Latest Events in Chicago(June Updated)

K-POP IdolsStray KidsAnnounce 20 New Shows in Latin America, North America, Europe, and the UK! The highly anticipated Stray Kids World Tour will hit ChicagoWrigley Field on June 26, 2025.

Impressionist artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894)—known and beloved by many Art Institute visitors for his monumental painting Paris Street; Rainy Day—takes center stage in this major exhibition exploring the very personal interests and relationships that shaped his world.

Experience the ultimate celebration of Juneteenth with the R&B Music Experience at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Immerse yourself in the soulful sounds of R&B music on June 19, 2025, at 200 E Cermak Road, IL, 60616. Join us for a memorable evening filled with powerful performances, meaningful lyrics, and a vibrant atmosphere. Celebrate freedom and unity through the timeless melodies of R&B music at this special Juneteenth event.

The Savannah Bananas are a member of the Coastal Plain League, and they compete in regular baseball games within the league on weekdays. In the off-season, they will hold their own banana ball exhibition games. "I know we will never win the World Series, and we will never be the best baseball team on the planet, but we can be the most entertaining baseball team in the world. This is our mission and our vision," said Jared Orton, the club's president. The rules include: a two-hour game time limit, no bunts, the batter can choose to steal first, no walking out of the box, no on-base, and a scoring system, where the team with the most runs in each inning gets one point. In addition to the rules, the team brings a series of entertainment performances to almost every field, including choreographed dances, bizarre skits, and players walking around the stands to interact with fans.

H. C. Westermann’s work combines a graceful mastery of materials, rough and tumble physicality, commonsense philosophizing, acrobatic wit and wordplay, and a sensitive worldview shaped in equal measure by the horrors of wartime and the devotions of love. He used a wide-range of materials but was most dedicated to woodworking, once stating that wood was his “whole life.”

Experience the electrifying performance of Stray Kids at their World Tour event, [dominATE CHICAGO], set to take place at Wrigley Field in Chicago on June 26, 2025. This highly anticipated show promises to be a memorable evening filled with incredible music and captivating visuals. Don't miss your chance to see this talented K-pop group live in action at this iconic venue located at 1060 West Addison, IL, 60613. Be sure to secure your tickets early for what is sure to be a night to remember.

Unveiling Frida Kahlo’s work for the first time in the Art Institute galleries, this exhibition focuses on the celebrated Mexican artist’s first and only trip to Europe and her brief yet pivotal encounter with Mary Reynolds, an American avant-garde bookbinder who stood at the center of a rich Parisian artistic community. Drawing upon the extensive Mary Reynolds Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago and extraordinary Kahlo loans from public and private collections in the US, Mexico, and Europe, the presentation sheds light on this little-known chapter of 20th-century art history, recounting the legacies of Kahlo and Reynolds—both artists themselves and partners of artists—as they navigated Surrealism, identity, and cross-cultural exchange on the eve of World War II.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA are set to electrify Chicago with an unforgettable performance at Soldier Field Stadium on June 6, 2025, at 7:30 PM. This highly anticipated event, Kendrick Lamar, SZA Chicago, promises an evening of unparalleled musical artistry from two of the industry's most influential artists. With ticket prices ranging from $44 to $247, fans will experience a dynamic blend of Kendrick Lamar's thought-provoking lyrics and SZA's soulful melodies. Soldier Field Stadium, located in the heart of Chicago, IL, offers the perfect backdrop for this monumental concert. As the city gears up for this spectacular event, anticipation is building for what is sure to be a night filled with powerful performances and unforgettable moments.

Born in Calcutta and raised in the verdant Himalayan mountains of Kashmir, Shaw draws deeply on the landscapes and memories of his early life, many of which were fractured by political upheaval. Forced to leave Kashmir as a teenager, he relocated first to New Delhi and later to London, where he studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. His work is influenced by a broad range of sources—Mughal and Persian miniatures, Renaissance altarpieces, Old Masters paintings, Japanese arts of the Momoyama period, Kashmiri and Urdu poetry, and Hindu and Western mythology—and yet his visual vocabulary and technique are all his own.

Experience the magic of Beyond Wonderland Chicago at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in the Windy City. Immerse yourself in a world of electronic dance music on June 7, 2025, at 1300 S. Linn White Drive, IL, 60605. Get ready for a night of unforgettable performances and vibrant visuals in the heart of Chicago. Get your tickets now and step into a wonderland like no other.

Chicago Cubs Game Join us on a charter bus trip to Wrigley Field! Cheer on the Cubs as they take on the Pittsburg Pirates for a Father's Day at the ballpark. Get ready for an unforgettable experience filled with thrilling moments, delicious ballpark food, and the electric atmosphere of Wrigeyville. Don't miss out on the chance to be a part of the action at Wrigley Field with fellow fans. Grab your tickets now and get ready to root, root, root for the Cubbies! Date: Sunday, June 15, 2025Departure Time: 9AM (From Coady Park Civic Center)Wrigleyville Arrival Time: 12PMGame Time: 1:20PMPrice per person: $130Seats in section 203 (3rd base line) Information Source: Paxton Park District | eventbrite

Renowned multimedia artist Dieter Roth’s preferred form, and the one he spent his lifetime pursuing, was the Gesamtkunstwerk, a German term for “total work of art.” Working across a diverse range of media, disciplines, and creative activities, Roth developed an artistic practice that dissolved the boundaries between art and life, upending traditional categories, hierarchies, and even timeworn notions of singular authorship. Often collaborating with other artists, including his son Björn, Roth produced an ever-expanding body of work that gestured toward the cumulative effects of a life spent making and remaking.

From large-scale figures of gods and goddesses to portraits of emperors and magnificent funerary monuments, this exhibition brings to North America, for the first time, a selection of 58 rarely seen ancient Roman sculptures from Italy’s storied Torlonia Collection.Nearly half of these sculptures, which range in date from the 5th century BCE to the early 4th century CE, have not been publicly displayed in more than 70 years and have been newly cleaned, conserved, and studied specifically for this exhibition, making for a spectacular opportunity to experience their first public presentation in decades. The Torlonia Collection is not only the largest private collection of Roman marble sculptures in Italy, but it is also arguably the most important of such private collections in the world. Comprising 622 works and a wide range of sculptural types and subjects, its holdings rival those of major institutions in Europe, including the Capitoline and Vatican Museums.

The Heian period (794–1185), the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, saw many women writers garner acclaim for novels and a specific type of poetry called waka. Murasaki Shikibu (about 973–1016) and Ono no Komachi (active about 833–57) are two of the country’s most renowned poets from this period.

Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom presents 25 years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, HI; lives in New York, NY), whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle and mass culture. By repurposing the tools and systems of media production—including editing, staging, and outsourcing—Pfeiffer recontextualizes global celebrities such as pop stars, film actors, and athletes to reveal relationships between audiences and athletes. icons. As the artist puts it, “who’s using who? Is the image making us, or do we make images?”

Please join us in person on Tuesday, June 3rd at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Melissa Febos' new memoir, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex. Melissa will be in conversation with Jessica Hopper! About The Dry Season: In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break: For three months she would abstain from dating, relationships, and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Febos, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship after another. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her midthirties. Finally, she would carve out time to focus on herself and examine the patterns that had produced her midlife disaster. Over those first few months, she gleaned insights into her past and awoke to the joys of being single. She decided to extend her celibacy, not knowing it would become the most fulfilling and sensual year of her life. No longer defined by her romantic pursuits, she learned to relish the delights of solitude, the thrill of living on her own terms, the distinct pleasures unmediated by lovers, and the freedom to pursue her ideals without distraction or guilt. Bringing her own experiences into conversation with those of women throughout history—from eleventh-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Virginia Woolf, and Octavia Butler to the Shakers and Sappho—Febos situates her story within a newfound lineage of role models who unapologetically pursued their ambitions and ideals. By abstaining from all forms of romantic entanglement, Febos began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical, new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her spirituality, her creative practice, and, most of all, her relationship to herself. Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism, The Dry Season tells a story that’s as much about celibacy as its inverse: pleasure, desire, fulfillment. Infused with fearless honesty and keen intellect, it’s the memoir of a woman learning to live at the center of her own story, and a much-needed catalyst for a new conversation around sex and love. About the authors: Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, the Black Mountain Institute, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, The Sewanee Review, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly. Jessica Hopper is a director, producer, and author based in Chicago. Most recently, Hopper directed and executive produced the four-part docuseries Women Who Rock, released in the summer of 2022. She has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, and Bookforum. Her first book, The Girls Guide To Rocking (Workman, 2009) was named a Notable Book for Young Readers by the American Library Association. She is the author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic, published in a revised and expanded second edition in 2021, and the 2018 music memoir Night Moves. She was formerly the Editorial Director at MTV News, and Senior Editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. She is series editor of The American Music Series at the University of Texas Press. In 2019, Hopper served as host and executive producer for KCRW’s popular music history podcast, Lost Notes. In 2021, she co-founded Golden Teapot, a production company specializing in music and culture documentary work, with her sister, former Rookie publisher Lauren Redding. Hopper’s forthcoming book, No God But Herself: How Women Changed Music in 1975, is due from MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux in 2025. About this event: This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the registration link below. Melissa and Jessica will be happy to sign and personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available after the event and we ship nationally. Information Source: Exile in Bookville | eventbrite

Experience the electrifying Grand National Tour featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA at Soldier Field in Chicago on June 6, 2025. Immerse yourself in the dynamic performances of these iconic artists at the renowned venue located at 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive, IL, 60605. Don't miss this unforgettable evening of music and entertainment that promises to leave a lasting impression on all attendees. Get ready to witness a spectacular show that will captivate audiences and make this event a standout highlight of the year.

CHECK BACK FOR RIDE UPDATES! Southside Critical Mass' ride is 1st Fridays at 5:45pm. Come join the ride from Nichols Park (south end, 55th & Kimbark) 1300 E. 55th St, Chicago. Bring mask, helmet, water, money, bike lock, bike lights, jacket. The ride is free. Meet at 5:45pm and ride at 6:15ish. Please be aware that by participating in Southside Critical Mass rides you accept that you are responsible for your bike’s condition, your own fitness to ride and your own safety. The streets may present hazards. Please wear a helmet. Social Pop-up Ride. Route subject to change. Everyone is responsible for themselves. Ride at your own risk. Please ride in a safe manner. Have Fun! Happy Friday! Please like our page and share this post. Thanks! The Southside Critical Mass bike ride meets every 1st Friday of the month at 5:45pm riding at 6:15ish at Nichols Park (Plaza), located at 55th & Kimbark. We do not ride in winter or (December through March) . We normally travel about 15-20 miles at a moderate pace (rolling speed 10-14 mph). Our monthly ride through the Southside of Chicago is focused on using the activity of cycling as a vehicle to make our neighborhoods more bikeable and ultimately more liveable. We support businesses in the area. Facebook: Southside Critical Mass Twitter & Instagram: Southside Critical Mass Information Source: Southside Critical Mass Chicago | eventbrite

Welcome to the Full Moon Intention Vial Workshop at The Insect Asylum! Honor the lunar cycle with our Full Moon intention vial-making workshop. Under the transformative energy of the full moon, you'll craft a personalized vial using butterfly wings, botanical elements, and other organic materials to symbolize your hopes and aspirations for the year ahead. This workshop celebrates the spiritual significance of the full moon, a time of heightened energy, reflection, and manifestation. Together, we’ll channel this lunar power to set positive intentions, embrace new beginnings, and align with the cycles of nature. All materials are provided, but you’re welcome to bring small, meaningful items to make your vial even more unique. Join us at The Insect Asylum for an enchanting blend of creativity and mindfulness, and carry your intentions into the new year with purpose! Accessiblity note: please be aware that our classroom spaces are not wheelchair access at this time. We are happy to accomodate with an accessible classroom space for insect pinning on a case by case basis. Please email us with accessiblity needs before the class at theinsectasylum@gmail.com Additional Note: Families are welcome! Children under 14 should be accompanied by an adult. If you or your child would like to simply watch the class without participating, we’d love to have you. You can easily grab guardian/observer tickets at the front desk or online through our ticket portal. Information Source: Nina Salem | eventbrite

Experience the ultimate musical journey with the Barenaked Ladies: Last Summer On Earth Tour 2025, coming to Chicago on June 11th. The iconic Chicago Theatre will set the stage for this unforgettable evening at 175 N State St, IL, 60601. Don't miss this opportunity to witness one of the most anticipated events of the year, as the Barenaked Ladies deliver a sensational performance that will leave you in awe. Get your tickets now and be part of a night to remember.

Experience the captivating soulful sounds of Ledisi with special guest Marsha Ambrosius on their "Love You Too" tour at The Chicago Theatre in Chicago. The event is scheduled to take place on June 12, 2025, at 175 N State St. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to witness these talented artists perform live in one of the city's most iconic venues. Get ready for a night filled with unforgettable music and soul-stirring performances.

Natalia Lafourcade will be performing live on her Cancionera Tour at The Chicago Theatre in Chicago on June 14, 2025. The venue is located at 175 N State St, IL, 60601. The Cancionera Tour promises to be a captivating musical experience for fans of the talented singer-songwriter. Don't miss this opportunity to witness Natalia Lafourcade's unique blend of Latin American music in the heart of Chicago.

Welcome to the **FTG CHICAGO AUDITIONS**! Are you ready to showcase your talents and take your passion to the next level? Join us on **Tue Jun 17 2025** at **2141 W 95th St** for a day filled with excitement and opportunities. Whether you're a singer, dancer, actor, or all of the above, this is your chance to shine! Don't miss out on this incredible experience to **audition** in person and show us what you've got. We can't wait to see your talent! See you there! Information Source: eventbrite

Don't miss Key Glock on his GLOCKAVELI Tour presented by SiriusXM's Hip-Hop Nation in Chicago at the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom on June 24, 2025. The event promises an unforgettable night of hip-hop music at 1106 W Lawrence, IL, 60640. Be sure to secure your tickets and experience the energetic performance in this iconic venue.

Get ready for a night of laughter with Daniel Tosh Live at The Chicago Theatre on June 25, 2025. Located at 175 N State St, IL, 60601, this event promises to deliver an unforgettable comedy experience in the vibrant city of Chicago. Fans can expect an evening filled with Tosh's trademark humor and wit, guaranteed to leave the audience in stitches. Don't miss out on this opportunity to see one of the comedy world's most popular and beloved performers live on stage.

Stenn began collecting art with his wife, Marcia, in 1971, largely as a way of enhancing their newly renovated Lincoln Park home. Although neither had formal art training, she had a discerning eye, and he enjoyed the hunt for the right object. Together they approached the project as a shared learning activity, and in time, they acquired paintings and sculpture by significant artists of the post-World War II period.