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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
MATERIALKINK
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 14th
Her Environment no. 6: Mantle II
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Hume Chicago
3242 W. Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 30th
STOM SOGO
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The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Richard Medina and LaMar Gayles: Re:Figure
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The Coach House
1311 W Cullerton St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Closing Event with Brian Holmes and Hoda Katebi
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Chicago Collaborators’ Pop-Up
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Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 6PM - 10PM
Fermin Barbosa: Nido: (Nest)
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The Frame Shop
3520 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
Lecture: Helena Almeida—Work is never finished
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 12PM - 1PM
Then They Came For Me
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Alphawood Gallery
2401 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 11AM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 19th
Gloria Groom and Harriet Stratis on Paul Gauguin
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
Bobsy Redivivus: The Lost World of Elizabeth Fuller Goodspeed
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Book Release Party for #AiWeiwei
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60605
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
ChiDM Presents: Chicago Children’s Museum
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
Art, Now. Act, Now: Know Your Rights
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Alphawood Gallery
2401 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Public Newsroom #24: How Journalists Can Use Polls
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Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Doing Justice to Gender Particularities
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Art as Protest: From Carnival to Chicago
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Zafa Salon Series
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Wedge Projects
1448 West Howard Street, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 8PM - 10PM
Then They Came For Me
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Alphawood Gallery
2401 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 31st
Riding and Striding, Reaching and Teaching: Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 12PM - 2PM
Chit Chat: Women in Music
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AMFM GALLERY
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
OPEN EYES
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OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 6PM - 11PM
Mexico and Chicago: A Century of Artistic Collaborations
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 7PM - 8PM
The POWER Project: The 39th
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 28th, from 8:30PM - 10PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: Maggie Brown
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 27th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
MCA Talk: Michael Darling on Takashi Murakami
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 27th, from 12PM - 1PM
It Was The Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times.
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
Weirdo Sounds: A Workshop for Kids
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 27th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Two Queens in a Kitchen: Preview + Potluck
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
FMK Welcomes 5×5 Resident Artist Susan Messer McBride
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Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Monday, June 26th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 1st
GeWaScHen o’GrATin
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Monday, June 26th, from 7:04 PM - 10:11 PM
¡Tiempo de historias para niños!
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, June 26th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Marquez
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Instituto Cervantes Chicago
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Monday, June 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
And Then They Came For Us
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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 Monday, June 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
MCA Talk: Johnston Marklee
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 3PM - 5PM
Melissa Blount: Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt
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Frances Willard House Museum
1730 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 4PM - 5PM
Keep In Touch
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Collabo
1930 N Fairfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 7:30PM - 10:30 PM
BringHer
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Reading Project with Judith Brotman
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60626
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 3PM - 5PM
Katrin Schnabl: ANGEL BRIGADE I & II
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 2PM - 5PM
Mariano Chavez: Deep Cuts
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 4PM - 8PM
ChiDM Presents: Openbox
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, June 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
Running Street Art Tour
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 10 AM - 1PM
All of the Above: Closing
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave., Chicago, Il 60605
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Cabs for Jean-Michel
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The Hermosa Walls
2306 N. Keeler Ave
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 1 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, July 1st
Silent Funny Open House
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Silent Funny
4106 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL60651
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 4PM - 10PM
Elizabeth Fiersten: Quotidian Shifts
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FOR THE THUNDERCLOUD GENERATION
1101 West Berwyn, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 29th
All Games
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Resistor
5053 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 630PM - 930PM
On view through Saturday, June 24th
RAW NIGHT
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THE CONDO ASSOCIATION
2700 North Avenue - Unit 206
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 9PM - 3AM
On view through Saturday, June 24th
Dannielle Tegeder and Matthew Evan Taylor: Abstraction + Sounds
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Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 1st
Curator’s Talk and Artist Social
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 1PM - 3PM
Kimono Exhibition
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Japanese Culture Center
1016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Triptych Unloose Group Discussion – aka Lab Reports
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 2PM - 3PM
Marcos Raya and Lynne Warren
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 2PM - 4PM
Artists’ Books, Zines and Printed Mayhem from Mexico
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Self-Reliance School
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 3PM - 6PM
Uphues /Cosnowski /Reninger
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Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen, Suite 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 19th
PMC presents Burroughs Brooks Sound Suite
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Washington Park
near 5300 S. Martin Luther King Dr. Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
6TH ANNUAL PRIME 8 ART LEAGUE EVENT
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House of Vans
113 N Elizabeth St., Chicago
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
WE: Mitsu Salmon and Damon Locks
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 8PM - 9PM
Kosciuszko!
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Julius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, July 16th
Don Bulucos: Piece By Piece
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Miishkooki Art Space
4517 Oakton, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Saturday, June 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, July 22nd
Sonya Bogdanova: Are You a Lover?
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Obverse Gallery
1434 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, July 13th
Orr Menirom: Clinton and Sanders Looking at the World and Naming Things for the First Time
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Aspect/Ratio
119 N Peoria #3D, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 1st
Black Light
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
On view through Saturday, August 5th
100 Canvas Fundraiser and Silent Art Auction
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The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Anna Gross and Fran Lee: Mysterious Friends
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 22nd
Of Memories and Forgetfulness
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, July 13th
Stay alive
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
Suture Blue: what
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Autotelic Studios
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 23rd, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
Black Light and Make Room
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 5th
Rodrigo Zamora, Sarah Lee, Sadie Woods
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The Mission
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
FIGURED OUT! Bodily Form in Contemporary Ceramics
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Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, #2, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Saturday, August 19th
Greg Ito: Lullaby
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Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W WASHINGTON BLVD #2, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Saturday, August 19th
Sonnenzimmer: Gaussian Blur
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N RAVENSWOOD, CHICAGO IL 60660
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, August 18th
Riff Raff Gala: A Fundraiser for Hume
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Hume Chicago
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 7:30PM - 12AM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
DANGEROUS TOGETHER
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Prairie
629 W Cermak Ave, Suite 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Bold Disobedience
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 West Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 2nd
Koren, Naselli, Vaicunas
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ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
Marc Fischer and Peter Miles Bergman: All of the Above
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Logan Square Arts Festival
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Logan Square
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
In Conversation: Assaf Evron and Third Object
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Voyages: The Artistic Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks from Poetry to Hip Hop
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Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 9:45PM
Lost Arts Talk: Strand Design
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Lost Arts
1001 N North Branch St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Excavation – History of the Site and Architecture of the NMMA
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
James Deeb, Joey Garfield, and Lynne Miller Jones
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Five & Dime
1026 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Comics That Kiss Better: CAKE and European Comics Chicago Party
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Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris: Earthseed
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Public Newsroom 23: Join City Bureau’s Documenters Team
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Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
MAS Context presents: Lecture by Darren Bradley
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Society of Architectural Historians
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Sculpture around Town: Art in the City
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Propeller Fund 2017 Information Session #1
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60626
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
A•pe•ri•od•ic (27): The music of Pauline Oliveros at Make Music
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 3PM - 4PM
MCA Talk: Touch Tour of the Sculpture Garden
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 1PM - 2PM
Stones/Water/Time/Breath
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Make Music Chicago
small public beach at the end of Sherwin Avenue
Opening Wednesday, June 21st, from 5:17 AM - 6:30AM
Organizing Principles for the Individual Artist, Part Two
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 20th, from 10AM - 2PM
Letterpress Affirmations with Flatlands and RAR RAR Press
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60605
Opening Tuesday, June 20th, from 10AM - 6PM
Elo Goodington and Kyle Riley
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 20th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
The Rear View Mirror Sessions: Chaka, The IKhan
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Tuesday, June 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Before Work
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Arts and Public Life: Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, June 19th, from 7am - 9am
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