Guzman y Gomez Mexican Kitchen announced Friday that it was closing all of its U.S. restaurants ― all of which were in the suburbs and Chicago.
As the 12 days of nonstop premieres at the Cannes Film Festival come to a close, so does the extravaganza’s parade of high fashion.
To know where the R&B singer Mýa is headed in 2026, it is best to look backward. Her 10th studio album, “Retrospect,” out Friday, threads the needle from then to now, which fans can hear live during her performance Sunday, May 24, at the Forever Mine Music Festival at Chicago’s Union Park.
Artists are working to paint silhouette sculptures that will be part of the upcoming “Walking With Giants” exhibition at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.
Summer will be rocking with outdoor concerts at Rosemont’s Parkway Bank Park and the Elmhurst History Museum, mini golf resumes at the Morton Arboretum, and Brookfield Zoo Chicago debuts its larger-than-life Dinos! experience.
A superb revival of the ever-resonant “An Enemy of the People” inaugurates TimeLine Theatre Company’s new home.
The biggest cultural event in the Chicago area this year promises to be the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in June. But other suburban and Chicago museums have significant exhibitions planned too.