Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around ...

High Voltage Records & Hi-Fi at 7013 N. Sheridan Credit: Kirk Williamson for Chicago Reader Record Store Day returns this Saturday, April 18, and the following week, Chicago will get its newest ...

Sheriff Tom Dart is quietly lobbying the Cook County Board of Commissioners to expand surveillance both inside the Cook County jail and on the streets. Within the jail’s walls, he’s eyeing a system ...

During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.

Digable became hip-hop darlings early on. Butler launched the group in 1987 and solidified its classic lineup two years later ...

Wishy’s brand-new second album, Nature’s Pill (Winspear), is a dozen tracks of purely pleasurable pop rock. The Indiana five-piece is fronted by guitarists and vocalists Kevin Krauter and Nina ...

This fall, Chicago’s architecture takes center stage as Open House Chicago® returns October 17–18, 2026. Open House Chicago® (OHC) is a free, citywide architecture festival that opens the doors to ...

Mae Koen, Diane Madison, Theresa Davis, Nanette Frank, and Joan Collaso Credit: Alan Mercer (Theresa Davis) and Akilah Townsend for Chicago Reader (all others) The 2013 film 20 Feet From Stardom tells ...

Jen Silverman's update of a Jacobean tragedy cleverly combines contemporary locutions with sharp observations on gender and ...

Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit ...

September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, ...

As a genre, laptop twee is unusually difficult to describe—it’s a strange burgoo of performatively fragile 2000s indie-pop refracted through a couple decades of hyperactive dance music. Among the ...