Kyle Macmillan

PERSPECTIVE — A celebration wouldn't be a celebration without music. So it's hardly surprising that American composers both well-established and up-and-coming have been commissioned to write works to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Brown gained national fame in the 1960s and ‘70s as one of the Chicago Imagists. His home and studio sold for $1.196 million last year.

Keith Jacobshagen sits for a portrait with his cat Stella at his home in Lincoln. Most Popular

The lawsuit puts back in the spotlight the dealings of the museum's founder, Fred Eychaner, a Democratic megadonor who owns all the properties along West Wrightwood Avenue.

In a collaboration with the Chicago Children's Theatre and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the singer-songwriter set 14 nursery rhymes to music to teach children a love for both music and language.

CHICAGO — The admirably named Guarneri Hall in downtown Chicago opened in 2018, adding an odd yet valuable space to the city's constellation of musical venues. Odd because it is situated on the third floor of an office building, and attendees pass by at least one corporate meeting room while following a circuitous path to the hall. Valuable in that it is always a welcoming, intimate space with just 60 seats and an ambitious sound design overseen by Chicago-based Threshold Acoustics

The Chicago premiere of the work by Milwaukee-born choreographer John Neumeier features superlative dancing and a score by Michel Legrand with definitive flair.

Mäkelä and the CSO stumbled a bit out of the gate Thursday during Sibelius' Symphony No. 7 but the maestro delivered when it came to the main attraction.

“Alderman Merriam's Shells,” which midcentury Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie painted for a Hyde Park alderman, is expected to fetch north of $150,000.

The sale of the 8-by-11-inch work, titled “Alderman Merriam's Shells” (1951), topped $1 million on Thursday, setting a record for the individualist painter's prices at market.