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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Tribute to Takashi Murakami
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Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Monday, June 19th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Writer Circle
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, June 19th, from 10AM - 12PM
Lou Mallozzi
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60660
Opening Monday, June 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Frank Pollard: Blasphemous Rumors
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Framing Mode and Gallery
1526 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, June 18th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Jayna Zweiman: Welcome Blanket
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, December 17th
Dreamlives of Debris
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Sunday, June 18th, from 3PM - 5PM
Here, Here
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 23rd
Symposium: Why is Graffiti
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 1PM - 8PM
Peter Fleps: Providers: Relative Worth; Provisional Values
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WEDGE
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 29th
Sew + Eye Meditation Workshop
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MaiTri Chicago
2412 W. North Ave. 3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
An Evening at Pekin Theatre
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Northwest Corner of 27th St and South State Street
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 7PM - 11PM
Marginal Green
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Goldfinch
319 N. Albany, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 3PM - 6PM
Movies in the Park: The Queen of Katwe
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Gold Coast Art Fair at Grant Park
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Grant Park Butler Field
350 E Monroe St, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 10AM - 5PM
Amanda Williams
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 1PM - 2PM
Yellow Tulips
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Efrain Lopez Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
Marcelo Eli: Earthquake Closing
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, Illinois 60653
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
Where we have been, before we go
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, 60622
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 5th
A i r tight
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Silent Funny
4106 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 7th
Tribute to Katherine Dunham
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Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 12:15PM - 1:15PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
Tracings
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Public Access
3306 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 7th
Another Campo Marzio
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The Night Gallery
3149 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 8:30PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, July 20th
OPEN 2.0
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Slate Arts + Performance
3203 W North Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
Teresa Getty: Reminders of memories I have never had
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Thomas Masters Gallery
245 W North Ave, Chicago, IL60610
On view through Sunday, July 16th
Rashayla Marie Brown Presents Brianna McIntyre: Doing the Most
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 5PM - 5:45PM
Solace
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Tall Grass Arts Association
367 Artists Walk, Park Forest, Illinois 60466
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 22nd
Matheus Goulart: 5X5 Resident Artist
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Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Rodrigo De La Sierra: TIMOTEO AND HIS WORLD
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 11th
Art in the Time of Plagiarism
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DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Broken HeART Show
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Peanut Gallery
902 N. California ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 23rd
RubberOCement GeorgieSchaefer JasonSoliday Vertonen MephitickOoz
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TRITRIANGLE
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
West Side Arts: Rootwork, Girl Bands, & Activating Public Archives
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Jane Addams Hull House Museum
800 S Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Architect Talk: Weiss/Manfredi on Urban Transformation
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Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Public Newsroom #18: Timuel Black on the Art of Oral History
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Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637-2912
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Black Radical Imagination
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Make your art happen
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 9AM - 11:58PM
Where Future Unfolds
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
2017 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 17th
Build Your Own Scroll
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American Writers Museum
180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
Oscar Arriola: Drawn In
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
Dr. Nora A. Taylor
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 15th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Women in Editorial Photography
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Columbia College - Ferguson Auditorium
600 S Michigan ave Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, June 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Ace of Cups I
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 14th, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
Visual Repertoire for Video Artists: Projects
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Wednesday, June 14th, from 5PM - 6PM
Pedagogy on the Inside
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL60607
Opening Wednesday, June 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
MCA Talk: ASL Tour of Takashi Murakami
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
MAS Context presents: Lecture by Killian Doherty
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Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Tuesday, June 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
A Cosmetic Decision
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Publishing Prints: Artist in Dialog
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, June 12th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Option: Damon Locks
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, June 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, June 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
I Am Conscious, I Am Love: Declaring Our Presence
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Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 16th
Songs and Stories: Folktales and Fun with Shanta
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BING Reading Room
307 E Garfield Blvd., Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 2PM - 3PM
Exotic Film Screening with SWOP Chicago
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 2PM - 4PM
Curator Tour: Classicisms
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 2PM - 3PM
There’s A Crack in Everything
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A Shot of Art at Perkolator
6032 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
On view through Sunday, July 16th
Holy Trinity Goes to Church
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 12PM - 4PM
Anna Fredrick: To Do
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Box Gallery hosted by Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave., Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Sunday, June 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
The Earth Will Not Abide Closing Reception
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
LATITUDE Chicago 5th Anniversary Fundraiser
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 6 - 10
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Storytelling with Viktor Le. Givens
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DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Hausu (aka House) in 35mm
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Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 11:59PM - 2AM
Lucky Pierre: the old is dying and the new cannot be born
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Friday, June 30th
John Dodge: Off Normal
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boundary
2334 W. 111th Place
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
Old Town Art Fair
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Old Town
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60614
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Wells Street Art Festival
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Special Events Management
North and Wells
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 10AM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Baseline 2017: Argyle is Alive
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Axis Lab
1120 W Argyle Street
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 5PM - 10PM
CAKE 2017
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Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Teacher Fellowship Program Student Exhibition
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Tuesday, July 4th
Taking Sides
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street, Madison, WI 53703
Opening Saturday, June 10th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, October 15th
Self Mode
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Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 1st
Taking Shape
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Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, June 29th
AMFM Presents The Jazz Series Anniversary Show
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Subterranean
2011 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 8PM - 1am
Alexandra Antione: Diaspora/Dyaspora: Haiti to Chicago and Back Again (A Migration Story)
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Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 23rd
The Petty Biennial Film Program
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
Sophie Friedman-Pappas and Rachel Hayden: Revenge Body
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ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
arttoo: an exhibition
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan St. Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Sade Edwards: Love Letters
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Everybody's Coffee
935 W. Wilson, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, July 10th
Zdzislaw Beksinski: A Tale Told by Shadows
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Polish Museum of America
984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, September 5th
Gregory Bae in Conversation with Ruslana Lichtzier
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The Mission
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 5PM - 6PM
Forever? / Unfurnished / Sketch Organs
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DEMO Project
732 N 4th St, Springfield, Illinois 62702
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Central Street Art Walk
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Central Street, Evanston
Evanston, Illinois
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Waste Not, Want Not!
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NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery
5500 N Saint Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
Gina Hunt: Transmitters
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 15th
ROHO Garcia: Twisted Colors; The Repertoire
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WH Gallery on Cottage
6144 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
Joel Ross: But I Made These for You: True Stories and Other Objects
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Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 12th
Lecture: Kevin Nute on Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Frank Lloyd Wright: Looking Forward, Thinking Back
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Public Newsroom #20: Reimagining the Industrial West Side
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Inspiration Kitchens
3504 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Toyoharu Kii: New Frontier
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Pagoda Red
400 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL60642
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 28th
Isadora Kosofsky: Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family
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Art Works Projects
625 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, June 8th, from 6:25PM - 8:30PM
Derrick Adams: Future People
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S. Stony Island Ave. Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Monday, September 18th
Cantering Loop
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Ballroom Projects
3012 S Archer Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, July 31st
The POWER Project: Stranded by the State
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 8PM - 10PM
Curator’s Tour: A Matter of Conscience
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
NU DOCS
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 9th
Marshall Svendsen Sculpture
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The Cliff Dwellers
200 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Wednesday, June 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, July 12th
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 24th
Mark Pascale: Along the Lines
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, June 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
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