A sensitive content warning at the “Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close” exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center, is seen on Jan. 22, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) ...

CHICAGO — A majority of the city’s alders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to order the removal of a piece of art at the Chicago Cultural Center, arguing it’s antisemitic.

The controversial puppet art at the Cultural Center was kept up in the name of art. This week, 10 aldermen supported an order that would get the Grant Park Columbus statue out of storage.

CBS News Chicago Live. An Earth Day Action Fair was held Sunday at the Chicago Cultural Center. People turned out to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the first Earth Day at the event organized by ...

Chicago’s South Side stands as a testament to the resilience and creativity of Black Americans who transformed a segregated area into a vibrant cultural center. The story begins with the Great ...

More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address “dysfunction” within the city’s Cultural Affairs department, arguing that staffing turmoil ...

Chicago’s former cultural commissioner, who now runs the nation’s leading arts advocacy organization, says she remains “strangely optimistic” even as President Donald Trump’s ...

Nafsi, inside Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center, on May 22, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Nafsi. 7059 S. South Shore Drive (inside the South Shore Cultural Center) ...

A Labor Day tradition in the city, the free festival will run Aug. 28-31 at Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center. The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events puts on ...