Events on Friday, June 19
Friday 6/19 @ Daley Plaza
The city's biannual, week-long salute to bicycling Loop workers concludes today with a rally in Daley Plaza. Festivities begin early and...
Friday 6/19 @ Bottom Lounge
Weary-voiced Bill Callahan now performs free of his (Smog) moniker, offering the antithesis of everything associated with the "singer/songwriter" tag. Sure,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/19 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 6/19 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Pop Sizzle Hum & Single Channels
Friday 6/19 @ Tony Wight Gallery
A crop of painting-focused group shows has sprouted in the West Loop this summer. While you'll find some appealing works in...
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
Friday 6/19 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Although the golden age of street photography may have passed, the genre didn't die with the likes of Garry Winogrand or...
Friday 6/19 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 6/19 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Launched in storefronts and spare bedrooms, artist-run exhibition spaces have played a dynamic role in Chicago's creative life for years. Hyde...
Friday 6/19 @ Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre at Loyola University
Stephen Sondheim set Follies at the 30-year reunion of the Weismann Follies, a Broadway musical revue based on Flo Ziegfeld's real-life...
Friday 6/19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
With more than 18 million people practicing in the US, Enlighten Up! asks a fundamental question: Can yoga transform your life?...
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
Friday 6/19 @ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...
Friday 6/19 @ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...
Friday 6/19 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Friday 6/19 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Friday 6/19 @ Randolph St and Halsted St
It's throngs-and-songs season in Chicago, with great neighborhood festivals coming almost every weekend. Taste of Randolph offers up food from West...
Friday 6/19 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Documentary feature Of Time and the City sees screenwriter Terence Davies return to his beloved hometown of Liverpool. The film combines...
Friday 6/19 @ Rowley Kennerk Gallery
Gaylen Gerber's strategy is to play humble host and deft interlocutor at the same time. He invites other artists to include...
Friday 6/19 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...
Friday 6/19 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
A Tribute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)
Friday 6/19 @ Black Ensemble Theater
News of R&B superstar Maxwell's return after a long hiatus is a reminder of times past, and not just his previous...
Friday 6/19 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Buckminster Fuller was a man of vision and contradiction. The twentieth-century architect and inventor was well ahead of his time, yet...
Friday 6/19 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
The Nasty Show with Louis C.K.
Friday 6/19 @ Vic Theatre
A few years ago in Aspen, Colorado, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, or USCAF, presented a foulmouthed midnight comedy show entitled...
Friday 6/19 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Friday 6/19 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Friday 6/19 @ Various locations
This venerable film series, curated by Chicago Filmmakers, is perhaps the ultimate antidote to the summer blockbuster season and the mindless...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Friday 6/19 @ Salvage One
Nestled inside the labyrinthine West Loop antiques-and-architecture warehouse that is Salvage One, Of This Land: The Artist's Touch is a unique...
Friday 6/19 @ Smart Museum of Art
A remarkable artist with a sensibility all his own, H.C. Westermann pursued themes of love, death, and catastrophe in his works...
Friday 6/19 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such...
Friday 6/19 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Friday 6/19 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 6/19 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
Friday 6/19 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
