Elphaba's emerald gown and Hamilton's ball gowns leave the Griffin Museum after Monday. Admission is free with entry.

The free, ADA-accessible festival returns to 875 North Michigan Avenue Sept. 19-20, now running twice a year for the first time.

Eleven veteran artists take over Elmhurst Art Museum through January, pairing old deployment photos with Vietnam-era antiwar archives.

Tickets to the Manhattan Short Film Festival at the Glen Art Theatre fund four College of DuPage scholarships awarded by AAUW Wheaton-Glen Ellyn.

Banda Carnaval headlines the 13th annual festival, with proceeds again funding Latino college scholarships.

Threads of a Nation opens October 24 with George Washington's inaugural coat and Mary Todd Lincoln's bloodstained cape.

The 1926 movie palace marks its centennial Sept. 6 with a downtown parade, a Priscilla Presley Q&A, and a rock history revue.

Poet Fatimah Asghar keynoted the South Asia Institute's daylong debut, which packed in 23 writers and a closing DJ reception.

East Aurora High School hosts 60 touring artists on September 7 - but seating requires advance signup.

A four-panel mural now covers boarded-up windows on Otto Boulevard, part of a push to revive downtown Chicago Heights.

Thousands of LED candles and a string quintet reimagine “Bootylicious” and “Survivor” inside a hotel built for the 1893 World's Fair.

Shirley Caesar and Leela James headline the Labor Day weekend festival, which now spans nearly 300 vendor booths.

Wrigley Field lore gets the graphic-novel treatment as the Cubs join Yankees and Dodgers in a new collectible comic line.