If it wasn't for Steppenwolf ensemble member Jon Michael Hill's stellar performance, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu's ...

Blue,” the opera by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson, was to be part of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019–20 season, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amid ongoing talks to close Chicago’s projected $982.4 million budget deficit in fiscal year 2025, City Council batted back Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase to help ...