Datebook
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Datebook features interviews and behind-the-scenes reports about new art exhibits, music releases and live performances, theater productions, and other community and charity events taking place throughout the listening area.
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Latest Datebook stories
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Biographer and historian Guy Fraker will give a talk about Ann Rutledge, rumored to be Abraham Lincoln's first sweetheart. -
The Normal Theater has shown thousands and thousands of films since it opened 88 years ago. But one galactic trilogy has never graced the iconic Uptown marquee. -
The concert concludes Logan Campbell's second full year on the podium after decades of leadership by Deanne Bryant. Campbell sought to keep the positive culture of the youth orchestra — while upping the rigor and repertoire. -
A plethora of Easter egg hunts are on tap for the weekend, plus the tail end of Heartland Theatre's living room comedy 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.' -
Photographer and filmmaker Jason Lindsey first started sugar making during the pandemic as a way to get over the winter-spring hump. The centuries' old practice is threatened by climate change — capturing in his short film, 'It's Time.' -
Ecology Action Center has organized two service days this Earth Month cleaning up plastic waste in McLean County. The first is this Saturday at ISU Farm in Lexington. -
Music was on the back burner for the Redbird goal-tender until a few years ago. Jenny Scara is now all in, forging a career in Chicago. -
It's been a busy year for ISU bands. Their latest collaboration invites a Chicago mariachi band onstage with the Wind Symphony for Sunday's concert. -
In his first solo gallery show, artist Trevor Basham departs from his typical style inspired by American Traditional tattooing. "Hardcore Bubblegum" leans New School. -
Music industry expert and Public Image Ltd drummer Martin Atkins is coming to University Galleries to give a free public talk about Chicago’s music ecosystem.
