num_pages: 256
description: Despite the onslaught of sports bars, celebrity restaurants, and Bob Greene columns, Chicago remains one of the world's great artistic meccas. With more jazz clubs, art galleries, poetry slams, theater groups, film festivals, and rock venues than there are performers to fill them, opportunities abound for all creative types to live, work, and create in this Paris of the Midwest - if they know the right places to look.This is the insider's guide for anyone looking to make it in the Windy City arts scene. Whether your field is art, poetry, dance, comedy, film, theater, literature, opera, jazz, or rock 'n' roll, this hitchhiker's guide to Chicago's arts galaxy tells you where to go, who to talk to, and how to get gigs, showings, auditions, productions, openings, and more.
language: English
title: The Madness of Art: A Guide to Living and Working in Chicago
titlecomplete: The Madness of Art: A Guide to Living and Working in Chicago
publisher: Chicago Review Pr