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Big White Fog at Court Theatre

Court Theatre 5535 South Ellis Ave, Chicago

Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog is the big shoulders on which A Raisin in the Sun stands. First completed in 1938, funded by the Federal Theatre Project, and influenced by […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour
  • Wheelchair Accessible

The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon

Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship 3137 S Federal St, Chicago

The Wrigley Building is one of Chicago’s most emblematic buildings — a gleaming white palazzo at the head of our city’s grandest boulevard, Michigan Avenue. Join us for a panel […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices

Robin Givhan on Virgil Abloh

Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship 3137 S Federal St, Chicago

The late creative visionary Virgil Abloh upended a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste, fundamentally reshaping how we see creativity and the world around us. Join us at […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Braille Programs
  • Large Print Programs
  • Touch Tour

A Performance with Angela Davis and Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble

Illinois Institute of Technology - Herrmann Hall 3241 S Federal St, Chicago

Join us for a powerful musical performance inspired by Angela Davis’s pioneering activism interspersed with readings by — and a post-performance conversation with — Davis herself. Award-winning composer, Guggenheim fellow, […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Audio Description
  • Open Captions

HCL Art/Access Lab: Open Lab | Tsehaye Hébert and Terri Lynne Hudson at Experimental Station

Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago

Art/Access Lab: Open Lab provides artists in the disability community an affinity space for artists to share emerging projects, test ideas, and gain perspective on their work through community exchange. […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • Hybrid Program
  • In Person
  • Low Lighting
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Open Captions
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Sensory Friendly
  • Virtual
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Big White Fog at Court Theatre

Court Theatre 5535 South Ellis Ave, Chicago

Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog is the big shoulders on which A Raisin in the Sun stands. First completed in 1938, funded by the Federal Theatre Project, and influenced by […]

  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Play For All at Chicago Children’s Museum

Chicago Children's Museum 700 E. Grand Ave., Chicago

Play For All invites children and families with disabilities and Museum members to come and experience CCM's inclusive, multisensory exhibits and programs. The museum opens at 10 am for Play […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Quiet Spaces
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Chicago Poetry Center Presents: October Blue Hour Featuring Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright at Haymarket House

Haymarket House 800 W. Buena, Chicago

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Our October featured readers are Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright. Each event […]

  • All Gender Restrooms
  • ASL Interpreted
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Masks Highly Recommended
  • Pay What You Can
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Leo Lionni’s Frederick at Chicago Children

Chicago Children's Theatre 100 S Racine Ave, Chicago

While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick daydreams the summer away. But when fall weather comes, it is Frederick who has stored up something special for the […]

  • Sensory Friendly

Princeton University President on Academic Free Speech

Ida Noyes Hall-- Max Palevsky Cinema 212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago

Princeton University President and legal scholar Christopher L. Eisgruber joins us in conversation to challenge the common assumptions about free speech on college campuses. He argues that most American colleges […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Open Captions