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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
August 2016
20 x 20 Version Dark Web edition
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, August 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
Chicago Design Works: Office of Experience
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, August 30th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
Community Conversation: The Importance of Art on the South Side
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative
1456 E. 70th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, August 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Transversing The Imaginary Castration / STraversing the Imaginary Castration/SenseNot vol. 888 Fleshtival de Performance ense Not Vol. 888 – Fleshtival de Performance
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 7PM - 1 am
John Niekrasz: Rules, Tools & Fools
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 2PM - 3PM
Concerning: Gentrification
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The Hermosa Walls
2306 N. Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 12PM - 4PM
Comfort Society Presents: Live Drawing by Rachal Duggan
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 10AM - 2PM
DISLOCATION
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Roots and Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 7:30 PM - 9PM
What Is and Never Was – Closing Reception
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Parenthesis Gallery
2333 W. Ohio Street, Apt #2F, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 1st
Strictly Accessories
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Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 7PM - 11PM
Workshop: Documentation + Marketing for Pedagogical Practices
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St
Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Vers16on: You Were There.
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 7PM - 2AM
Liz Ensz Metal Text Drawings
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NIMBY
2633 N Emmett St, Chicago, IL 60647-1511, US
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Wheelhouse 2 (part 2)
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 8PM - 9PM
Women and Black Folk Art Panel
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
Women Mobilized for Change Public Performance
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Peace and Justice Monument at Lincoln Park
Chicago, Il 60613 US
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
West Ridge Nature Preserve: Soundwalking with Eric Leonardson
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West Ridge Nature Preserve
5801 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60659, US
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 10 AM - 11 AM
SummerSonic 2016: Avery R Young / Homme / Akenya / Ben LaMar Gay / Simulation / Melina Ausikaitis / LeRoy Bach: A Summer’s Guitar Sextet
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 1PM - 9PM
2016 Bucktown Arts Fest – Our 31st Year!
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Bucktown Arts Fest
2200 N Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Sunday, August 28th
Rebecca Nolan and Scott Dietrich in Conversation
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LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 27th, from 3PM - 4PM
Long View / Long Game
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Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 7:30 PM
The Industry of the Ordinary Summer School Exhibition
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
George Klauba Solo Exhibition
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National Veterans Art Museum
4041 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Reality Check: Directions in Contemporary Art since Ukrainian Independence
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 11th
Vers16n: Dark Web Opening
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 1AM
25 Things, An Exhibiton
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The Research House of Asia Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608-6609 US
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, September 2nd
Sweet Spoils
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Miishkooki
4517 Oakton, Skokie, IL 60076
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, October 1st
Symptoms: Satirical Drawings By Tom Torluemke
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 24th
Marcella Hackbardt: True Confessionals
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Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 5:30 - 7:30
On view through Friday, January 8th
The Late Summer Collection Show Coming in the Late Summer
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2042 W 21st St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 12PM
Jason Maldonado: Portraits of a Painter
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La Parada en Pilsen
2059 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
Maria Gaspar: On the Border of What is Formless and Monstrous
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Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 11th
Coppice Turning Concerts with guests
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Silent Funny
4106 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60651
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 27th
Anne Yafi: No Illusions
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Autotelic Studios
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, September 15th
Team Sports
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Samuel
1917 W Division St., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, August 29th
Social Justice
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Galerie F
2381 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL60647
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 18th
Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art
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Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 12th
Tim Kinsella for Trunk Show
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Trunk Show
California Blue Line Station, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
Kombucha Without Borders: The Motherlode
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Papermaker's Garden
8th & Wabash, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 3PM - 4PM
Flare Gun / Signal Call
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Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, September 18th
RAÚL ORTIZ: Landscape Compositions
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Harold Washington Library Center, 8th Floor Exhibition Cases
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Friday, October 28th
On the Beat Film Club Show
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60649
Opening Friday, August 26th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Paul Schranz: Entropy: Artist Lecture
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The University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Thursday, August 25th, from 1Pm - 2PM
At the River I Stand, introduced by Huey Copeland
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
E 60th St & S Drexel Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, August 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 2
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The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, August 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chelsea Culprit, Ben Foch and Raquel Ladensack
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Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, August 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
Music for “America after the Fall”: Mark Dvorak and Chris Walz
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, August 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Behind the Scenes with Cards Against Humanity
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, August 24th, from 7:30 PM - 9:30PM
New Gillie and Marc Sculptures + FAILE Prints
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, August 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
True to Form: Works from Chicago Sculpture International
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Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University
1709 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493
Opening Tuesday, August 23rd, at 23 August 2016
On view through Sunday, December 11th
Two Queens in a Kitchen: Screening and Potluck
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2557 W. North Ave
Opening Tuesday, August 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Nasty, Brutish & Short: A Puppet Cabaret
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Links Hall
3111 North Western Avenue Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, August 22nd, at 7:30PM
Jeff Parker: Option
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, August 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
DAY 5: Video! Video! Video Festival
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Video Video Zine
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, August 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
New Work by Gay Gaurd-Chamberlin
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Rev. Billy's Chop Shop
4314 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, August 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
Head Cleaner
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Lust for Life
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Laura
1535 N Ashland Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 4th
Quintessa Matranga: My Celebrity Crush
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BOYFRIENDS
3311 w. Carroll, Chicago IL, 60624
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 11th
Lion VS Gorilla: 5th Birthday Party
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 6061
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 8PM - 12am
On view through Sunday, August 21st
Word_Movement_Action
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Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Avenue
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 20th
Forging a Community Praise House: Workshop with Avery R. Young & Onam Lansana
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Dorchester Art and Housing Collaborative
1456 E. 70th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 1PM - 3PM
DAY 4: Video! Video! Video Festival Francisca Benitez
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, August 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Red, Black and Zine
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 4Pm - 7PM
Start Together
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 8th
Ethno / graphic
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 8th
Lindsey Bates: Anonymous
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Galleryna19
19 Harrison St, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 3rd
DAY 3: Video! Video! Video Festival
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Micromodern Memories: Tokyo and Chicago
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SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St., 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 4Pm - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 1st
Open Workshops: WAVER project [free]
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, August 19th
Peter J Woods
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D.A.D.S.
2515 S. Archer STE 2 Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
The Netsch Campus and Back to the Future
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Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria Street, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 27th
Landscape/Vision/Interpretation
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State Street Gallery
Robert Morris University, 401 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, September 15th
Care, a rehearsal for a performance: Curator’s Tour with Risa Puleo
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Roots and Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 5:30 PM - 7PM
DAY 2: Video! Video! Video Festival
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Video Video Zine
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Alberto Aguilar: Artist Talk
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Spectralina Performance
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, August 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hot Seven: The Chicago Breakdown
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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 Thursday, August 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 25th
Justice Yeldham / Pigg / Panicsville / Instinct Control
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TRITRIANGLE
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, August 17th, from 8PM - 11:15PM
DAY 1: Video! Video! Video Festival
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Her Environment #4 Dream Machine
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TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, August 16th, at 8PM
On view through Tuesday, August 30th
WALLS OF HOPE: Summer Exhibition 2016
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Pilsen Outpost
1958 W 21st St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Tuesday, August 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Phantasmagoria
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The Stolbun Collection
30 N Michigan Avenue Suite 1515 Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, August 16th, from 4:30PM - 7PM
Field/Work Residency Info Session #1
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Monday, August 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Comfort Society Presents: Kate Hadley Toftness of Rebuild Foundation
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 14th, from 8PM - 9PM
Women Mobilized for Change Public Performance
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Marquette Park
36 Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
MCA Talk: On Painting, Grabner + Otero
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 3PM - 4PM
YALOOFARM FOR ROMAN SUSAN
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Roman Susan
1224 W. Loyola Avenue
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Tuesday, August 30th
Yours Yours Yours Performances
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The Archer Beach Haus
3012 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 8PM - 10
Limits Within Limits: Kate Bonner and Michael Rocco Ruglio-Misurell
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 18th
WHEELHOUSE 2
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Facets
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
What Is and Never Was
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Parenthesis Gallery
2333 W. Ohio Street, Apt 2F, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 7PM - 2AM
On view through Thursday, September 1st
Beauty Breaks
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 3PM - 6PM
God Gives Us Food
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cornerstore
1903 S. Allport #3F
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 18th
Cold Ways: Nights That Haunt the Past
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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 11th
Red Line Service: Summer Festival 2016
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 3PM - 8PM
Saving Mes Aynak
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, August 13th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
19th International Open
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 10th
Up and Coming Chicago Artists Showcase
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Genesis Art Supply
2525 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 12th, at 5PM
On view through Monday, August 15th
Capers for the Socialist: A Pickling Experience
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Papermaker's Garden
Wabash Ave at 8th St, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, August 12th, from 3PM - 4PM
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