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day — Club Arcada , St . Charles ; Rematch / Neutral Soap / Risk — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Frequency Series Presents : Shi-An Costello and Michael Hall — Constelllation , Chicago ; Salsa Sunday — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Christmas Wizards — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Jazz Consortium — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Clinic Stars / Cancer House / Maiuscula — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Flat Five — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Holiday Family Singalong ( 10am ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Donald Neale — Four Winds Casino , South Bend , IN ; Martini — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , South Bend , IN ; Jack Cunningham — Four Winds Casino - Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Holidawgs Photo Studio & Market ( 4pm ) — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; Joel Paterson Christmas — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Disney Tribute : The Little Mermen ( 3pm ) — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Steve Brown — Improv , Schaumburg ; Greg Ward — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Punk Movies — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Franc D ' Ambrosio NY Christmas — Lyric Theater , Blue Island ; Ansa — Madcats , Palatine ; OMi Winter Student Showcase — Madcats , Palatine ; The Hoyle Brothers ( 3pm ) — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Bettye LaVette — Old Town School , Chicago ; The Let It Snow Show ( 11am ) — Old Town School , Chicago ; Zachary Sonny Edwards — Pollyanna , Roselle ; Theo Lawrence / Willly Tea Taylor — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Joliet American Legion Band — Rialto Sqaure Theatre , Joliet ; Bonzo Squad Christmas — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; NUT- CRACKER ! Magical Christmas Ballet — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Aaryan Shah — Schubas , Chicago ; Queen : 4AM NYC / Lezbian Minnelli — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Robert Ellis / Joe Pug — Space , Evanston ; Hannah Bahng — Subterranean , Chicago ; School of Rock Chicago West — Subterranean , Chicago ; Fast Fashion / M-80s — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Rock and Roll Playhouse / Mr . Blotto — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Brett Eldredge — The Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Album Covers plays Exile On Main Street — The Venue , Aurora ; Randy Feltface — Vic Theatre , ChIcago ; School of Rock Glen Ellyn — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; DJ Ritsman — Whistler , Chicago ; Steve Rannazisi — Zanies , Chicago ; Jim Flannigan — Zanies , Rosemont .
MONDAY 9 DECEMBER
All Music Trivia — Alive One , Chicago ; 103.5 KISS FM ’ s Jingle Ball — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Blueshift Big Band — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Irish Music Session — Chicago Street Pub , Joliet ; The Englisl Beat — City Winery ,
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Chicago ; Music Bingo — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Jenni Stark / Local Memory / Dan Durley — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Andrew Bird / Mary Lattimore : Gezelligheid Concerts — Fourth Presbyterian Church , ChIcago ; Joel Patterson — Green Mill , Chicago ; Human Rhythm Project — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Open Mic & Jam — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Chicago Moth Storyslam — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Zak Fedor & Blake Burkhardt ( Acoustic / Comedy / Open Mic ) — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Bingo with Tyler — Reggies - Roof Deck , Chicago ; Everything Yes / C . H . E . F . — Schubas , Chicago ; Mr Sun — Space , Evanston ; Singo — Tailgaters , Chicago ; Girl in Red — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Ellie Orland — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 10
Music Bingo — Alive One , Chicago ; Windy City Ramblers — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Cage The Elephant — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Indie Music Night ( Rock ‘ N Ravioli ) — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Chicago Sound Collective — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; The Downbeat Podcast — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Holiday Bingo with Aunt Nance — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Voices in Power — City Winery , Chicago ; Fifty Fifty — Copernicus Center , Chicago ; Singo — Corrigan ' s , Shorewood ; Indie Music Nite ( Bourbon N ' Brass ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Singo — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Uniform / Pharmakon / True Body — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenflow , Geneva ; Voicebox : Cathy Richardson — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Andrew Bird / Mary Lattimore : Gezelligheid Concerts — Fourth Presbyterian Church , ChIcago ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Heritage Jazz Holday — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Andrew Sa ’ s Lonesome Holiday — Hideout , Chicago ; Recession Seven — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; PechaKucha Vol . 62 — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; No Mas / Volencia / Melting Rot / End It All — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Karaoke — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Freak Slug / Smut — Schubas , Chicago ; Ally Venable — Space , Evanston ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Mono / Nina Nastasia — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Pete Ellman Big Band with Hinsdale Central High School — The Venue , Aurora ; Bonzo Squad — Whistler , Chicago ; Kabir Dalawari Quintet — Whistler , Chicago ; Dan Cass — Zanies , Chicago .
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WEDNESDAY 11
Read Some Shit — Alive One , Chicago ; Andrea Bocelli — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Charles Heath / Jam Session — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; All- American Rejects — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; In Her Own Words / Telltale / Sierra Annie — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Splice Series — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Stefan Hillesheim Band & Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Host the Jam — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Whaddayaknow Trivia — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Jazz is Dead — City Winery , Chicago ; Gavn — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Joyce Manor / Algernon Cadwallader / Liquid Mike — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Christmas is Here Lunch with Diva Montell ( Bourbon ‘ N Brass ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Live Jazz & Blues ( Bourbon ‘ N Brass ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Music Bingo — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Lightning Bolt — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; It ' s a Wonderful Life Viewing — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chris Greene Quartet — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Happy Hour : Charlie Brown Christmas — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Andrew Bird / Mary Lattimore : Gezelligheid Concerts — Fourth Presbyterian Church , ChIcago ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; First Person Live — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Andrew Sa ’ s Lonesome Holiday — Hideout , Chicago ; Ally Venable Band / Derek Caruso and the Blues Fuse — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Machine Girl — House of Blues , Chicago ; Jam Session — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Chirp Radio Presents The First Time : First Day — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Acoustic Open Mic — Mirage , Schiller Park ; Folk You — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; MFX / DJ See Nolan — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Tower of Power — Rialto Sqaure Theatre , Joliet ; Donna Herula Trio — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddlle Up , Aurora ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Jeffrey Foucault / Erik Koskinen — Space , Evanston ; Christ Dillinger / Acid Souljah / Tenkay — Subterranean , Chicago ; ML Buch / Dorothy Carlos — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Cage The Elephant / Badflower — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Pete Ellman Big Band Christmas — The Venue , Aurora ; Vinyl Wednesdays — Will County Brewing , Shorewood ; Calvin Evans — Zanies , Chicago ; Tiago Santineli – In Portuguese ( 9pm ) — Zanies , Chicago .
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THURSDAY 12
Dancing Queen — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Open Mic — Alibi Pub , Wonder Lake ; Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; Pentatonix : Hallelujah ! It ’ s A Christmas — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Sabertooth / Pro Jam — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Smashing Pumpkins — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Bad Medicine — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Open Mic — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Karaoke — Austin ' s , Libertyville ; Jack Moony & The Sun Drops / Kacie Brown and the Vision
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/ DogBod — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Open Mic — Black Lung Brewing , Round Lake Beach ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band & Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Vino Louden — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Silvertone / And I , You / Fin Talbot — Chop Shop , Chicago ; I Ya Toyah — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Hemlock (' 444 ' Album Release Show )/ Tenci — Constelllation , Chicago ; Alix Natalya Fogarty Christmas Show — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Snow Business : A Holiday Spectacular — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; PBJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; It ' s a Wonderful Life Viewing — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Happy Hour : Charlie Brown Christmas — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Electric Cars — Four Winds Casino - Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Pamela Rocha — Four Winds Casino - Grille , South Bend , IN ; Andrew Bird / Mary Lattimore : Gezelligheid Concerts — Fourth Presbyterian Church , ChIcago ; Natalie Grant & Danny Gokey — Genesee Theatre , Waukegan ; Cult Canyon / Wuji Bop — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Celtic Christmas — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; TAE & The Neighborly — Hideout , Chicago ; Chicago Comedy Club — House of Blues – Foundation Room , Chicago ; Mike Maxwell — Improv , Schaumburg ; Jukebox Mafia — Jamo ' s Live , Mokena ; Corey Wilkes — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Open Mic & Jam — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Karaoke — Madcats , Palatine ; DC & The Love — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Karaoke — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; B-Side Conspircy / Suz & The Good Kids / Orange Element — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Songs of Good Cheer : Holiday Caroling Party with Mary Schmich and Eric Zorn — Old Town School , Chicago ; Two Runner — Old Town School - Szold Hall , Chicago ; EMO Night — Pollyanna , Lemont ; Simply Elton / Ben Harris ( Ben Folds ) — Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Ugly Lovers / Surf Candy / The Larvettes — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Molde / Primal Code / Obscene / Warp Chamber — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Peach Jam — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Acoustic Christmas — Rochaus , West Dundee ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddlle Up , Aurora ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; Morpho / Rat Tally / Sprite — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Dan Rodriguez — Space , Evanston ; 2nd Annual Holiday Recital : Diet Lite / Damager / Chapped Lips / TCNM — Subterranean , Chicago ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Claudia Simonetti ' s Goblin — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The All-American Rejects — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Will Moseley & Colin Stough / Dawson Slade — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Kane Brown / Paul Russell / Nightly — The Salt Shed , Chicago ; Gary Hoey Rockin ’ Holiday Show — The Venue , Aurora ; The Bunny The Bear / The Heist of the Century — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Gianmarco Soresi — Zanies , Chicago ; Vince Marttino — Zanies , Rosemont .
FRIDAY 13
The 1985 — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; DJ Boathouse —
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