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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Spirit of the Waves: Performance (for Albert)
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Mary Curtis Ratcliff
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Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, at 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Fan Films Before YouTube
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 8PM - 10PM
Nelly Agassi: Performance (for Albert)
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Where Are You From?
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The Gallery Cabaret
2020 N Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 7PM - 9PM
Arts + Public Life Performance Residency Information Session
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Darrel J. Mcleod in conversation with Terese Marie Mailhot
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Women & Children First
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 7PM - 8:30PM
MotherArt Revisited: Interruptions
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave , 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, July 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
MotherArt Revisited: Interruptions: Closing Reception and Performance
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, July 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
CHILL at the MCA: Meditation for Viewing
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 30th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Perceptual Remapping
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West Pullman Park
401 W 123rd St, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Tuesday, July 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
mid-year: Accountability & Goal Setting
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, July 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Feminist Science Fiction Show and Tell
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, July 30th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Eli Wallace with Beth McDonald
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, July 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
Sinema Obscura Series2 on CAN TV
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CAN TV
CAN TV
Opening Monday, July 29th, from 11PM - 12AM
The Hunting Accident: First Chapter
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IU Northwest School of the Arts
3400 Broadway, Gary, IN 46408
Opening Monday, July 29th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, October 4th
Puppets in Progress
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, July 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
Art Is Bonfire (Last Sundays)
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Promontory Point
5491 S Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, July 28th, at 7PM
Tarot Reader Meet-up
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
Florasonic: C. Lavender performance at Lincoln Park Conservatory
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Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
SO BROKE HOUSE | CHICAGO
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EXTRA Projects
3551 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
American Life
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Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 606022
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
Tony Lipka
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A Shot of Art at Perkolator
6032 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
Michael K. Paxton and Robert Cohen in conversation: Raw Reckoning
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Book Club: 1 Year Anniversary Event
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Pilsen Outpost
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
David Gista: Plastic River
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
Radical Pedagogies
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
South Side Story Time: Everyone is Welcome Here
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 10AM - 11AM
Discussion with Juan Molina Hernández
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
This is Not My America
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
Amazons + Lory
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 8PM - 11:59PM
Considering Romance II
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bedsheet cinema
1914 N Spaulding Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 7:30PM - 11:59PM
Hull-House Summer of Theater: Lily Be
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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Nate Braunfeld: Colder Colder
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North Pole Exhibitions
1600 W Sherwin Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 2PM - 6PM
Comfort Society: The Chicago Historic Resources Survey
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 1PM - 2PM
Wxmbspace Craft Circles
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 12PM - 7PM
Future People Fundraising Party
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
Within/Against: Youth and Institutions
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
Talk: On Style and Democratic Design with NO SESSO and Universal Standard
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 4PM - 5PM
Wabash Arts Corridor Tour
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Columbia College Chicago
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Fourth Annual Chicago Poetry Block Party
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 3PM - 8PM
BANTU FEST 2019
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Midway Plaisance, Chicago (in Hyde Park, by the University of Chicago)
1130 Midway Plaissance, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 10AM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
LA&M Kinky Rummage Sale
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 9AM - 11AM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Bake Sale
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Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California Ave, Walton Entrance, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
Compound Yellow YART SALE!
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 9AM - 8PM
Second Annual Back Alley Jazz
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7300 Block of S Paxton Ave
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 8PM
Land Justice Workshop – Family Action Day!
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First Nations Garden
Wilson and Pulaski, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
Haejin Lee: Halftone Projects Release Party
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Halftone Projects
2523 N Fairfield Ave, Apt 1, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
The Annals of Hell
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Zakaib
3491 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
Lavender Suarez: Transcendent Waves – An electro-acoustic sound bath
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 2PM
Cheryl Pope and Brittney Leeanne Williams: Artist Talk
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moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Artists’ Talk Led by Hamza Walker for “An Archive of Touch”
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, August 3rd
Justin Duerr
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, January 12th
Project Onward Pet Portrait Slam
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Bucktown Pub
1658 W Cortland St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 2PM - 6PM
Mixed Media Magic with Mystele
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The Collage Cafe
1129 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 5PM
SSW Workshop: Community Engagement in Reporting
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Bessie Coleman Library
731 E 63rd St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
Blood Lines: Commemorating the 1919 Race Riots
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Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park and Lutheran Campus Ministry
5500 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Karah Lain and Brittany Walston: Make/Shift and Megan Finch: Rock songs for (Susan)
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Three Seeds Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 10th
This is Hell! Fourth Annual Twentieth Anniversary Party/Art Show
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Cary's Lounge
2251 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 3PM - 3AM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
wndr After Dark: wndr x Young Chicago Authors
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wndr museum
1130 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
The Annals of Hell
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Zakaib
3491 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
FLOAT
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31st Street Beach
3100 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 3PM - 5PM
The Storyteller of the Future says Listen to Bright Sweet Anger
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ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Parole Illinois Art Auction Gathering
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Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Chicago Graffiti Collection Trunk Show
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Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 7PM
Intro to DIY Screen-Printing Workshop
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PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 3PM
TCC Closing Sale ! ! !
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TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Conversations in Community
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, August 18th
Art Battle Chicago
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Lagunitas Chicago TapRoom & Beer Sanctuary
2607 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
Chicago Black Social Culture Map: House & Latinx Stories
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 12PM - 5PM
Naturally Lit
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Per.so.na. Chicago Ultra Lounge
408 S Wells St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 2PM - 7PM
Ernest M. Whiteman III: Interruptions
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Chicago Cultural Center, Learning Lab
78 E Washington St Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo: The Storyteller of the Future says “LISTEN TO BRIGHT SWEET ANGER”
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chloe Patricia: Death Fantasy
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Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Esther Charbit: Eclecticity
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Sarah Barnhart Fields
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Soundtrack: CQQCHiFRUIT Dentata (Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero)
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jeffrey Forsythe: Born Into This
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Night Light Gallery and Studios
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 26th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Olive Ouyang + Nathaniel Gillette: To The Lighthouse
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The Night Gallery
Future Firm, 3149 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 8.15PM - 10.15PM
On view through Thursday, August 15th
Maura Segal: Linear Motion
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Matthew Rachman Gallery
1659 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 8th
Kompa Soiree
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The Haitian American Museum of Chicago
4654 N Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Arts of Life Summer Studio Sale
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Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, August 23rd
Parole Illinois Art Auction
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Andersonville Galleria
5247 N Clark, Chicago, Il 60640
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 11AM - 11:59AM
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Photos at Noon: Recent Acquisitions
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 12PM - 1PM
Postcommodity
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 3PM - 4PM
ONE WALL: Ava Grey & Czr Prz
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Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 6th
Identically Different: Pieces of Us II
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C33 Gallery in Chicago
33 East Ida B. Wells Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, September 23rd
Amid Kinship
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 30th
Gag Rules
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Dovetail Studios
2853 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Casey Sills: Querencia
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ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep (With Director Q&A)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
OakOak
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Line Dot
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Lectura de Libro con Laura Esquivel
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Plant Show: Closing Reception + BBQ Party
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Ground Level Platform
2001 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 26th
Lenin Delsol Student Show
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Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
1012 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, July 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
The Modern Art of Tarot
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, July 25th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
A Door Closed: The Unknown Story of America’s Failed ‘Kindertransport’
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Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Drive Skokie, IL 6007
Opening Thursday, July 25th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Diane Simpson: Architecture in Motion
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, July 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Richard Roe: A Reading with Tyler Coburn
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Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, July 25th, from 7 PM - 8PM
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