With the world’s sixth-largest freshwater lake at our fingertips, Chicago’s cup runneth over with bragging rights. Climate migration is predicted for the Second City, with hordes of people from out west tapping into our water privilege: our Great, and fragile, Lake. But currently, in Middle America, there’s a city running out of water. No, it’s […]
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Fifty years ago, Trilogy brought the west coast’s countrified rock sound to Chicago
Trilogy’s sole album flopped, but it’s ripe for rediscovery by the young bands in love with the old Laurel Canyon scene.
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Slide guitarist John Littlejohn brought Mississippi country blues to Chicago
John Littlejohn’s raw slide-guitar style grew from the same soil that produced Elmore James, but he never became a star outside the Windy City.
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Gossip Wolf: An off-the-grid show by Swedish industrial legends Brighter Death Now
An off-the-grid show by Swedish industrial legends Brighter Death Now, a compilation of rare Chicago house from Kstarke, and more
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/24: Electric Daisy Carnival, Irish Fest, and Carol Horton
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 24
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Pot busts of the week: green thumbs in Joliet, the righteous reverend of Ontario, a craving for “meat” at Subway
Intensive gardening in Joliet and other marijuana-law defying acts.
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The Frankfort slasher strikes again
Suburban pulp specialist Robert Alaniz brings his “Vision” to the Music Box Friday.
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From the archives: Love Under Lock and Key
From the archives: Love under lock and key.