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NATO Protest
The NATO summit is being held in Chicago this weekend and the protesters have taken to the streets in advance of their arrival. The pre-arranged protests begin tomorrow but in the meantime there’s been some [...]
Joe Sherry on Glass Blowing
UE recently followed Joe Sherry to the Chicago Hot Glass studios in west Humboldt Park. I was especially excited to shoot the segment because the art of blowing glass involves torches, flames and holes of [...]
Lesson 1: Life Ain’t Fair
[Editor's Note: UE's 'Life Lessons' series will focus on life lessons learned from Jeff & Scott, two brothers, raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan.] “Life ain’t fair,” my mom once explained to me at a young age. [...]
The Vanishing Courtroom Artist
Chicago is home to a Byzantine network of courtrooms that preside over issues ranging from high-level federal appeals all the way down to the most mundane traffic offenses. Some of these courtrooms are wonderfully ornate, [...]
Letter from Editor
I want to begin by thanking you for visiting the new UE 2.0. I designed this website to better showcase multimedia content that was often lost in navigation. The new UE represents a more simplified [...]
Blue Escape
Watch UE’s other exclusive videos with Willis Earl Beal. Want to share or embed the video? here’s the link on youtube.
Sharkula Oral History
Sharkula tells his oral history exclusively to UE. Watch the featured 2 part series.
Hideout Blockparty
Chicago’s Hideout is a famed place, so famed in fact that if you were to ask a random Chicagoan a story about the Hideout you’re likely to get a 10 minute recitation on one of [...]
Pre-Thanksgiving
The trees are falling bare of their leaves and Christmas lights have started blooming instead. As the reality of darkness after work sets in, it’s a sign of the season – the holiday season – [...]
Fall Camping
As much as we love all things metropolitan (and especially Chicago) here at UrbanEyez.com, there are a few times a year when Mayor Daley’s planted medians and streetscape tree grates become the ultimate conforming bore, [...]
The Ghost of Bob Ross
Q&A with the Ghost of Bob Ross: [Editors Note: We recently had the esteemed pleasure of sitting down with the Ghost of Bob Ross (inset) for a quick Q&A. Coincidentally, Bob Ross was also the [...]
Theory of a Mad Man
It was like any other day. I woke up and quietly slipped out of bed, attempting not to wake the lobotomized hooker passed out next to me. As my clock struck noon I felt a [...]