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Chicago Aspiring Artist: Landscape Drawing Basics

Mon 26 Oct, 11:00

WCX6+W6 Chicago

🎨 Learn to Sketch – Just a Pencil and Paper Sit down at your own table with a pencil and some paper. The class starts at this event's start time, and everyone in the session draws along together. This session is Landscapes: trees, hills,…

Free

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FJORD

Mon 26 Oct, 17:30

Gene Siskel Film Center

Opens October 24 | Palme d’Or winner director Cristian Mungiu returns with his first English-language feature, a thought-provoking family drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. The Gheorghius, a devout family led by Romanian…

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OFF CENTER: APICHATPONG SHORTS

Mon 26 Oct, 18:00

Gene Siskel Film Center

Monday, October 26, 6:00 p.m. | A prolific maker of short films in addition to his acclaimed features, Apichatpong Weerasthakul (MFA 1998, HON 2011) graces our screens once again with a personal and poetic program of shorts including some…

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The Silence of the Lambs | Movie Nights at Sapta's - VI

Mon 26 Oct, 18:30

605 W Madison St

The Silence of the Lambs "Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars…

Free

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October Book Club

Mon 26 Oct, 19:00

George Street Pub

Join us for spooky month! This month’s book is *Something Wicked This Way Comes.* This 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience…

Free

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Not That Late Show

Mon 26 Oct, 19:30

Hideout Chicago

What happens when two of City Council’s most dynamic progressives sit down for a conversation... and then agree to eat increasingly ridiculous hot wings? We’re about to find out. Join Alderpeople Daniel La Spata and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth…

Free

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FJORD

Mon 26 Oct, 20:00

Gene Siskel Film Center

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EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE)

Mon 26 Oct, 20:30

Gene Siskel Film Center

A triumph at the Berlin Film Festival, this revelatory debut is a heartrending portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on 16mm film, EYIMOFE traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers as they bump up…