Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, contains 25 years of the work of Paul Pfeiffer.

The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, August 1979.

A textile artist living with cancer searches for her roots in Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine at Arts Judaica.

Jeremy Owens on loss, friendship, and keeping a live lit show built around true-life stories going for 15 years.