Mar 11, 2024 · CHICAGO — With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, Chicagoans are gearing up for a jam-packed weekend of Irish festivities. Bagpipers and dancers will take to the streets, Irish bands and comics are headed to local stages, neighbors will crawl from bar to bar and the river will soon turn green.

Founded in 1987 in New York City, the Blue Man Group started as a few small “happenings” before expanding to Off-Off Broadway, then blowing up in the 2000s with shows in Las Vegas and performances alongside Moby and the Grammys.

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Jul 25, 2024 · CHICAGO — Several City Council members and transportation advocates want officials to scrap their top plan for a redesign of DuSable Lake Shore Drive because it doesn’t include enough public transit on the city’s most famous road.

Nov 1, 2024 · SOUTH SHORE — Plans for a South Shore entertainment center nearly a decade in the making recently advanced with approvals from the city’s zoning board, and its developer says she hopes to open the center at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard by the end of 2026.

Oct 31, 2024 · The CHA announced Scott’s departure on Monday, ending an often-turbulent four-and-a-half-year tenure. Mayor Brandon Johnson thanked Scott for her “steadfast leadership,” but sources told Block Club that, behind the scenes, Johnson is moving to shake up the agency. In addition to Scott’s exit, the mayor also filled the agency board’s last vacancy, one reserved for …

Dec 31, 2024 · CHICAGO — Drivers on the Chicago Skyway will have to pay more in the new year. The Chicago Skyway announced its tolls will increase in 2025, starting Wednesday.Increases can depend on whether a driver is on the road during peak times (4 a.m.-8 p.m.) or off-peak times (8 p.m.-4 a.m.).

Dec 18, 2024 · Parties, Midnight Toasts & More. Latin Rhythms Social. 9 p.m. Dec. 28. Latin Rhythms Academy of Dance & Performance, 210 N. Racine Ave. Latin Rhythms’ final social of the year will feature DJ Lu Roc.

Nov 27, 2024 · CHICAGO — Celebrate Thanksgiving weekend, Black Friday and the holiday season with events across the city. There’s ice skating at Millennium Park, Small Business Saturday markets and celebrations, a holiday market at the National Museum of Mexican Art, “The Wizard of Oz” performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an Irish American …

Around 2:10 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old man, a 28-year-old man and a third man were walking in the 1200 block of West Loyola Avenue when another man walked up to them and started an argument, police said.