The Chicago Reader named the Kehrein Center for the Arts the "best new west-side arts space" in their "Best of Chicago" series in a March 2022 article by Robert Marovich.
An excerpt from the article reads:
"The Kehrein Center for the Arts advocates for social justice through music, theater, dance, spoken word, film, visual arts, and other forms of creative expression by local and national artists. In its first few months, the 850-seat auditorium presented performances of classical music, gospel, and musical theater, including concerts by Catalyst Circle Rock’s Sistema Ravinia Orchestra, one of the nation’s only such ensembles consisting entirely of African American middle-school students."