A slightly reduced admission fee increase for the Art Institute of Chicago. After weeks of huffing and puffing from Ald. Ed Burke, the Chicago Park District Board, who sets the admission price, voted to increase adult admission from $12 to $16 instead of the proposed $18 and students/seniors admission from $8 to $10. One added bonus: they also raised the age limit for free child admission from 12 years to 14 years. [AP via WBBM] more ›

This month's VICE party at Hideout is going to be PACKED! Matt & Kim are the headliners, and we're beginning to think they might be more popular with the dance-rock kids in our fair city than anywhere else. They certainly get shown enough love for their simple keyboard and drum driven tunes whenever they play here. Perhaps it's because their songs are driven by a certain jubilant innocence that is currently so in vogue in Chicago's party scene today? Perhaps it's because even the most jaded and angry youth have a hard time listening to anything off the duo's self-titled debut without cracking a big ol' up-with-people style smile? Perhaps a clue can be found in shared bills with like-minded day-glo dance duo Flosstradamus? more ›