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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
September 2023
Chris Cosnowski: Morality Play
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ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Mark Diaz / Naomi Elson / Michael Thompson
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Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
She X Three
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The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
@!#?@!: Art, Design and Sound of Q*bert
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Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 17th
By Example: Closing Reception
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W. GALLERY
600 W Van Buren St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 8th
THE OUTSIDER, In Celebration of…
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Carl Hammer Gallery
740 N Wells St. Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 16th
Vancouver, 1971: The Image Bank Postcard Show
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David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2A, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses
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Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Snapshots: Art Begetting Art
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2240 Gallery
2240 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Bruno Surdo: New Paintings
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Gallery VICTOR
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Adonis: This is How Love Arrives
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Hilton Contemporary
716 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Alicia LaChance: new paintings
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 1st
Sense of Place
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Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 1st
Alex Katz: Autumn
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Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Luis Lázaro Matos
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Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Journie Cirdain: Memento Vivere
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Lauren Wy: The Runner
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Michelle Williams: RETROSPECTIVE
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 23rd
Lee Stanton: OUT OF THE BLUE
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 23rd
Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 16th
Seeing Race Before Race: Explore the roots of race from the Middle Ages to 1800.
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 10AM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 29th
Mycelium Connection
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The Admiral at the Lake
929 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
On view through Monday, November 6th
Will Gabaldón: The stillness still doesn’t end
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Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Dan Ramirez: Vertical Thoughts
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Maria Tomasula: My Body is a Haunted Land
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Jimmy DeSana: CHICAGO | Suburban
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DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, October 28th
Judy Page Project
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Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Seeing Race Before Race
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, December 30th
Vibrant Thread Blending Workshop with Artist Danielle Clough
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21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
80th Annual Salon Show
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SOUTH SHORE CULTURAL CENTER
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 4th
Partition Anti-Memorial Project & Borders and Boundaries Redefined
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The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 23rd
In The Mist of a Great Fall: The Niagara Paintings
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
Su Friedrich: Today
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 8:30PM - 10PM
Susan Giles: Space Has Become This Material Thing
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 20th
Amalgam presents Akjai
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Paris Sojourn: Père Lachaise / Cityscapes: Artist talk with Mark Ballogg
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Johnny Wilcox
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Su Friedrich: Sink or Swim and Rules of the Road
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Life Drawing with Siren Betty Design
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salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Chicago Poet Laureate Celebration
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The Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Remaining, Mourn…
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Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall 595 College Ave, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Dialogue
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Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Altgeld Hall 595 College Ave, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, September 7th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Chicago Performs | Irene Hsiao: Blue Alice
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Our Family’s Violin Story
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Illinois State Museum-Springfield
502 S Spring St, Springfield, IL 62706
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, September 13th
Pan African Festival of Algiers
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Transvengence feat. C. Russell Price and Trinity Sapphire (+ Open Mic)
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My Buddy’s (Upstairs)
4416 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
LOVE: Still Not the Lesser
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 22nd
Life Cycles
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
On view through Sunday, February 11th
“Where we go together” or The Flashlight Play by Theatre Nobody
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, September 6th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, September 9th
Comfort Film Presents Silents Films on the Lawn: Georges Méliès shorts with a score by Trash to Kilowatts
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 6th, from 8PM - 9PM
See. Hear. Heal.: An LGBTQ+ Survivor Storytelling Night with Outspoken and Awakenings
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Awakenings Art
4001 N. Ravenswood Ave., Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, September 6th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, September 6th
Ariella Granados: Disabling Utopia
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Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Artists Live with Dorothy Burge and Michelle Daniel Jones
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, September 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 10th
OUTspoken! LGBTQ+ Storytelling
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Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, September 5th, at 7PM
Jesse Howard: Chaos in a Warm Village
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Jack Olson Gallery
330 Gilbert Dr, DeKalb, IL 60115
On view through Thursday, October 26th
Family Abolition: M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 3rd, from 7PM - 8PM
At Rest
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Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak Rd, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 3rd, from 4PM - 9PM
OPTION: Erez Dessel
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, September 3rd, from 3PM - 5PM
Ruby Que: Holding
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Bird Show
Hybrid
Opening Sunday, September 3rd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 17th
Lily Homer: Shpanyer Arbet: Shtetl Lace
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 3rd, from 12PM - 2PM
easygoingtech, jackie, dawndivision, sulffffffur, g0rb/mode hexe
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, at 8:30PM
Side Yard Sounds: Marvin Tate and Bill MacKay
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Figurative Painting Show
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Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Paul Wear: More Idols Than Realities
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1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 24th
6th Midwest Open
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 30th
Charles Joseph Smith: Rogers Park DIY
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
One Million Experiments Film: Premiere Party
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BASSLINE
2239 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 2nd, from 8PM - 12AM
Dan Friedman: Stay Radical
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, February 4th
RACHAEL BOS + KEETON FOREMAN
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SULK CHICAGO
525 S Dearborn St, Apt 209, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 6th
BEYOND BLUE: Closing Reception
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 7PM - 10PM
Petrified Wastage
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
WET
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Futurewomen – Season 2 premieres September 1st.
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Open Television (OTV)
Online
Jess Bass & Gabriel Chalfin-Piney: When Souls Stick
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 1st
Billy James Joyce: Two Trees
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Apparatus Projects @ Cellar Door Provisions
3025 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 14th
Bouquet
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 27th
Jenna Rae Summa: Bug Jar
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Raygun Andersonville
5207 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, October 1st
Oliver Coran: Oliver Coran
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Twin
http://www.twingallery.org and @twingallerylaundry
On view through Sunday, October 1st
Lucky Pierre: In the Future Something Will Have Happened
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Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 10AM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 2nd
Karsh Kale: A Special South Asia Institute Fundraiser Event
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South Asia Institute
1925 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 1PM - 7PM
Socialism 2023
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Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Monday, September 4th
Raw and Fragile: Closing Reception with Artist Talks
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ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 South Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 1st
Patchwork Glitch
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imnotArt gallery
1010 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 15th
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