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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Hispanic Heritage Month: Closing Reception
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A Shot of Art at Perkolator
6032 W Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, October 16th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 16th
David Anthony Geary: Artist Talk
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Adam Farcus and Allison Yasukawa: Best Dream Success
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 12th
Demo
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Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center
6433 North Ravenswood Avenue
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Daniel Luedtke: BINDER
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Roman Susan
1224 W. Loyola Avenue
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 4th
Selina Trepp: Do You Have Cents for Nonsense?
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Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, November 19th
Home Viewing #3
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JGV/WAR
3060 W. Cortland, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, November 7th
DIY Workshop with David Philpot
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The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 1PM - 5PM
Count Me In Premiere Screening
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Leslie Moody Castro Lecture
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 2PM - 3PM
Em(body)
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Uptown Arts Center
941 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 13th
FEAR
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Slate Arts + Performance
3203 W North Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 6th
The Red Art: Propaganda Posters from The Cultural Revolution
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 30th
Art for Social Change: Behind The Wall
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Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave.
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 4th
Drive-In Happening
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The University of Chicago, Campus North Parking Garage
5525 South Ellis Avenue
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Triumph School Manual Project #2
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Triumph School
771 N 3906th Rd, Triumph, IL 61371
Opening Friday, October 14th, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 16th
TENDER SPACE
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Hume
3242 W Armitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Dickinson/Hood – ‘Coming in from the North’ Part 2
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 9PM - 11PM
Travis Lampe: A thinly Veiled Cry For Help
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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 6th
Rachelle Hill and Millicent Kennedy: The Trace of an Echo
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Northeastern Illinois University-Fine Arts Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 21st
Netherland: Overexposure
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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 6th
The Red Art: Propaganda Posters from The Cultural Revolution
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The Research House for Asian Art
3217-19-21 S. Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 30th
Happiness is an Inside Job Not an Outside Job / Shadow Chasing
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Efrain Lopez Gallery
901 N Damen Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 13th
Tim Furey: Heroes, Peyote, and Conflict in the Desert Wasteland
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Sidewinder Gallery
4880 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, October 31st
Man, The Times, Man
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Maxwell Colette Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
@loyola_condenser
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Lawrence & Clark
4475 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 23rd
Hubbard Street Lofts Annual Open House
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Hubbard Street Lofts
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 14th
Homecoming: Annual Member Exhibition
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, November 16th
Panel Discussion: ART21—Chris Ware, Gary Panter, and Hillary Chu
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
Chris Kraus Lecture
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The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
ALEXA GRÆ: SEEN
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High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7:30 PM - 11:30PM
Closing Reception — Stephen Eichhorn: Closed Garden
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Johalla Projects
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 209, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 16th
Steve Badauskas: The Longest Night That Ever Was
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Lacuna Artist Lofts
2150 South Canalport 1B-7, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Michael Foster: Brink
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Darshan Center
626 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 7PM - 11PM
Crazy 8 Artists’ Carnival
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State Street Gallery
401 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 23rd
Rick Valicenti: Maybe This Time
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Ralph Arnold Annex
Loyola University Chicago: 1131 W. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 26th
Talking Points
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LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, November 2nd
Temporary Highs
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Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tom Sachs: A Space Program
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Keep the Shadow: The Body and Mourning
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The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Richard Nonas Artist Talk
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Post Folk Panel
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
DePaul in the Arts Lecture Series: Matthew Girson
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, October 12th, from 1PM - 2PM
Antonia Baehr: Propositions 2016: TWO of FOUR
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SAIC Performance
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Juliana Huxtable: Visiting Artists Program Lecture
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Dr, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, October 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Film: The Mission
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Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 11th, at 6PM
Roberto Sifuentes and jonCates: Exsanguination
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DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, October 11th, from 7PM - 11PM
Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 11th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, October 15th
The Embedded Documentaries of Eva Marie Rødbro
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The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, October 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
JB Daniel: Tending
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Cultivator
Bray Grove Farm, Bray Grove Farm, 202 E Washington, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Monday, October 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, October 10th
Catherine Schwalbe: Looking for Truth
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Cultivator
Bray Grove Farm, 202 E Washington, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Monday, October 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, October 10th
Rafael E. Vera: Variations on a Theme
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Harper College
1200 W Algonquin Rd, Palatine, IL 60067
On view through Thursday, November 10th
DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Calum Walter and Nellie Kluz
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 9th, from 7:30 PM - 9:30PM
Finally Got The News
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, October 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
Comfort Society Presents: Juneer Kibria In Conversation With Alison Ruttan
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 9th, from 1PM - 2PM
New Works by Fellows of the Midwest Jewish Artists Lab
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Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 19th
Chantala Kommanivanh: Frontal
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Elephant Room Gallery, South Loop
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 26th
Ours Is Not The Only Planet Earth Has Been
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Ballroom Projects
3012 S. Archer Ave #3
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 29th
Crafting Cultures:Palestinian Embroidery Workshop
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Project Prospera
1220 S 60th Ct, Cicero, IL 60804-1005
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 10AM - 1PM
The Black Snake Tour of Aurora
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Museum of Contempoary Photography
600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 10:45AM - 5:30PM
Conversation with Future Firm and Andrew Heumann: Prescriptions Issue 04 Zine Release
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
Michael Lopez and Jimmy Schaus
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Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 8PM - 10PM
More Strange Than True: Therapy Session
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Pulaski Park
1419 W Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
Thomas Hagen: New Works
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White Ripple Gallery
6725 Kennedy Avenue Hammond, IN 46323
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, December 1st
Sasha Auerbakh: The Formalist / Michael Madrigali: Hungry Games
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cornerstore
1903 S. Allport #3F
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 13th
The World As Always and Never Imagined
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Paul Henry's Art Gallery
416 Sibley Street, Hammond, IN
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 28th
Free CGN Saturday Gallery Tours
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River North
750 N. Franklin
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
I’m a Supermodel – The Living Room Press Photography of Professor Muskrat
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Free Range
3257 West Lawrence Ave., Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 30th
David Anthony Geary: The Great Migration (Movement III)
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sapphire
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Exhaustion and Exuberance
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 27th
David Bodhi Boylan: Seven Sculptures
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 27th
AXIOM
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 4th
Drawn In / Drawn Out
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The Alley Gallery
1712 Sherman Ave, Rear 2, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, November 15th
Sam Kirk: Mujeres Poderosas
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Pilsen Outpost
1958 W 21st St, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 5PM - 10PM
Wonder Twin Powers!
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West Wall at Media Made Great
1350 W. Erie, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Duncan Robert Anderson: Buffalo Mountain Constellations
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AdventureLand Works On Paper
1513 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil
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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 Friday, October 7th, at 2PM
On view through Thursday, October 13th
GirlBand
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The Lorna Room
1523 w Morse Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
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Thomas Masters Gallery
245 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 21st
A Polite Distance
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 29th
Simon Barcham Green: A Personal View of Paper History
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Columbia College Art and Art History
623 South Wabash, Room 203, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Friday, October 7th, from 4PM - 5PM
Theaster Gates: Heavy Sketches
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Richard Gray Gallery
875 N. Michigan Ave., 38th Floor
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 20th
Jennifer Cronin: Spectacularly Ordinary
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The University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 11AM - 12PM
On view through Thursday, October 20th
Mitchell Lecture Series: Mitch McEwen
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The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 4: 15PM - 5:45PM
Conversations at The Edge: The Perlin Papers
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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, October 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
Missing People
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
Generative Ensemble
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 6PM - 7PM
ALL ROADS LEAVE WINNIPEG
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The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Parlour Tapes+ Presents: MIDI TAXI
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Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, October 6th
The Big Draw: Tracing the Building
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
Joey Orr, Andy Yang and Lucianne Walkowicz: Conversations on Art and Science
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 4:30PM - 5:45PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Literary Lions Luncheon
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Casino Club
195 E Delaware Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
Naming Things
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Harris Theater in Millenium Park, 1st floor lobby video wall
205 E Randolph Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 4:25PM - 5:26PM
On view through Monday, October 10th
Conversations on Art and Science
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
36 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Steve Everett: Out of the Frame
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 7th
Jessica Jackson Brown and Zachary Hutchinson: Artists Talk
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University of Illinois Chicago
935 W Harrison St, 106 Henry Hall, Chicago, IL 60607-3532,
Opening Wednesday, October 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
Tal R: Visiting Artists Program Lecture
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Dr, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, October 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
In Conversation with Matt Bodett and Rafael E. Vera
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Ralph Arnold Annex
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Tuesday, October 4th, from 11:30am - 12:30PM
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