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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Martine Syms: Incense Sweaters & Ice
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 12th
National Geographic Live: When Women Ruled the World
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
CANCELLED: Nyeema Morgan
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
AnySquared’s Studio Day
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AnySquared Studio
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 3PM - 10PM
Hooligans Talking About Books
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Uncharted Books
2620 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
In the Yard: a #LetUsBreathe Open Mic
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The #LetUsBreathe Collective, #BreathingRoom Space
1434 W 51st St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
Environmental Concerns
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 18th
Nicholle Kobi: A Parisian Instant
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2215 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 6PM - 10:30PM
The About: Screenwriting Workshop
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Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Ben Foch: Full Grown
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Efrain Lopez Project Space
916 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, September 26th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, October 6th
Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Charlene Carruthers: Unapologetic
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Rediscovering Chicago’s Legendary Artist Edgar Miller
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Friends of Historic Second Church
1936 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tarot 2.0
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Sideshow Gallery
2219 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Figure Tuesdays: Draw Humans with AnySquared
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Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Lucas Foglia
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, Stage Two
618 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL, 60605
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 30th
A Body Measured Against The Earth: Curator Tour
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 12PM - 1PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: Artifacts
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Seeking Safety is Not a Crime
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Nichols Concert Hall
1490 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 30th
Pierre Creton: Va Toto
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 3PM - 5PM
Leslie Baum / Anu Sankaran
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Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
A Shel-a-bration
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Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Frunchroom, Volume XV: The Art Walk turns five edition
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Beverly Arts Center
2407 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Alicia Luna in conversation with Mimi Plauché
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Instituto Cervantes Chicago
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, September 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
Nancy Lu Rosenheim
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Dickson Window Art Project Space
Waubonsee Community College Sugar Grove Campus
Opening Monday, September 24th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 9th
The Area
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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, September 24th, at 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 27th
Boombastic 2018
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Wicker Park
1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 12PM - 8PM
Connie Noyes: silence is ____. Beep, Beep, Beep.
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Cultivator
Bray Grove Farm, 202 East Washington St, Morris IL 60450
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 23rd
Margie Glass Sula: Elements
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Cultivator
Bray Grove Farm, 202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 23rd
VEIL
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Produce Model Gallery
1007 W 19th St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 27th
Sacred Sundays: Aura Cleansing and Astrological Chart Readings
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Sideshow Gallery
2219 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 12:15PM - 5:15PM
Pilsen Outpost – Book Club
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Pilsen Outpost
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
Prisoner’s Song
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 9PM - 12AM
The Area
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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 Sunday, September 23rd, at 3PM
On view through Thursday, September 27th
Woman’s Club: Angela Lopez: Bodies of Water
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The Cuckoo's Theater Project
7077 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, December 20th
Gwendolyn Zabicki: Windows, Doors, and Mirrors: Dance Party!
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 22nd
Year of Creative Youth Festival
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 11AM - 7:30 PM
Local Comfort
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 4th
Cortadito: Panorama Latinx short film showcase
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Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7:15PM - 9:45PM
On view through Saturday, September 22nd
Open History, Open Future
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Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Pay it No Mind Ball
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5110 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, at 9PM
Anthony Janas: A Prairie In the Lake Soundwalk
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Northerly Island Park
1521 S Linn White Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
2:22
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ACRE TV
https://www.acretv.org/
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Rhinestone Cowboy with ATOM-r
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606 Chicago
1801 N Ridgeway Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 5.45PM - 7.15PM
On view through Saturday, September 22nd
Amina Ross: Daisy Chain
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Prairie
629 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
Golden Fleece
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Lit Crawl Chicago 2018
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The Neo-Futurists
5153 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 3PM - 11:30PM
Into the Veil
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Graceland Cemetery
4001 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 8PM - 11:30PM
Chicago’s Gold Coast Patronage and the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 13th
Let’s Play Ketchup!
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Grassroots Chicago, Movement Gallery
515 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 3PM - 10PM
Al. go. rhythms
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 26th
Live/Work
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John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081
Opening Saturday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
The Area
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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 Saturday, September 22nd, at 7:45PM
On view through Thursday, September 27th
Design Transfer
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Pavilion Antiques and 20th C
2055 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 20th
Día de Muertos: A Spiritual Legacy
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, December 9th
NoNonchalant: Abstraction by Ten Chicago Artists
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Alan Koppel Gallery
806 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, November 21st
Young Lords 50th Anniversary Conference
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DePaul University
Opening Friday, September 21st, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 23rd
Julian Randall: Refuse
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The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
The Annual: Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 28th
A City To Wear 2.0: Paintings beyond Painting
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The Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, October 17th
Efrat Hakimi: Tools
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062 Gallery
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
¡No se olvida! Remembering the Tlatelolco Massacre
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 20th
Art off the Canvas
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Jeffrey Breslow Gallery
1015 W Fulton Market St, Chicago IL, 60607
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 21st
Judy Ledgerwood
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 3PM - 4PM
Mixtape: Vol. 6
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7:30PM - 10PM
The Long Term
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Arts and Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, November 20th
To A Woman Passing By
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Obst
1801 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, at 7PM
Passing Time: Kim’s Corner Food with Thomas Kong
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062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
Ryan Richey: In Between Daydreams
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ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 20th
Lauren Pacheco
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Leo Burnett
35 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 8AM - 9:30AM
wndr museum
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wndr museum
1130 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 12PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 22nd
Forrest Nash & Gaylen Gerber
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Friday, December 21st
Common Use: In Your City by the Lake: A Collaborative Chicago Playlist
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Elegant Disruption
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Zhou B Art Center, Defibrillator Gallery
1029 W 35th St, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
Dessa: My Own Devices
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American Writers Museum
180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 1st
CHICAGO: INsideOUT
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Bridgeport Art Center, 3rd Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 19th
September Queer Genre Fiction
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Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
The Ever-Changing Present
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 9PM - 2AM
Patterns of Nature
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 2nd
Third-Shifters: Art that Comes Alive at Night
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Sunday, September 23rd
12 Openings Part 4: Address (Lost)/Schematics
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Moving_Image_00:04
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Bob Jones: and the dirt cutouts left behind
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 20th
The Area
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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, September 21st, at 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 27th
A City to Wear 2.0
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The Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, October 17th
George Kokines: Layers Revealed
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National Hellenic Museum
333 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 1st
Camilo Restrepo: Ghosts and Songs
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Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jessica Sladek: Wait a While
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C33 Gallery
33 E Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, September 28th
All Sheets to the Wind
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Backspace Gallery
330 Gilbert Dr, DeKalb, IL 60115
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Gaylen Gerber
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, December 21st
Cortex
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 9PM - 12AM
Disability Page Turners
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UIC Disability Cultural Center
801 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
Ruby
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SITE Columbus
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago IL, 60603
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
On view through Saturday, October 13th
Art After Work
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 5PM - 7PM
Lightbash
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Ignite Glass Studios
401 N Armour St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Time Is Now to Learn How to Paint!
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The Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
All That Glitters: Chicago Portraits in the Gilded Age
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Frederick Douglass Mixtape
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American Writers Museum, Readers Hall
180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
Public Newsroom 79: The Mega-Millionaires in Illinois Politics
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Experimental Station, Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
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