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Green Mill, Chicago; Madman Duo — Harp & Fiddle, Park Ridge;
Late Night Breakfast/Dead River Revival — Hideout, Chicago;
Gina Glocksen Band — Hollywood Casino, Aurora; Hillbilly
Rockstarz — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Stabbing Westward
Anniversary Tour/Breezy Rodio/Corey Dennison — House of
Blues, Chicago; Whiskeyfist — Huntley Bowl, Huntley; Alt 101 —
Jake’s on Tap, Palos Heights; Alfredo Rodriquez Trio — Jazz
Showcase, Chicago; DJ Jeff Overstreet — Jimmy’s Grill,
Naperville; The Ron Burgundy’s — Joe’s Bar, Chicago; Bows &
Pearls — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Automatic Noise — JW Hollstein’s
Saloon, Tinley Park; Block 37 — Kerry Piper, Willowbrook;
Joanna Connor/Vance Kelly/Nora Jean Bruso — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; The Joy Formidable/Tancred — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
HiFi Superstar — M Supper Club, Crystal Lake; Kevin Purcell &
The Root Doctors — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Orgone/The
Right Now — Martyrs’, Chicago; Charlie Foxtrot/Rockin’ For
Rett Syndrome — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Anthem — Nevin’s
Brewing Co., Plainfield; Teen Open Mic/Tlen-Huicani — Old Town
School, Chicago; Face of Winter — Park West, Chicago;
Recovered — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Stevie Craig — Pig
Minds Brewing Co., Machesney Park; Lights Out All Black Affair
— Promontory Theater, Chicago; The Boy Band Night — Q-Bar,
Darien; Kashmir — Q-Bar, Glendale Heights; Donna Frost —
Ranger Studios Showcase, Franklin Park; Eliminator/Arsis —
Reggie’s, Chicago; DJ Q & DJ Erge — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines;
Kamasi Washington/Butcher Brown — Riviera Theater, Chicago;
Kinsey Report — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Los Temerarios —
Rosemont Theater, Rosemont; Ruston Kelly/Kate Pruitt —
Schubas, Chicago; Rich Jones/Leaf Set/Shawnee Dez/Mmuso
— Sleeping Village, Chicago; 23 Hour Party People/Ariel Zetina
/The Black Madonna/Olin/Eris Drew/Garrett David and more
— Smartbar, Chicago; Loudon Wainwright III/Jenny Bienemann
— Space, Evanston; Broncho/Valen/Lilly — Subterranean,
Chicago; Diver Down/Bad Medicine — Sundance Saloon,
Waukegan; C-Factor — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Lounge Puppets
— Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Soup & Whiskey — The Cottage,
Crystal Lake; Masters of Metal w/Maiden Chicago/Middle
Raged/Resurwrecktion — The Forge, Joliet; DJ Esteban La
Groue & DJ Danny Dan — The Owl, Chicago; Circa Survive/La
Dispute/Queen of Jeans — The Vic, Chicago; Graeme James w/
Alex Preston — Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago; Depeche
Mode Tribute Night — Underground Lounge, Chicago; 3 And A
Half Men/DJ & Karaoke w/Karaoke Zach — Uptown Lounge,
Chicago; The Rockin’ Eldorados — White Eagle, Niles; Fred
Barbini — Zachary’s Bar, Palos Heights; Darrell Hammond —
Zanies, Chicago & Rosemont.
MYAC Big Band — 210 Live, Highwood; Charles Heath’s Early
Risers — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Jawbreaker — Aragon
Ballroom, Chicago; Pasquale Esposito — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; Girls Night Out — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; The Whiskey
Brothers — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Death Valley Girls/
Gymshorts/Ethers — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Nellie Tiger Travis
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Spike & The Spitwads/Smokin’ Gunz
— Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Space
Eater/Fade/Fern/James Kahil/Aftersound — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Fight Like A Girl — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park;
Annie Mac — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Town Criers/
Goodbye Honolulu/Rabbit Folk — Burlington, Chicago; Jo Koy —
Chicago Theater, Chicago; A Tribe Called Red — Chop Shop/1st
Ward, Chicago; Vusi Mahlasela — City Winery, Chicago; Amy
Williams — Constellation, Chicago; Viva Polonia IV — Copernicus
Center, Chicago; Salsa Sunday w/Dia De Los Muertos Salseros
— Cubby Bear, Chicago; Barney Muggers/Mary Vaughn/Opliam
— Elbo Room, Chicago; The Cowpokes/Odonis Odonis/Grun
Wasser/Anatomy of Habit — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Chicago
Grandstand Big Band — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Ten Tenors
w/Gentleman’s Rule — Genesee Theater, Waukegan; Uptown
Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night w/Joel Paterson/Chris Foreman
— Green Mill, Chicago; Bone Wish/Junegrass/Ty Maxon —
Hideout, Chicago; Studebaker John/Mississippi Heat — House
of Blues, Chicago; Alfredo Rodriquez Trio — Jazz Showcase,
Chicago; Kingston Mines Blues Jam/Linsey Alexander/
Claudette Miller — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Ron Gall/Twen/
Ian Ferguson — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Toni Callahan & Her Jazz
Guys — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Cole Escola — Park West,
Chicago; 3XDope/Body — Promontory Theater, Chicago; Fallout
Music Festival/Brandon James Soulful Sunday — Reggie’s,
Chicago; Good Charlotte/Sleeping With Sirens/Knuckle Puck/
The Dose — Riviera Theater, Chicago; Los Temerarios —
Rosemont Theater, Rosemont; KLLO & Guest/Jenny Bienemann
(Acoustic) — Schubas, Chicago; Dustball Revival/Lindi Ortega —
Space, Evanston; The Burst and Bloom/I’m Glad It’s You —
Subterranean, Chicago; Alex G/Half Waif/Beach Bunny — Thalia
Hall, Chicago; Hoobastank/Secondhand Serenade — The Forge,
Joliet; Faux Furrs/Honeybabe/These Guys These Guys — The
Owl, Chicago; Violent Femmes/Your Smith — The Vic, Chicago;
Poor Calvin/Nikki Morgan/Fauvely/Joe Stevens/Megan Bee &
River Glen — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; DJ & Karaoke
w/Karaoke Zach — Uptown Lounge, Chicago.
MONDAY 5
Eric Schneider Quartet/Chris Green Quartet — Andy’s Jazz Club,
Chicago; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Smokin’ Gunz — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge,
Michigan City, IN; Korpiklaani & Arkona/Sioum — Bottom
Lounge, Chicago; Grace & John — Bub City, Chicago; Brother
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John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; The Audio
Dead/Friends of Cesar Romero — Burlington, Chicago; Hanson
String Theory w/Orchestra — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Mouse
on the Keys w/Tera Melos/Space Blood — Chop Shop/1st Ward,
Chicago; Katherine McPhee — City Winery, Chicago; Little Seven
& The Disciples of Soul — Copernicus Center, Chicago; Captured
Tracks X/Lina Tullgren/Wax Chattles/Drahla — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Big Bari Band — Green Mill, Chicago; Monkey Wrench
/Arish Singh — Hideout, Chicago; Joanna Connor/Nigel Mack
— House of Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison/JW Williams —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; R.LUM.R/CJ Run/Ethan Butler —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; John Mead’s Conspiracy Theories/Lexie
Levy — Martyrs’, Chicago; The Corner — Promontory Theater,
Chicago; Music Trivia/Bingo w/Burke — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Billy Raffoul/Phillip Michael Scales — Schubas, Chicago; DJ
Heather/Noncompliant/Eris Drew — Smartbar, Chicago; Trace
The Shadow — The Owl, Chicago; Laugh Till You’re Winded World
Premiere Chicago Stand-Up Comedy Documentary by Michael
Alexander — Zanies, Chicago.
TUESDAY 6
Jason Stein Quartet/After Dark Vonski Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Luke Pytel/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Wavves & Beach Fossils/Kevin Krauter — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; LIve Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont; Blue Coast Band — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Matt Bachmann/The Jellies — Burlington,
Chicago; Girls Night Out Show — Cheers, Midlothian; Peter
Asher & Jeremy Clyde — City Winery, Chicago; The Black Watch
— Elbo Room, Chicago; Open Mic — Empire, Naperville;
Oku/The Prairie Fires — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Cash Box
Kings/Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat Babies — Green
Mill, Chicago; Take Back The House Election Viewing Party —
Heartland Cafe, Chicago; Into The Future or Slouching Towards
Something Election Returns — Hideout, Chicago; Mike Wheeler
/Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Friends/Comedy Cocktail/Skyla
Burrell — House of Blues, Chicago; Wisin — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Joanna Connor/Mike Wheeler/Peaches Staten —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; The War And Treaty/Courtney Marie
Andrews — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Spark The Forest/Foxture/
Frail Body/Dust Bath — Live Wire, Chicago; Garcia Later/Kevin
Rosen — Martyrs’, Chicago; Big Shoulders Brass Band/Country
Grammar w/DJ Slow Mo — Promontory Theater, Chicago;
Karaoke — Q-Bar, Darien; Harry Potter Trivia — Q-Bar, Glendale
Heights; Mr. Blotto — Reggie’s, Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends
— Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Kevin O’Leary — Rosemont Theater,
Rosemont; Single Mothers — Schubas, Chicago; Varsity/
Poppies/Clearance — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Todd Snider/
Kevin Gordon — Space, Evanston; Open Mic Hip Hop —
Subterranean, Chicago; Toro Y Moi/Dizzy Fae — Thalia Hall,
Chicago; Josh Groban/Edina Menzel — United Center, Chicago.
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WEDNESDAY 7
Highland Park Jazz Band — 210 Live, Highwood; Andy Brown
Quartet/Mike Smith Quartet — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago;
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band/Peterson Brothers — Arcada
Theater, St. Charles; Blues Jam w/Big Ray & Chicago’s Most
Wanted — B.L.U.E.S., Chicago; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; How I Met Your Mother Trivia — Base
Camp, Lisle; The Million Reasons/Arclight/Snake Season/
Boundary Waters — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Two Fellas — Bella
Mia, Midlothian; JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Beach Fossils & Waaves/Kevin Krauter —
Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Over The Side — Bub City, Chicago;
Scott Dubose — Bub City, Rosemont; Charlie Brown — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Badwater Sound/Jake Simmons —
Burlington, Chicago; Stars & Strings — Chicago Theater,
Chicago; Bluewater Kings Band — Chop Shop/1st Ward,
Chicago; Girls Gotta Eat Podcast — City Winery, Chicago; Keith
Cobb — Club Arcada, St. Charles; Old Wounds/
SeeYouSpaceCowboy/Chamber/Luca — Cobra Lounge, Chicago;
Lary Over — Concord, Chicago; Rafiq Bhatia/Ian Chang —
Constellation, Chicago; Cold Beaches/Plasma Canvas/Mihaly/
Open Mic — Elbo Room, Chicago; Trivia Night — Empire,
Naperville; Ajani Jones & Boathouse/Lorde Fredd33/Jared
Lanell/DJ RTC — Empty Bottle, Chicago; All Night Boogie
Band/New Standard Quintet — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Paper
Machete/Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan/Late Night w/Frank
Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Peel Dream Magazine/
Desert Liminal Ruins — Hideout, Chicago; Thievery Corporation
/Keithen Banks/Joanna Connor — House of Blues, Chicago;
Corey Dennison/Giles Corey — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Nicki
Bluhm/Gill Landry — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Tributosaurus
Becomes...Jackson Browne — Martyrs’, Chicago; Jake Shears/
Ssion/Sammy Jo — Metro, Chicago; Andrew Finn Magill & Dave
Curley — Old Town School, Chicago; Jeff Lorber Fusion —
Promontory Theater, Chicago; Harry Potter Trivia Night — Q-Bar,
Darien; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie’s, Chicago; Nicholas
Barron — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Myles Parrish — Schubas,
Chicago; The Spins feat. Queen — Sleeping Village, Chicago;
John Medeski’s Mad Skillet — Space, Evanston; Peaer/Floatie/
Augustine Fic/Windhand/Satan’s Satyrs — Subterranean,
Chicago; Tennis/Matt Costa — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Gregory
Alan Isakov/Haley Heynderickx — The Vic, Chicago; Caroline
Lucius w/curt — Uncommon Ground, Chicago.
THURSDAY 8
Jewish Rock Radio — 210 Live, Highwood; Soul Message Band/
The Trumpet Summit — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; AJR/Robert
DeLong — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; 50th Anniversary of Cream
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