Steve Johnson
chicagotribune.com
Chicago, IL, United States
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Chicago Botanic Garden to charge admission fee for first time in 50-year history
The Glencoe horticulture park will reduce its parking fee and ask visitors to pay entry on a sliding scale based on demand and advanced planning. → Read More
New Frida Kahlo exhibit in DuPage is Chicago area’s most comprehensive in decades
Beginning Saturday, there will be 26 Kahlo works plus much related material on view at the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art, the largest collection of her work to be shown in the Chicago area since a 1978 Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition. → Read More
Illinois Civil War Gen. John Logan made Memorial Day a national holiday. Before that, it’s complicated.
A look at the Civil War general from Downstate who gave us, in a sense, an enduring national holiday, a bustling Chicago neighborhood and more to ponder on the question of how people's views on race could evolve. → Read More
Epilepsy community says Chicago Bears’ Justin Fields revealing his condition is landmark moment
He's one of the highest-profile people ever with epilepsy, those living with it and treating it say. That has the potential to be "huge." → Read More
Takeout 25 has saved local restaurants in Oak Park. Now it’s flexing its spending muscle across the Chicago Avenue border, in Austin.
The ad hoc dining club asks participants to pledge to spend $25 a week on carryout at local eateries. It has worked wonders. → Read More
Road trip to Asheville, N.C.: A long way to go for some hikes and a historic home, but worth every mile
Asheville balances art galleries, great food, a brewery on every street corner and an ostentatious display of American old money called Biltmore. → Read More
Shedd Aquarium research vessel worker alleges sex discrimination in lawsuit
Susan Catherine Edgerton alleges she faced a hostile environment as a woman working on the Shedd Aquarium's Miami-based Coral Reef II. → Read More
Fish guts on the Red Line: Chicagoan was transporting specimens for a study showing the long history of microplastics in freshwater species
Just as in saltwater, dissected museum specimens reveal particles of plastic have been increasing in the ecosystem since the 1950s. → Read More
Evanston’s Chef Q, others take 2021 Red Cross Heroes awards
The organization's annual awards this year focused on the good work Illinoisans did during the pandemic. → Read More
To mask up outdoors or not? Some Chicagoans welcoming loosened CDC rules, others find it harder to let go of a new habit
The CDC now says it's okay for vaccinated people to be maskless outdoors in most situations, and for the unvaccinated in some. How are Chicagoans reacting? → Read More
Lawyer, ‘great citizen’ Jetta Jones was Art Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo trustee
The first Black woman trustee at the Art Institute, Jones liked to 'lift others up,' a friend recalled. → Read More
Real ID and expired license backlog — but mostly COVID-19 — create long lines at driver services facilities. But not all of them.
We found one suburban driver services location where there was no line at all. And we offer some tips on avoiding the crush. → Read More
Art Institute names Denise Gardner new board chair, believed to be first Black woman chair at major art museum
Denise Gardner breaks ground at Art Institute by becoming first Black woman board head → Read More
Column: MCA’s ‘The Long Dream’ intended to address inequity through art. But it has become about the museum itself.
“How do we address what have been ongoing and long-term issues in this country?” The exhibit was, on paper, a savvy, almost ideal answer to the range of issues that confronted the MCA, just as those issues have confronted many other old-line cultural institutions across Chicago and the nation. So where did it all go wrong? Or did it go wrong? → Read More
Destination: Vaccination. Amid confusion, Chicagoans traveling to downstate Quincy, elsewhere to get early inoculation access
Chicago vaccine hunters are making the drive to Quincy for a vaccination fix, with Johnson & Johnson on tap. → Read More
Union League Club survives court challenge seeking forced sale of its early Monet painting
A Cook County judge threw out a suit seeking to force the Union League Club to sell "Apple Trees in Blossom," its treasured early Monet canvas, to an Australian art dealer. → Read More
Pritzker plan eases COVID capacity restrictions on theaters, museums, performance venues: ‘It’s the difference between a life preserver and a life raft’
Pritzker plan introduces a "bridge" phase to allow venues to operate at reduced COVID capacities once 70% of Illinois residents 65 and older are vaccinated. → Read More
Beer, bikes and brats on a weekend of moseying through Wisconsin’s hilly Driftless Area
Even amid a pandemic, a weekend in Wisconsin's Driftless Area satisfies with outdoor activities and dining al fresco. Plus: a geology lesson. → Read More
What we lost: A year of sacrifice in the arts forces us to look inward
Culture jobs have disappeared right and left, and culture venues have closed their doors. And then there are the intangibles. → Read More
Old Town School union spotlights demand for seats on organization’s board, backed by the likes of Jeff Tweedy
Jeff and Spencer Tweedy and several prominent music venue talent buyers backed the demand in a petition the union released Wednesday. → Read More