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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
June 2018
Which Ancestors Week Do We Run Towards? Week 2
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
Ben Blount: Typecast
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Aron Packer Projects at Chicago Gallery News
213 W Institute Pl, #309, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Community Call to Action
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BBF Family Services
1512 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 12PM - 2PM
Anthology
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ORBIT
1350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6 PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 22nd
Jeff Sonhouse: Entrapment
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Monique Meloche Gallery
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 18th
Manal Kara: Panty Hoes at the Dawn of the Chthulucene
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Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 7 - 10
On view through Sunday, July 8th
Juneteenth
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Jimmy Beans Gallery
2553 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, July 5th
The Driehaus Museum’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration!
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
Lawrence Weiner: Out of Sight
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Maggie Daley Park
337 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, June 23rd
Recovering Soundscape Soundwalk with Norman W Long & Sara Zalek
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Big Marsh Park
11555 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60617
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 4PM - 6PM
Andrea Kaspryk: Carrying Burdens and Tracy Kostenbader: Eating Words
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Agitator Cooperative Gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Caroline Larsen: Flora Frenzy
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 21st
Rachel Grobstein: Infra-ordinary
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ANDREW RAFACZ
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 21st
SUMMER SERIES: SESSION I
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Produce Model Gallery
1007 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Revolutionary Imagination: Chicago Surrealism from Object to Activism
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The Study Chicago
1837 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Eelco: Forces Of Nature
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Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
Meaning to touch
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Rover Gallery
1957 W Cullerton St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 8th
Collage Rock / Ten Tiny Plays / Teared Up: A Film Screening
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The Back Room at Kim's Corner Food
1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 4PM - 6PM
Part of Pride: Schlip Shlops
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Chicago Public Library, King Branch
3436 S King Drive, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 9th, from 1PM - 2PM
A Room Without Walls: Teaching Artistry Exhibition
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W. Superior St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 8th
STARDUST SPRING/SUMMER 18 FASHION EXHIBITION
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Savage Smyth
920 North Franklin Street
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 8th
Hops & Gold: The Chicago Gilders Brewery Sign Exhibition
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Ugly Step Sister Gallery
1750 S Union Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, June 29th
MAS Context: Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
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Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Room
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 5:30PM - 6:30 PM
Surrealist Soirée with The Neo-Futurists
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Rachel Lechocki
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Simone’s Bar
960 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 1st
Open Television Premieres: New Black TV
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative
1456 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Common Use: Fieldwork Collaborative, Public Park
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Omnimodum by Lefty Out There and Friends
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All Star Press Chicago
2775 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
The Point Mag Issue 16 Launch Party
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125 S Clark St, 6th Floor Lounge, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9.30PM
On view through Friday, June 8th
(a)wake: A Performative Potluck
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2937 N Allen Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Famished Youth
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LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted St, #200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
& Eat it, Too!
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The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
BUBBLY CREEK
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The Learning Machine
3145 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
Dee Clements: Textile Studies
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, #100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 29th
Charles White: A Retrospective
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 23rd
Recollection
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Z1 Gallery
2850 W Belden Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Darian Longmire and Helmut Hammen: Material to Void
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Baby Blue Gallery
2201 S Halsted St. 3-4s, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, June 29th
The Calm Before The Storm
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3144 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
House of the Apocalypse
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House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
A Home for Surrealism
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 17th
POWER Project: Time Salon – Collaborative Economies
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Designing Great Minds for Democracy: Mortimer J. Adler, Great Books, and Mid-century Citizenship
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
Revolutionary Imagination: A Symposium on Chicago Surrealism
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University of Chicago, Cochrane Woods Art Center
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 10AM - 3:30PM
AMD Senior Capstone Exhibition 2018
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
Work In Progress 2018
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, June 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
Parks as Contested Spaces
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Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 6th
Overlook Field Trip: Disappearance & Video as Document Screening
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chosen Few DJs take over Daley Plaza
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Daley Plaza
50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 12PM - 1PM
In-Session: Aztlan Goal Line
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Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Preserving Pilsen: Future of Green Space and Affordable Housing
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National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
Elective Studies Supper Club– Vol. 17
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Land and Sea Dept.
3124 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
Awesome Foundation Anniversary Party
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Ace Hotel Chicago
311 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
On the Fringe of Mesopotamia: Investigating Urbanization and Cultural Interaction During the Bronze Age in an Unexplored Part of Iraqi Kurdistan
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The Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall
1155 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 7PM - 8:45PM
BEVERLY FRESH: Really Somethin Else: Tour
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
Art and The Language of Displacement: A Creative Workshop Examining Media’s Impact on Gentrification
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, June 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
All Over the Place: Photo-based Work by Larry Chait
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Village of Lincolnwood Art Gallery
6900 N Lincoln Ave, Lincolnwood, IL 60712
Opening Tuesday, June 5th, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Tuesday, July 10th
Leading Ladies of Chicago’s Columbian Exposition
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 5th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Propeller Fund 2018: Information Session 1
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Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, #100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, June 5th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Gallery Talk: Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, June 5th, from 12PM - 1PM
The Final Wit Rabbit
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Quenchers Saloon
2401 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, June 5th, from 7PM - 10PM
First Monday Jazz: Ernest Dawkins
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Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, June 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
POWER Project: Time Salon – Gift Economies of Scale
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, June 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
Jungyul Yu: Intimate Landscape: Tour
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Bezazian Branch, Chicago Public Library
1226 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, June 4th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Infrastructures of Encounter: The Sidewalk Workshop
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 3rd
Lise Haller Baggesen and Iris Bernblum: I am the horse
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GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 14th
sea
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Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
POWER Project: Time Salon – Empathic Economies
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Consider This: Mari Andrew’s Journey to Adulthood
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Low Res Studio
1821 W Hubbard St #203, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 1PM - 3PM
Soundscapes of Color
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 2:30PM - 4PM
The Smile Behind the Mask: Artist Talk
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Brian Dovie Golden: Silver Lining
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Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, June 3rd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Sis, U Belong Here: A Gathering for Black Women
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, at 10AM
57th Street Art Fair
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57th Street, Hyde Park
57th St, Between Woodlawn and Kenwood Aves, Hyde Park, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 11 am - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 3rd
Yhelena and Michael Hall: Wilderness and Household and Ben Kurstin: Dime a Dozen
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Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
CAKE: Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 2018
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Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 3rd
In Real Life
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Platform
904 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, July 13th
Carson Fox: Sticks and Stones
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Linda Warren Projects, Gallery Y & X
327 N Aberdeen St Ste 151, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Jeanne LaCasse
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Ice House Gallery Evanston
609 South Blvd, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
Through the Light
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Standing Passengers
1458 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, July 10th
High Concept Labs’ Spring Sponsored Artist Send-Off Celebration
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Black Prism Moon
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 3rd
Which Ancestors Do We Run Towards? Week 1
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 2PM - 5PM
What does it mean to be Chinese in America?
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
68 + 50 Organizing PARTY
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
Collin van der Sluijs: No Concessions
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Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 23rd
Vanessa Filley
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Frances Willard House Museum
1730 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 12PM - 5PM
Plants & Animals’: Healing Tentacle
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The Learning Machine
3145 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 2nd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 7th
Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Monday, October 1st
Other Rooms
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Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 29th
ONE 2018
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Cleve Carney Art Gallery
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 28th
Vampire’s Kiss
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Aspect/Ratio
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 14th
Fashion, Body, and Garment
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Bucktown Gallery
2207 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 17th
Catherine J. Davis: The Third Coast
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 21st
Memory Palace
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 20th
Embodied Politic
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, July 6th
this is the place
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ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Welcome to Your Body
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Zakaib
3491 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 22nd
The Soup Is On: Experiment in Critical Practice
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Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 9AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Central Illinois High School Art Exhibition
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University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 29th
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