400 Greenwood St, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 2PM - 4PM
Figurative Painting Show
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Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicgo, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
María Burundarena: Volverse Imagen- Becoming Retina
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, October 6th
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features (Virtual)
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The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 2PM - 3PM
Seasons Creep Under a Shading Tree
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
On view through Sunday, January 7th
Oral Fixation Art Podcast
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Oral Fixation Art Podcast
Online
On view through Friday, September 8th
Lakeview East Festival of the Arts
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Lakeview East Festival of the Arts
3251 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 10th
Renegade Chicago
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Renegade Craft
Division St. between Damen Ave. + Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 10th
2023 Annual Arts of Life Studio Sale
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Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 11AM - 4PM
Printers Row Literary Festival
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Printers Row
620 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 10th
Harris Fest: Music + Dance in the Park
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Millenium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 10AM - 9PM
Shades of Blue : All Building Open House Event
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South Asia Institute
1925 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 2PM - 6PM
Picasso: Fifty Years Later
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
On view through Sunday, January 7th
Sew Far Sew Good Embroidery Workshop with Artist Danielle Clough
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21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 11AM - 6PM
Danny J Martinez: Leopard Brains
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Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 9th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
My Best Friend is Black
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
CLEAT Series: Devon Rodlund, Anna Chaurize
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, at 8PM
Paul Brourman: You Wear It Well
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Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
A Night Under The Stars: Closing Reception
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Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Peace Has No Home: Posters for Ukraine
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Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, November 18th
Bassim Al-Shaker: Four Minutes
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Justin Witte: Other Arrangements
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Mercurial Lake
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 3rd
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