Heights ; Club ' 90s — House of Blues , Chicago ; Bitter Ball for Broken Hearts — House of Blues - Foundation Room , Chicago ; Frank Foster — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Bandapalooza — Joe ' s on Weed Street , Chicago ; Kaash Paige / Amari Noelle — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Anthony Padilla Trio — Madcats , Palatine ; Tributosaurus becomes Stevie Wonder — Martyrs , Chicago ; EPEX — Metro , Chicago ; Marlon & The Shakes — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Funk Brothers Band — Old Republic , Elgin ; Lotus — Park West , Chicago ; Comstock Lode — Polyanna Brewing , Lemont ; Books & Blues — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Pinata Protest / Get Dead / The Stickups / Noogy + 5 Bands ( 4pm ) — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Dirty Streets / 20 Watt Tombstone / Railway Gamblers — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Drew Lynch — Rialto Square Theatre , Joliet ; CIVL Fest : Erin Coburn — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dance Lessons — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Agua / DJ Iggy / DJ Chava — Schubas , Chicago ; Libido Funk Circus — Shakers , Ottawa ; Mackenzie O ' Brien — Skooter ' s Roadhouse , Shorewood ; Don Crescendo — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Marie Davidson / Justin Aulis Long / Lorelei — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Drew & Elle Holcomb — SPACE , Evanston ; Fly Siifu / DJ Stacy — Subterranean , Chicago ; Parachute Day / Inoculous / Snooze / Untold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Chicago Tribute Anthology — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Will Wilcox — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Badass Phoenix — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Wine & Crime — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Primordial Bitch / Em Grace / Constant Headache / Turbo Mother — The Burlington , Chicago ; Interview Show with Mark Bazer : John Langford / Juan Martinez — The Hideout , Chicago ; Babytron — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Banda Corona Del Rey / Los Coroneles / El Malo — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Mr . Blotto — The Venue , Aurora ; Danny Vintage Aftershow — The Vixen , McHenry ; Fool House ( 8:30pm ) — The Vixen , McHenry ; Park N ' Ride — Untitled , Chicago ; Dread I Dread / Kinky P — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Jaime Wolf & Lucas Zelnick — Zanies , Chicago ; April Macie — Zanies , Rosemont .
Giving Moon / Robot Heart Throb / Wyatt Waddell / The Fundamental Kink — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Wine & Crime — City Winery , Chicago ; Anatomy of Habit : " Black Openings " Album Release — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Bow & Spear / You Folk / Sleepwalk — Coles , Chicago ; Walker & Royce / VNSSA / Lady D — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Wild & Sublime — Constellation , Chicago ; Sheena Easton & Taylor Dayne — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Karaoke — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Rok Brigade / Infinity — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Anchors Away / DJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Chicago Divas — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Valentine ' s with Miss Jamie ( Kids Show 10am ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Groove Witness — FitzGerald ' s - Sidebar , Berwyn ; DJ — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , New Buffalo , MI ; PS Dump Your Boyfriend — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Playback — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grille , South Bend , IN ; Kashmir ( Led Zeppelin Show ) — Granada Theatre , Mount Vernon , IL ; Paper Machete — Green Mill , Chicago ; Head Honchos — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Joanna Connor ( 7:30pm ) — Hard Rock Casino - Hard Rock Cafe , Gary , IN ; Ronnie Baker Brooks ( 9:30pm ) — Hard Rock Casino - Hard Rock Cafe , Gary , IN ; Abbey Road : Beatles Tribute — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Sin Anestesia — House of Blues , Chicago ; Brass from the Past — Impact Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Bad Bunny Dance Party — Joe ' s on Weed Street , Chicago ; Babytron / Shitty Boyz / Daboii — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Murley — Madcats , Palatine ; Annual New Loves & Broken Hearts Valentines Ball : Nocturna ( 11pm ) — Metro , Chicago ; Moon Money — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; SunnDog / King Rabbit / Curious Grace & Black Rabbit — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Hi Infidelity — Old Republic , Elgin ; Tannahill Weavers — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Valentine Dancea-Long Song Party ( Noon ) — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Melvin Seals & JGB — Park West , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Piazza , Aurora ; Mark Taylor — Polyanna Brewing , Lemont ; Comstock Lode — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Billy Denton — Polyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Lower Class Brats / Fear City / The Subversives / Rotten Sticthes + 8 Bands ( 1pm ) — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Michael Johnson / Michael Robinson ( Midnight ) — Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Shanghai Quitian / The Courts — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; John Primer & The Real Deal — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; In The Stix — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Felix Rabito / Saint Dismas / Trenches — Schubas , Chicago ; Hairband Night — Skooter ' s Roadhouse , Shorewood ; Global Swing presents : Jovonn / Garrett David / Esoe — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Drew & Elle Holcomb — SPACE , Evanston ; Beat The Meatles / Dr . Unk / Deepspecebro — Subterranean , Chicago ; Hope Fiend / The Tragedies / Eve Black — Subterranean , Chicago ; Sunday Cruise / Calicoloco / Calco Plaid — Subterranean , Chicago ; Heart & Benatar Tributes — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Crash Trio — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Tribute to Ozzfest — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Divino Niro / Video Age / Lutalo — Thalia Hall ,
Chicago ; Thy Art is Murder / Kublai / Kahn TX / Undeath — The Forge , Joliet ; HunterGirl — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Gerald McClendon — The Venue , Aurora ; DJ Ack Aftershow — The Vixen , McHenry ; Demetria Taylor Band — Untitled , Chicago ; Token / Ben Reilly / Marco Plus — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Dread I Dread / DJ G Sharp — Wild Hare , Chicago ; After Hours Comedy ( 11pm ) — Zanies , Chicago ; Jaime Wolf & Lucas Zelnick — Zanies , Chicago ; April Macie — Zanies , Rosemont .
SUNDAY 12
Comedy Open Mic / Crushes — Alive One , Chicago ; Andy Brown — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Win Noll — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Brunch & Beats with Mr . Dave ( 11am ) — City Winery , Chicago ; Eleri Ward — City Winery , Chicago ; DJ Jivan Ivan — Coles , Chicago ; Salsa Sundays — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Jazz Consortium — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Piwa / Frida Kashta / Linda Sol — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow , Geneva ; Shout Section Big Band — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Jimmy Fastiggi — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; LaLa ' s Burlesque — Impact Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Hoyle Brothers ( 3pm ) — Martyrs , Chicago ; Super Bowl — Old Republic , Elgin ; Super Bowl Bash — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Old Town School Blues Band Showcase & Graduation — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Atticus Lazenby / Jake Hawrylak / Crofton — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Peter Green ' s Fleetwood Mac tribute — SPACE , Evanston ; Astro Ever After / Los Black Dogs — The Burlington , Chicago ; Best 2 U — Wild Hare , Chicago .
TUESDAY 14
Abney Effect — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; America — Arcada , St . Charles ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Pop Up Karaoke — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Glamontrix : Dita Von Teese — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Sheila E . And The E-Train — City Winery , Chicago ; Candy / Fleshwater / Division of Mind — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Imphormal — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Danny Ocean — House of Blues , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Paul Abella — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Dan Navarro — Schubas , Chicago ; Phil Angotti Beatles Love Songs — SPACE , Evanston ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke — Tavern on LaGrange , Countyside ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Pete Ellman Big Band with Matea Valley HS — The Venue , Aurora ; Simply Elton / Mad Hatter Valentine ' s Show — The Vixen , McHenry ; Calvin Evans — Zanies , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 15
Charles " Rick " Heath — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; NAV — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Splice Series — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sxmpra & Lilbubblegum — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band with Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Central Cee — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Brother John Kattke : Open Jam — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Ana Popovic — City Winery , Chicago ; Comedy Open Mic — Coles , Chicago ; America — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; The Mall / WAD — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Miles Nielsen & Kelly Steward — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; We Came as Romans — House of Blues , Chicago ; Adore Delano / Bev Rage & The Drinks — Metro , Chicago ; Singer / Songwriter Night — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Chicago Latin Brass Ensemble — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Music Bingo — Polyanna Brewing , Lemont ; Music Bingo — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Jaon Kane & The Jive — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Skooter ' s Idol — Skooter ' s Roadhouse , Shorewood ; Samuel Aaron / Greg Freeman / Snake Pond — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Bella White — SPACE , Evanston ; Inayah — Subterranean , Chicago ; Line Dance Lessons / DJ Artie — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; The 502s / Fresh Squeezed /
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SATURDAY 11
DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Eric Schneider — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Always Olivia — Arcada , St . Charles ; Sonny James — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Bluegrass Brunch — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Snuzfest 2023 — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express with Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Consume The Divide / Bullet to The Heart / Chains Over Razors — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Diva Drag Brunch ( Noon ) — Brauerhouse - BHouse , Lombard ; Lloyd Snyder — Bub City , Chicago ; Strawdawg — Bub City , Rosemont ; Altered Five — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Sarah Silverman — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; The
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All Music Trivia — Alive One , Chicago ; Blueshift Big Band — Andy ' s
Jazz , Chicago ; The White Buffalo — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Sheila E . And
The E-Train — City Winery , Chicago ; No Star / Javier Reyes / Engine Summer — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Joel Paterson & Friends — Green Mill ,
Chicago ; Chicago Moth Storyslam — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic
— Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Karaoke — On The Roxx , Portage , IN ;
Teenage Bottlerocket / Raging Nathans / Won ' t Stay Dead — Reggies -
Club , Chicago ; Music & Sports Trivia / Bingo with Tyler — Reggies -
Roof Deck , Chicago ; Ashley Kutcher — Schubas , Chicago ; Cocoa
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Tavern on LaGrange , Countyside ; Sketchup IV — Zanies , Chicago .
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