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Family fun, food and music on tap at Taste of Des Plaines

By Paul Valade
Jun 14, 2025 5:37 pm - The Taste of Des Plaines is a two-day festival in downtown Des Plaines that centers around food, music and family fun.
‘Prime Minister’ reveals private side of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern

By Ty Burr
Jun 14, 2025 1:59 pm - As sympathetic — and therefore potentially biased — as “Prime Minister” is to its subject, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, it’s also one of the most arrestingly intimate political documentaries you’ll see.
Wheaton Municipal Band celebrates the music of Alfred Reed June 19

By Gail Sonkin, Wheaton Municipal Band
Jun 13, 2025 8:45 pm - Wheaton Municipal Band spotlights prolific band composer Alfred Reed on June 19, featuring his well-known "Armenian Dances," with guest Reed expert Yasuhiro Murakami conducting.
Dierks Bentley’s ‘Broken Branches’ offers familiar country

By RON HARRIS
Jun 13, 2025 9:03 am - Nashville hitmaker Dierks Bentley has delivered “Broken Branches,” his 11th studio album that leans into some well-tread country rock territory, the kind that invariably involves broken hearts, trucks and a cold beer.
‘The Unholy Trinity’ is far from the best of the West

By Ty Burr
Jun 13, 2025 8:42 am - “The Unholy Trinity” is a reminder that they don’t make ’em like they used to — and maybe that’s a good thing. A pokey, low-budget Western enlivened by a couple of aging stars happily hamming it up, it’s the kind of B movie they used to program before the feature and after the cartoon in the old days.
Stephen King on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the end of the world and, yes, joy

By JAKE COYLE
Jun 13, 2025 6:40 am - For half a century, since Brian De Palma’s 1976 film “Carrie,” Hollywood has turned, and turned again, to Stephen King’s books for their richness of character, nightmare and sheer entertainment.
Dakota Johnson, Celine Song on love, dating and ‘Materialists’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 12, 2025 9:33 pm - Filmmaker Celine Song and actress Dakota Johnson discuss how the dating scene works in real life and in movies in the modern-day love story “Materialists.”
Symposium explores Lincoln's early love, career, and legacy in Chicago

Submitted by Abraham Lincoln Association
Jun 12, 2025 4:40 pm - The Abraham Lincoln Association is hosting a June 21 symposium at Cantigny Park in Wheaton with renowned scholars speaking on various aspects of Lincoln's life and legacy. It’s free and open to the public, with registration.
Naperville’s Block 59 dining district to welcome the Cheesecake Factory June 17

By Katlyn Smith
Jun 12, 2025 2:38 pm - Attention cheesecake fans: The Cheesecake Factory has announced that it’s opening a restaurant at Block 59 in Naperville next week.
Buffalo Theatre Ensemble announces new artistic leadership

By Barbara Vitello
Jun 12, 2025 2:07 pm - A year after longtime Buffalo Theatre Ensemble managing artistic director Connie Canaday Howard stepped down, the company named Gus Menary, co-founder of Jackalope Theatre, an off-Loop Chicago company, as the new managing artistic director. Canady Howard retired last year.

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