Submissions due the 15th of the preceding month, for example, December listings by November 15th.
Mail to Illinois Entertainer, 4223 W. Lake, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60624, fax (773) 717-5666, or
e-mail [email protected]. All dates subject to change; please contact venues to verify.
MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
Tenry Johns/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Patricia
Barber Quartet — Green Mill, Chicago; Stryper (30th
Anniversary Tour) — House of Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison/
JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; PigPen Theater Co. — Old Town School, Chicago;
Improv Night/Open Mic — Quenchers, Chicago; Music Trivia/
Bingo w/Burke — Reggie’s, Chicago; King Magnetic/R.A. The
Rugged Man — Subterranean, Berwyn.
TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER
Troye Sivan — Aragon, Chicago; Chicago Underground Comedy —
Beat Kitchen, Chicago; BTS Express w/Laretha Weathersby —
Blue Chicago, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City,
Rosemont; Ronnie Hicks — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Ronnie Hicks — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; St. Paul & The
Broken Bones — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Flobots w/BoneLang
and Obala — City Winery, Chicago; Secrets, Lies & Alibis — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Enthralling Cavalcade of Remarkable
Anybodies, Special Somebodies and Incredible Everybodies —
Empty Bottle, Chicago; Open Jam Night — Evenflow Music &
Spirits, Geneva; Open Mic/Larry McCray — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn;
The Fat Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Joshua Abrams & Natural
Information Society — Hideout, Chicago; Asking Alexandria —
House of Blues, Chicago; Superfly Redneck — JW Hollstein’s,
Tinley Park; Giles Corey Blues/Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Chicago Sinfonietta — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Grace
Beechy Music — Mackell’s Inn, Chicago; Yankee Blood/Tatiana
Hazel — Martyrs’, Chicago; Wit Rabbit Reading Series/Bobco
Open Mic — Quenchers, Chicago; Mr. Blotto — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Pete Galanis & Friends feat. Dave Herrero — Rosa’s, Chicago;
Red Wanting Blue — Schubas, Chicago; Open Mic Hip Hop —
Subterranean, Chicago; St. Paul & The Broken Bones w/Diane
Coffee — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Austin Manuel/Two Carolines/
Lonesome Planets — The Burlington, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER
Big Head Todd & The Monsters/Mud Morganfield/Billy Branch
/Ronnie Baker Brooks — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Open Mic
w/Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Medicine Woman
Live/Drea Smith/Via Rosa/Ravyn Lenae/Lulu Be/Jean Deaux/
DJ Ambi — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/Demetria Taylor
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; BLUES Jam w/Big Ray & Chicago’s
Most Wanted — BLUES, Chicago; Judson Brown Dueling Strings
— Bub City, Chicago; The Special 20’s — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Brendan James w/Paul Loren — City Winery, Chicago;
Watsky w/Witt Lowry/ Daye Jack/Chukwudi Hodge (DJ) —
Concord, Chicago; Peter Evans/Sam Pluta/Ben LaMar Gay/
Katherine Young — Constellation, Chicago; Goodbyemot El/El
Chupacabro/Church Bassment/Open Mic/Laughing LIberally
Chicago — Elbo Room, Chicago; Protomartyr/The Gotobeds/
Order Midnight — Empty Bottle, Chicago; New Standard Quartet
/Gurf Morlix/Matthew Francis Andersen — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn;
Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan/Late Night w/Frank Catalano
Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Rachel Dean & Tim Gray/Dr.
Lawrence Atop’s Journey to The Polygon of Suffering Feat. Fruit
Stare band — Hideout, Chicago; Belanova — House of Blues,
Chicago; Corey Dennison/Mike Wheeler/Peaches Staten —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Jens Lekman — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
St. Mojo/Blind Trust/Villa Avenue — Martyrs’, Chicago; Pablo
Sainz Villegas (Latino Music Festival) — Old Town School,
Chicago; Owen Hemming/Cody Tracey/Julianne Q & The Band
— Quenchers, Chicago; Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings —
Rosa’s, Chicago; Secret Comedy Show — Schubas, Chicago;
Reckless Kelly — Space, Evanston; Screaming Females/As Is —
Subterranean, Chicago; The Weepies — Thalia Hall, Chicago; The
By Gods/Axons/Bear Pit — The Burlington, Chicago; Marianne
Sullivan Open Mic — Tilted Kilt, Bolingbrook; Wrekmeister
Harmonies — Township, Chicago; Bonfires/The Millenium/4
Door Theater/The Stolen — Wire, Berwyn.
THURSDAY 3
Charlie Daniels Band w/Cranford Hollow — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; Pig Champion/Endmember/Roman Ring/Sarin — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; The Deutsch Meisters — Berghoff Oktoberfest,
Chicago; Maurice John Vaughan Blues Band w/Shirley Johnson
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Big Dan & Friends — BLUES, Chicago;
Jagwar Ma/Klangstof — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; October Road
— Bub City, Rosemont; Lionell Young — Buddy Guy’s Legen