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Emma Robbins: , her x mark
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MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, July 24th
House of the Apocalypse Art Opening
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House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 14th
New Work/Las Manos
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Las Manos Gallery
1515 W Foster Ave. Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Coming into Being
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S Columbus Dr, Room 109, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 9AM - 12PM
Wanbli Gamache: The Approach
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ACRE
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 14th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Monday, June 24th
Fluid Structures
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Pistachios Gallery
55 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 22nd
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
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Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Convening – Three Days of Activation and Response
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 10AM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Mongane Wally Serote
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Interdisciplinary Art Critique
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Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
FIRST LOOK Fine Print Party
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Chez
247 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Vitalize
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The Lab on the Lake
3450 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Bubbly Creek Performance Art Assembly
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DfbrL8r
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
Choreography and the Archives
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Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Artists’ Guide to Real Estate
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Rear View Mirror Sessions: Curtis Mayfield
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Bubbly Creek Performance Art Assembly | DAY 1 | cross-pollination: Community Partnering
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Co-Prospeirty / DfbrL8r
3219 S Morgan Street Chicago IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, June 13th
OUT at CHM: Quiet as a Riot
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Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
We’re Here: Three Short Films Screening and Discussion
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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
SSCAC Facebook Live Restoration Launch!
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South Side Community Art Center
https://www.facebook.com/SouthSideCommunityArtCenter/
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 9:30AM - 10AM
OTV Presents: Kissing Walls, Yogma & Conspiracy Theorist
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Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sinema Obscura presents: Dinner Theatre Act VI
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Uncommon Ground
1401 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Le Cyc (2009)
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No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 7:56PM - 10:01PM
New Editions: Into the FLXST
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FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, #220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Quemado: Part of First Read
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The Martin
2515 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
Discover cuneiform with objects from the Oriental Institute’s Tablet Collection
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Oriental Institute
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, June 11th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, June 25th
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, June 11th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Hal Hartley: Trust
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Music Box Theater
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Monday, June 10th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Women’s Comics Night: Pride Party
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CHALLENGERS Comics + Conversation
1845 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, June 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Shorts 9: Exile From The Shore Of Reason
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 4:15PM - 6:15PM
Shorts 8: The Uncertainty of the Poet
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 2PM - 4PM
Canceled: 12 Openings/Part 10 Carris Adams/Jasper Nord
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
Breach of Contract: Artist Talk
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 1PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, June 23rd
Experimental Garage Sale 12
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 12PM - 5PM
Shorts 10: The Night Watch
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
2nd “Wo”DMen Art show!
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DMen Tap
2849 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 7PM - 11:30PM
Beach Clean-up + Community Sculpture
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PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 9AM - 5PM
a minor repair. (Part III): Ryan Tacata
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Chicago Cultural Center | Sidney R. Yates Exhibition Hall
78 E. Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 2PM - 2:45PM
Printers Row Lit Fest
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Grace Place
620 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Monday, June 10th
Tappers & Tapestries
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Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 9th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
At Bounded Space: Guided Walk with Hui-min Tsen
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 8th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
Modern Reeds
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 12PM - 1PM
Joslyn Vosta: I want to tell you, but I don’t know how
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Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Tom Torluemke: Artist Talk
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One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 2 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
It Be Like That Sometimes
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 1PM - 3PM
2019 Art West Gallery Tours
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MLK Exhibit Center
1558 S Hamlin Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 1PM - 10PM
Anna Boghiguan
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Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 1PM - 2PM
Old Town Art Fair
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Old Town Triangle Historic District
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 10AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Shorts 4: The Treachery of Images
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 2PM - 4PM
Escape: The art of what could be.
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Old McHenry County Courthouse
101 N Johnson St, Woodstock, IL 60098
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Judith Brotman in conversation with Teresa Silva
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Carris Adams in conversation with with Jinn Bronwyn Lee
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Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Shorts 6: The Ninth Wave
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
We Can Dig It: A Benefit for Chi-Nations’ Decolonizing Efforts
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New Rhythm Arts Center
1441 W Morse Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 6PM - 11PM
Shorts 5: Harmony Squares With Concentric Rings
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 4:15PM - 6:15PM
Shorts 7: This Knot of Life
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 9:15PM - 11:15PM
Stonewall Uprising
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Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
K-llaboration Art Show
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C.C.'s Art Garage & Gallery
2727 S Mary St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
LOW RES Spring Snap-Off
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The Robey Chicago
2018 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 10AM - 1PM
Far from the distance we see: Gallery Talk
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Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
ENDless WAR: Political Prints and Graphics
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 4PM - 5PM
Butoh and Movement Workshop
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Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 2:30PM - 4:30PM
Mika Agari and Lauren Taylor: Jingle Bell Rock
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Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, July 8th
Anthony Pateras
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 8PM - 10PM
a minor repair. (Part II): Ryan Tacata
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Chicago Cultural Center | Sidney R. Yates Gallery
78 E. Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 7PM - 7:45PM
David Leggett
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Shane Campbell Gallery
2021 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Marion Kryczka: Paintings & Drawings
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Eat Paint Studio
5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
Slaps! Vol 2
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Vault Gallerie
2015 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Noah Breuer: CB&S Werkstätte
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Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, #302, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Michael K. Paxton: Raw Reckoning
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Spatial Rendering
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Adds Donna
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
A Sense of Gravity
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Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Personal History in Narrative Figure Paintings
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Agitator Cooperative Gallery
1211 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, July 6th
Photos at Noon: Approaches to Documentary
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 12PM - 1PM
Slow Read
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Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 19th
Jane Barthès & Dennis Kowalski: In Plane View
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Gallery Studio Oh
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Elke Claus: Star Maps and Cosmic Things
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Morpho Gallery
5216 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
Jane: An Abortion Service
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Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Shut Up Stone Mountain
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Wednesday, June 26th
Empathy
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Aurora Public Art
20 E Downer Pl, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 20th
Mac Blackout: Cosmic Pop
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Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Messier Objects: Closing Reception
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062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Fight Like a Girl Photo Exhibit
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1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Shorts 3: The Kiss
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The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 9:15PM - 11:15PM
Imprints & Abstractions
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Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 6th
Teen Night: CPS Lives
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 4PM - 6PM
Jane Barthès & Dennis Kowalski: In Plane View
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Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Beebe & Reeves: Two Expanded Cinema Performances/DJs Phil Puleo and Scott Schafer
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 10PM - 12AM
Raising Girls
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LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 8PM - 9PM
Objects of Desire
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Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Michael Kaysen: Tables, Legs and 10 Bottles
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65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 13th
7th Annual BrooksDay
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Chicago State University
9501 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 3PM - 8PM
Maxwell Street: Capturing the Essence of a Remembered|Forgotten Place
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Chicago State University
9501 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 1PM - 2PM
a minor repair. (Part I): Ryan Tacata
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Chicago Cultural Center | Sidney R. Yates Exhibition Hall
78 E. Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 7:45PM
Paul Beaty: Midwest American Scenes
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The Dime
1513 N Western Ave, Unit 104, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Susan Hagen: Citizens
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AdventureLand Works On Paper
1513 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Bob Buchholz: Dada Deluxe & Diane Green:Good to be Seen
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This Is It MUSE Gallery
1700 S Loomis, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
State of Undress
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Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 West Superior, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 6th
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