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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Information Wants to be Free & So Do We at The POWER Project
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Hyde Park Handmade
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The Promontory
5311 S Lake Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 12PM - 4PM
Ed Oh: Terminal Forms
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062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 8th
Fall 2019 Open House
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
If Every Mother Were a Saint, Heaven Would be Full By Now
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
The Return of Sunday Soup
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
Cache Gallery
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Consumerism & Consumption
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
Running on Empty: Discussions
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DfbrL8r
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 2PM - 8PM
Chicago Fall 2019 Open House
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Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
Books, Brunch & Botánica: A Seat At The Table
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Que4 Radio
2643 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 4:30PM
The Global Village
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Veeck Gallery at Catholic Theological Union
5416 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Ways We Make presents: Why You Asking All These Questions?
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 10AM - 12PM
76th Annual Salon Show
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South Shore Arts
1040 Ridge Rd, Munster, IN 46321
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, November 10th
Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
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Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Afrofuturist Weekend Day Three
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Artists for Family Focus Evanston
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1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
EXPO Brunch and Conversation with Artist Marvin Tate
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Jinn Bronwen Lee
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60649
Opening Sunday, September 22nd, from 1PM - 2PM
EXPO CHICAGO 2019: Dialogues September 21
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
2019 Filter Photo Festival: Day 3
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Millennium Knickerbocker Chicago
163 E Walton Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 9AM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Pop América, 1965 – 1975
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Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 4PM - 12PM
On view through Sunday, December 8th
North Shore Affordable Art Sale
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Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center
4905 Old Orchard Center, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 10am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Darts on a Map: A Collection of People, Places, and Personalities
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Line Dot Editions
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
A Hero’s Journey Through wndr
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wndr Museum
1130 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60607
Maggie Crowley and Javier Bosques: NEW AGAIN and Iria Prieto and Christhian Diaz: VÍAS
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Produce Model Gallery
1007 W 19th St. Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Jonathan Korotko: Hunt and Play
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Langer Over Dickie
1309 N Leavitt St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 21st
Andy Hunt and Caroline Jacobson: They have yet to be named by their dogs
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UGLY
1056 N Damen Ave, 1f, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Vincent Larouche: Coch/lear/sweat
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New Works
3403 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, October 21st
Present Your Best Self–Creating a Digital Press Kit
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
La Primera Parada: Chicago’s Stonewall Moments
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Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
3000 N Elbridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Curator Tour: Robert Kleinschmidt
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 1:30PM - 3PM
Art on theMART: Fall 2019 Program
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Art on theMART
278-294 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6:30PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 22nd
Kennedy Yanko In Conversation with José Lerma
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Kavi Gupta
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Workshop: Papier-mâché Lanterns and Piñatas
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, October 10th
Cards for Clemency
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Monday, September 30th
Jamila Goods Patio Pop-Up
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Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 9AM - 1PM
What Hasn’t Been Said – Writing Workshop w/ Haydee R. Souffrant
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 10AM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Introductions LIVE from Youth Arts Showcase (YAS! Fest)
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Jay Pritzker Pavillion
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 11AM - 12PM
6th Annual Beverly Art Walk
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Beverly/Morgan Park
2135 W 95th St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 6PM
Out of the Closets and into the Archives
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Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Laboratorio: Preparación de platillos del Día de los Muertos
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Veteran Art Initiative
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Park Tavern Chicago
1645 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 3PM - 10PM
Kristen Neveu: Meditative Abstracts
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The Collage Cafe
1129 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
Afrofuturist Weekend Day Two: Nicole Mitchell’s Xenogenesis
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 8PM - 11PM
The Ship of Tolerance Open Air Concert
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
Sucklord in Chicago
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Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 2:30PM - 11:30PM
Selina Trepp: I Work With What I Have
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New Genres Art Space (NGAS)
118 N Main St, Rockford, IL 61101
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
The Chicago Pancakes & Booze Art Show
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Reggies
2105 S State St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 8PM - 2AM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Uprising Handmade Craft Fair
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Beverly Area Arts Alliance
1908 W 103rd St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 6PM
Sarah Douglas with Theaster Gates and Beth Rudin DeWoody
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Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
Film Positive
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Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
David Getsy, Jonathan David Katz + William Smith
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Richard Gray Gallery
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 2PM
Community Day: Making Space Together
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Public Schools Overton Anthony Elementary
4935 S Indiana Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
Social Architecture: Bronzeville
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Public Schools Overton Anthony Elementary
4935 S Indiana Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
Looks of Freedom: Town Hall
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Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 10AM - 12PM
September Bell Box Loom Refugee Fundraiser
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OGGI Chicago
2451 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
MAKE 18 “Mad Science” Release Party—Poetry
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Danny's Bar
1951 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 21st
Gather: Wanbli Gamache // Jennifer Ligaya
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
American Legion FDR Post 923 BLOCK PARTY
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Post 923 American Legion
1824 W Cortland St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 1PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 21st
Activism Within & Against the Biennial Complex
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, October 2nd
South Asian Modern Masters
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South Asia Institute
1925 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
EXPO CHICAGO 2019: Dialogues September 20
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Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Domina Domi: Closing Reception
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Okay Gallery
2215 S Union Ave, #406, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Emma Mendel and Brad Cantrell: Failure
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The Night Gallery
Future Firm, 3149 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6:50PM - 8:50PM
On view through Thursday, October 17th
JPW3: Rings
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M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 6064
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Ayana V. Jackson: Take Me to the Water
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N. Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Prints United: 2019 Member Exhibition
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
BARELY FAIR
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Julius Caesar
3311 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 20th
The Annual Breakfast
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 9AM - 11AM
2019 Filter Photo Festival: Day 2
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Millennium Knickerbocker Chicago
163 E Walton Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 9AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
The Universal
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Seeing the familiar for the first time
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Art After Hours
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Various Locations
Chicago
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Re:Working Labor
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SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th fl, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, November 27th
I Know You Would Never Laugh At Me
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Baby Blue Gallery
2201 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Wednesday, November 6th
Show Your Paper
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Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 12th
INFERNO CHICAGO
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Chicago Manual Style
1927 W Superior St., Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
Writing + Movement Workshop
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Indian Boundary Cultural Center
2500 W Lunt Ave, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Manish Nai
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Canada b/w Drag City
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 18th
Design Night
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Workshop 4200
4200 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Hammered! 2019
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The Chicago Mosaic School
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
In The Other Room | Four Programs
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DfbrL8r
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
I Want to Give You Flowers But As a Matter of Precaution
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DfbrL8r
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 8PM - 8:40PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Outside The Practice II
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
Jeffrey Gibson: CAN YOU FEEL IT
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Kavi Gupta
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Kidlat Tahimik: Perfumed Nightmare
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 8PM - 11PM
35th Annual American Craft Exposition
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Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL 60022
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Highly Personal
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Stephen Daiter Gallery
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 20th
Colectivo; chicago artists respond to gentrification
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Triton College
2000 5th Ave, River Grove, IL 60171
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
Kennedy Yanko: HANNAH
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Kavi Gupta
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Mad Chicago 2019
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
Profs & Pints: A Maritime History of Chicago
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Cambria Hotel & Suites Chicago Loop
32 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
BLUE
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Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 20th
Sheida Soleimani: YANKEE GO HOME
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL, 60607
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Jacques Louis Vidal: Perfect Strangers
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL, 60607
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Paul Heyer: BORN
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MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
Barbara Kay Herring
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Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
1012 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
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