Post-pandemic, ‘crisis’ in Chicago’s cultural arts scene is real, new report finds – Chicago Sun-Times

Overall, attendance in all categories of guests picked up in 2022, but it was still down 60 percent from pre-pandemic levels. Overall in-person attendance drops at performing arts venues for the four-year period was far more severe — 59 percent — than at museums — 14 percent, the report found. Museums were able to open their doors earlier, have “flexible entry times” and better control the flow of visitors, according to the study.