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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
ARACHNIDAE: 2024 BA Thesis Exhibition
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Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
“This Is What We Carry” a community art show
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St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, April 28th
Context 2024
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Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Threads of Survival
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Everybody's Coffee
935 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 1st
Jessica Zawadowicz: Figure, Ground, Rocks
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free range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
FOUR WALLS / FOUR ARTISTS
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
5024 // Yemeni Futurism with Alia Ali
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Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 22nd, at 4PM
Field Notes “Flora” Edition Launch Party
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Field Notes HQ
401 N Racine Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 4PM - 8PM
KMRU
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Logan Center
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 22nd, at 8PM
PACH Book Club – March
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 7PM - 8PM
Strip Strip (1968) // Pink Flamingos (1972)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 21st, at 9:30PM
PO Box Poetry Series
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Letras Latinas 20th Anniversary: Poetry Reading
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Forever a Woman (1955)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 21st, at 7PM
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Regin Igloria: Seven Skins: Community Binding Workshop 1
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Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash. Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
Alessandra Ricci: Teatricci
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Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 19th
To Ponder: Radicle Residents 2024
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Elisabeth Subrin: MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1982 and SHULIE
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 21st, at 6PM
Lecture: Picasso—The Mask within the Model
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
Raeleen Kao: Elevate Artist Reception
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21c Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, April 30th
LJ Lindhurst: Tidy Heck: A Collection of Paintings
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Lunk + Hancy
902 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL, 60093
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Home of the Brave
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Stamelos Gallery Center
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Jason Peot and Perry Pollock: Considerations
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Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Cir, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, March 21st
Singing Bird and the Importance of Native American Women in Illinois History
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Quincy Public Library
526 Jersey St, Quincy, IL 62301
Opening Thursday, March 21st, at 6PM
March – Open Mic
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Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
A Night at Mister Kelly’s
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, March 21st, from 10AM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
Richard Wetzel: Some Must Watch: Paintings 1983-85
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 27th
John Chamberlain: Black Mountain Poems 1955
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Damon Locks, Terri Kapsalis, Wayne Montana, Rob Shaw Noon Moons
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, April 27th
LGBTQ+ VR Museum
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle Normal, IL 61761
On view through Wednesday, March 27th
WHIM Visual Artist Series: Marie Magnetic
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Whim Chicago @ Stage 773
1225 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 14th
TENGGER
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, at 7PM
Terry Gilliam: Brazil (1985)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 23rd
“Saints and Sinners” Exhibit Tour with Project Onward & Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography
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Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 7th
Lecture in Photography: Marianne Nicolson
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, March 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Homeroom Residency: Spectralina w/ Amalea Tshilds + Lia Kohl
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, at 8PM
Talk | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
SAME but DIFFERENT
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Buckingham Fountain
301 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
The Happy Invention: History and Significance of Picture Postcards
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Odell Public Library
307 S Madison St, Morrison, IL 61270
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, at 6:30PM
Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
They Live + O.C. & Stiggs a part of Highs & Lows – A Film Series
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Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, March 19th, at 7PM
Summer J. Hart and S. Yarberry celebrate BOOMHOUSE
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust (1991)
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Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, March 18th, at 7PM
CLEAT Series: Michael Schumacher, Derek Rogers, Stephan Moore
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, March 17th, at 8PM
Nam Le: 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
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Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 3PM - 4PM
Chicago Creative Machines: X.A. Li
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
PERCEPTIONS OF FLOW: FORMATION
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 24th
Ancestors: Roots & Branches
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Forshey Gallery at the Chicago Temple
77 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, March 17th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Thursday, May 30th
Carina Vargas-Nuñez: mano a mano
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cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Unit 920, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea
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Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater
1650 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, March 16th, at 8PM
Tremendous Music: Nick Meryhew, Hedra Rowan, Yiyi Liu + GoRB, Jessi Gaston
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 16th, at 8PM
ViolatedBodies
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The Athenaeum Theatre
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Side Yard Sounds: Hali Palombo + Twilight Furniture + Andy Ortmann
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Compound Yellow
#244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Fetish Film Forum – Geographies of Public Sex, Contemporary Shorts
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
March Queer Crafty Potluck
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
Cathie Crawford: Relief Printmaking
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Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, March 29th
Tita Recometa-Brady & Jill Kolker: Landscapes / Cityscapes: Closing
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SoNa Chicago Art Gallery
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Community Conversations: Vida Sacic, Artist in Residence
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Flexspace at Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 2PM - 4PM
IF THE SKY COULD DREAM: Exploratory Tour with Irene Hsiao
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Heritage Museum of Asian Art
3500 S Morgan St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Chelsea Bighorn: Artist Talk
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Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, March 16th, at 1PM
Saturday Studio: Small Woven Structures
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 2PM
Shake Shook Shaken: Sound Suits You w/ Devin Ulery + Julie Meckler
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, March 16th, at 12PM
Family Day: Designing Your Interior
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Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, March 16th, from 12PM - 3PM
Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea
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Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater
1650 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 8PM
With a Little Help From My Friends
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 8PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Mohamed Jabaly: AMBULANCE (2016)
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Sweet Void Cinema
3036 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 8PM
Anaïs Maviel w/ Ernest Dawkins, Ben LaMar Gay, Cristal Sabbagh, olula negre, BSA gold, Adam Zanolini
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 8PM
Gathered In The Stretching Now
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE by M. Woods
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 7PM
Felon: An American Washi Tale
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
AMERICAN PRECARIAT: Zeke Caligiuri and Bill Ayers
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Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
Hauptscenes: Self-Portraits
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
David Vosburg: ambulatory
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Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 13th
2024 Illinois High School Art Exhibition
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Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Emily Harter: Renderer Renders
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St. STO
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Verdant Love Lovey
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Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 27th
Marcela Torres: I Brought You Flowers / Te Traje Flores
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Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
Mark McNess: Technical Difficulties
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Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, April 1st
404 Not Found
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Bridgeport Art Center, Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 15th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, April 12th
Moscoso Cosmos: Victor Moscoso’s Visual Universe
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Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
You’re Not Really Seeing This
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 22nd
Kelsey Merreck: You’re Not Really Seeing This
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 22nd
Imagined Landscapes
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Carl Hammer Gallery
740 N Wells St. Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 10th
Carol Pylant: Equipoise
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Gallery VICTOR
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
Lorraine Peltz: All I Know About Love and Gardens
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
William Conger: Night & Day
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Lora Fosberg: Help. I’m Alive.
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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Su Kaiden Cho: Interweaving Boundless
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220 Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 21st
Chris Reeves & Lauren Sudbrink: Unlearning Exercises
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 20th
Live Arts | The Next Cup of Tea
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Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater
1650 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, March 14th, at 8PM
Divine Dilemmas: Cantinflas, Humor and Tradition in El Padrecito
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 16th
Drag History Movie Night: First Impressions (1977) and Beautiful by Night (2014) Drag History Movie Night: First Impressions (1977) and Beautiful by Night (2014)
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
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Haymarket House
Online
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Open Door: Claire Pentecost + Beth Jacobs, MMM + Clareese Hill
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Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
World After This One: A Performance by Benji Hart
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Nora Benjamin and Arrietta van der Voort: I Am, I Am, I Am: Artist Talk
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C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B Wells Dr Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, March 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, April 3rd
Video Data Bank Presents: ROUNDABOUT
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 14th, at 6PM
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