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Fans braved heat to watch Carrie Underwood perform during the 2024 Windy City Smokeout outside the United Center in Chicago.

It’s music festival season. How to stay safe and healthy while enjoying the show.

Music festival season has arrived: a time to gather outside with friends, listening to tunes, dancing, and maybe even getting the chance to rub shoulders with musicians you love.

Fourteen-year-old Dylan Toader of Niles works on a painting during the Barrington Art Festival Saturday. The 17th annual festival, which features the work of at least 125 artists, along with live painting classes, a kids’ art zone, music, food and more, continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at South Cook and East Station streets in Barrington. Admission is free.

Live painting classes part of Barrington Art Festival

Create your own painting or check out the work of other artists at the 17th annual Barrington Art Festival.

Guzman y Gomez closes all suburban locations

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.

Artist Rich Lo works outside the McAninch Arts Center on the College of DuPage campus in Glen Ellyn. On Thursday, the Naperville resident painted a silhouette sculpture for the upcoming “Walking With Giants” exhibition.

‘Walking With Giants’ exhibition to bring larger-than-life art to COD campus

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.

Whistleblower Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Will Allan), center, tries to warn his community about a contaminated local spa in TimeLine Theatre Company’s revival of Amy Herzog’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” Charles Andrew Gardner, left, plays Captain Horster and Grayson Kennedy plays newspaper publisher Hovstad.

Timely as ever: TimeLine Theatre inaugurates new home with superb ‘Enemy of the People’

A superb revival of the ever-resonant “An Enemy of the People” inaugurates TimeLine Theatre Company’s new home.

Former President Barack Obama recently toured the re-creation of the Oval Office at the Obama Presidential Center, which is scheduled to open June 19 on Chicago’s South Side.

Starting with the Obama Presidential Center opening, Chicago and suburban museums unveil ambitious summer exhibitions

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.

It’s love at first sight for Lt. Joseph Cable (Anthony Maggio) and Liat (Louisa Darr) in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” at Paramount Theatre.

Paramount’s ‘South Pacific’ stirs memories for columnist with WWII family ties

The “South Pacific” production at Paramount Theatre in Aurora had been on my calendar for more than a year. I couldn’t wait to see it — and it did not disappoint last week.