TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER

Music Bingo — Alive One , Chicago ; Windy City Ramblers — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tayla Parx — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Kids on Fire / Sorry Holly / The Tragedies — Burlington , Chicago ; Pop Up Karaoke — Carol ' s , Chicago ; Golden Child — City Winery , Chicago ; Spite House / Demo Division / Daybreaker — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Quarteto Nuevo — Constellation , Chicago ; Lightning Bolt / Mode Hexe — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenffow , Geneva ; Mike Wheeler Band — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Studebaker John — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; The Medium / Forest Ray / Powerup — Hideout , Chicago ; Asking Alexandria — HOB , Chicago ; Live Blues — HOB Restaurant , Chicago ; Recession Seven — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Dora Jar / The Army The Navy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Peach Jam Plays The Allman Brothers / Celebrating Jimmy Carter ' s 100th Birthday ! — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Artemas / Asal — Outset , Chicago ; Nicki Nicole — Radius , Chicago ; Palaye Royale / I See Stars / Weathers — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Gong — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Open Jam — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Dave Herrero — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Karaoke — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Sturgill Simpson — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Martin Bandz / Lunchbreak / Jonak . — Schubas , Chicago ; Basically Nancy / Dead Tooth / Crisis Actress — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Maya de Vitry / Jordie Lane — Space , Evanston ; Bob Vylan / Jigsaw Youth — Subterranean , Chicago ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Sarah Kinsley / Ha Vey — Thalia , Chicago ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs / Cam Kahin / Sleepwalk — The Vic , Chicago ; Music Bingo — Tony D ' s , Elmwood Pk ; Brad Wenzel — Zanies , Chicago ; Eric Eaton — Zanies , Rosemont .

WEDNESDAY 2

Growing Boys — Alive One , Chicago ; Charles Heath / Late Jam — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Splice Series — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Expres / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Red Roses — Bourbon St , Merrionette Pk ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Kaczynskik Composite Sketch / Moecyrus — Burlington , Chicago ; Mike Phillips — City Winery , Chicago ; Divide and Dissolve / Trace Amount — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Show Me The Body / High Vis / Special Interest / BIB / BEARCAT — Concord , Chicago ; Jim Peterik

& World Stage — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; His Name Is Alive / Sleeper ' s Bell — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenffow , Geneva ; Red Elvises — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Billy Gilman — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Eel Romance / Swim Ignorant Fire — Hideout , Chicago ; Hail The Sun — HOB , Chicago ; Live Blues — HOB Restaurant , Chicago ; Jagaloons — Madcats , Palatine ; Acoustic Open Mic — Mirage , Schiller Pk ; Kent Rose & Remediess — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; BYO Vinyl ( 6pm ) — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Hector Nuestra — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Stefan Hillesheim — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Sturgill Simpson — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Kevin Atwater / Ash Tuesday — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Willie Watson / Jack Van Cleaf — Space , Evanston ; Chrissy Costanza / VOILÀ — Subterranean , Chicago ; Home Entertainment / INPO / Stalle — Subterranean , Chicago ; Line Dance Instruction — Sundance , Mundelein ; John Vincent III / Hazlett — Thalia , Chicago ; Vinyl Wednesdays — Will Co . Brewing , Shorewood ; Tommy Brennan — Zanies , Chicago ; New Material Night — Zanies , Rosemont .

THURSDAY 3

Open Jam — Alibi , Wonder Lake ; Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; Sabertooth / Pro Jam — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Atarashii Gakko — Aragon , Chicago ; Open Mic — Arl . Ale House , Arlington Hts ; Grateful Dub : Reggae tribute to The Grateful Dead — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Karaoke — Austin ' s , Libertyville ; Artikal Sound System — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band / Mzz Reese — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Gatecreeper / Frozen Soul / Worm — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Lloyd Snyder and The Big Rig Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Lucky Girl Syndrome / Antillion / Maze Garden — Burlington , Chicago ; Bayker Blankenship / Tyler Nance — Carol ' s , Chicago ; UPSAHL / Conor Burns / Zoe Ko — Chop Shop , Chicago ; John & Joe Gorka — City Winery , Chicago ; MooseCreek Park / Leisure Hour / Garden Home — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Salute — Concord , Chicago ; Amaro Frietas — Constellation , Chicago ; Voices of Rock Radio — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; J . R . C . G ./ Marbled Eye / Mass — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Greyhounds — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Fox Crossing Stringband — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Little Stranger — HOB , Chicago ; Stand Up Comedy — HOB - Foundation Room , Chicago ; Paul Farahvar

— Improv , Schaumburg ; Isiah Spencer — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Women ' s Comedy Night — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Open Mic — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westside ; Pony Bradshaw / Will Stewart — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke — Madcats , Palatine ; Tributosaurus becomes XTC ! — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Karaoke — Mickey Finn ' s , Liblertyville ; Telepaths / Thomas Pace / Ert From Earth — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Beats Antique / Haywyr — Park West , Chicago ; Open Jam — Pollyanna , St . Charles ; Testpilot — Radius , Chicago ; Juvenile and 400 Degreez / Mannie Fresh — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Delta Waves / Mother Fortune / Gorilla Social — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Panopticon / Exulansis — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Arab Blues — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Mt . Joy — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Whores / Nerver / Ira Glass — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Rydona / Subjet / Dub of Kush / Relativity Lounge — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Willy Porter Band — Space , Evanston ; Atheena / Pure Intention / Cheerleader Roadkill — Subterranean , Chicago ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance , Mundelein ; Elephant Revival / Two Runner — Thalia , Chicago ; The Airborne Toxic Event / Near Beer — The Riv , Chicago ; Mk . Gee / Sees00000 — The Vic , Chicago ; Unbridled Burlesque — Untitled , Chicago ; Craig Conant — Zanies , Chicago ; Galder Valas ( En Espanol ) — Zanies , Rosemont .

FRIDAY 4

DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Marques Carrol / Shawn Maxwell — Andy ' s , Chicago ; DPR — Aragon , Chicago ; Firehouse / Nelson — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ Carlos — Arl . Ale House , Arlington Hts ; Linkin Park Tribute : In The End — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; The Schizophonics / Dummy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Miss May I / Hearts Wake — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Ron Burgundy ' s / Sarah ' s Place — Bourbon St , Merrionette Pk ; Jaren Grey Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Tim Swann Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; Coyote Fire / Anfang / Basement Party — Burlington , Chicago ; Cody Ikerd and the Sidewinders — Carol ' s , Chicago ; Zolita — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Fred Wesley — City Winery , Chicago ; Oceano / To The Grave / VCTMS — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Hayden James / Laurence Guy / Kormak — Concord , Chicago ; Twin Talk ( Record Release ) — Constellation , Chicago ; Harry Hmura — Coom ' s Corner , Lockport ; The Sellouts

— Cubby Bear , Chicago ; The Fab Four — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Lil Band — Evenffow , Geneva ; Church of Cash — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Creeper / The Fiction We Create — Forge , Joliet ; Terri Clark — Genesee , Waukegan ; Jacob on the Moon / Smooth Rogers / Inside Outside — GMAN Tavern , Chicago ; Chris Foreman / Jim Trumpeter — Green Mill , Chicago ; Harbanger ' s Ball — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary , IN ; DJ Ric — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Toronzo Cannon — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Chicago Farmerer — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Nightcap ( 9:30pm ): Sad House Guest — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; JP Cooper — HOB , Chicago ; Jungle Lords — HOB - Foundation Room , Chicago ; JR De Guzman — Improv , Schaumburg ; Isiah Spencer — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Lily Rose — Joe ' s , Rosemont ; Whiskey Friends — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Jalen Ngonda / MT Jones — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Industrial Drive — Madcats , Palatine ; Yard Act / Omni — Metro , Chicago ; Geordie Kelly Happy Hour — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Line Dancing Lessons — Nellies , Palatine ; Mr . Blotto / Old Shoe — Nellies , Palatine ; Grateful Shred — Outset , Chicago ; Melt / MARIS — Park West , Chicago ; 16 Candles — Piazza , Aurora ; JD Kostyk — Pollyanna , Lemont ; Billy Denton — Pollyanna , Roselle ; Daniel Orpi / Avo / Ivan / Dani — Prysm , Chicago ; Coverlicious — Q Bar , Darien ; Deadmau5 — Radius , Chicago ; Ricky Montgomery / Ray Bull — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Underoath / Static Dress — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Mike Viola / LA Exes / The Feeders — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Bears in Trees / Mothe / Thank You I ' m Sorry — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Clem Snide / Michele McGuire — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Joe Doyle Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Monica Naranjo — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Mt . Joy — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Lostboycrow / Sleeper ' s Bell — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Bar — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Tunde Olaniran — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Tim Reaper / Takuya Nakamura / Toyacoyah — Smart Bar , Chicago ; American Aquarium / Abby Hamilton — Space , Evanston ; EMO NITE — Subterranean , Chicago ; Will Wilcox — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Homeshake / Freak Heat Waves — Thalia , Chicago ; Alec Benjamin — The Riv , Chicago ; The Fray / Rett Madison — The Vic , Chicago ; Wenonah Ryders — Tony D ' s , Elmwood Pk ; Geneva School of Rock — Venue , Aurora ; Craig Conant — Zanies , Chicago ; Greg Warren — Zanies , Rosemont .