A last-minute gala venue cancellation is a non-profit’s nightmare, but thanks to the determination of staff and student interns, the Illinois Conservatory for the Arts had a pivotal triumph. The curtain raised just as planned for the “Night of Broadway,” featuring seven stars as well as skillful students, raising record funds for high-level arts education for Chicagoland youth.
Surrounded by elated staff and guests, Taffy couldn’t stop wagging her tail and snuggling admirers as she easily donned the guest of honor mantra at the Anti-Cruelty Society’s 127th anniversary brunch and open house.
The exhibition at Villa Paloma in Monte-Carlo gave us a glimpse of Coco Chanel’s extensive production during the 1920s. She was a visionary whose style and art de vivre appeared on the Côte d’Azur — when the evenings were enchanted, the music was jazzy, and it was okay to get a tan.
Little Village is the vibrant Mexican American neighborhood of Chicago known locally as La Villita. Here you will find local street art and murals, sidewalk food carts, small corner stores, bakeries, candy shops, taco restaurants and retail shops where you can buy everything from piñatas to quinceañera dresses.
If you need an icebreaker at a cocktail party during this 250th year of the birth of the United States, ask people what month the Declaration of Independence was signed. A visit to Philadelphia reveals the remarkable story of how a nation was born.
Ascenzio looked after San Pietro for more than half his life. On the occasion of his eighty-seventh birthday, an American friend painted his portrait — a tender portrait of a man inseparable from the Italian hillside he watched over for decades.
A short story by Classic Chicago’s fiction editor: a young boy, a school bus, and the quiet rituals of a Chicago morning. Scott Holleran’s prize-winning fiction explores the texture of everyday life on the city’s streets.