Cianna Greaves

Mar 20, 2025 | wbez.org | Mary Dixon |Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

If you’re a fan of artists like Vampire Weekend, Fall Out Boy or Jenny Lewis, chances are that you’ve heard Greta Morgan’s music live. Morgan’s band The Hush Sound — which toured with Fall Out Boy while Morgan was still a suburban Illinois high schooler — signed on to Pete Wentz’s label DCD2 Records (then Decaydance Records) in the mid-aughts. She went on to create a number of projects, from solo band Springtime Carnivore to a punk cover album with LA rocker Katy Goodman.

Feb 25, 2025 | wbez.org | Cianna Greaves

The Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition is open at the Museum of Science and Industry through April 27. The show features more than 150 works from artists across the country, but one is a teen competition featuring art from Chicago-area students. The artworks range from photography to woodworking. But this year’s Best in Show in the teen category goes to an oil painting by 17-year-old Javiyah Israel, a senior at Homewood Flossmoor High School.

Feb 6, 2025 | chicago.suntimes.com | Matt Moore |Kaitlin Washburn |Kade Heather |Cianna Greaves

Since Friday, hundreds of dead and sick birds have been found along Lake Michigan’s shore — all likely infected with bird flu. It’s the latest in a string of deaths and infections in and around Chicago. Nationwide, outbreaks of the virus, also called H5N1 or avian flu, have decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds, my colleague Kaitlin Washburn reports. In today’s newsletter, we’ll fill you in on what you need to know about this illness.

Feb 5, 2025 | inkl.com | Kaitlin Washburn |Kade Heather |Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

Nationwide, outbreaks of the virus, also called H5N1 or avian flu, have decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds, my colleague Kaitlin Washburn reports. In today's newsletter, we'll fill you in on what you need to know about this illness. Plus, we've got reporting on Chicago's federal transit money troubles, a history-making Art Institute exhibit and more community news you need to know below.

Jan 24, 2025 | chicago.suntimes.com | Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

The Art Institute of Chicago’s “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical objects and ephemera spanning a century. As you travel room to room, the seldom-heard voice of Marcus Garvey and soothing contemplations of Audre Lorde wash over you.