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Wilco’s Oct. 18 hometown show at UIC Pavilion is already sold out, and tickets for the 19th are going fast, but at press time there were seats left for front man Jeff Tweedy’s solo performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, in Edgewater. A benefit for Emanuel Congregation, the concert takes place at the temple. Call it a staycation. Step into the past this summer with W. C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong and other greats of the silent-film era. The Silent Film Society of Chicago’s annual “Silent Summer” film festival opens Friday, July 24, in Portage Park with “Running Wild,” a 1927 Fields comedy, and a Buster Keaton short, [...] Tragically hip assassins, troubled writers, tenacious dancers, smarmy cashiers, curious mourners, nervous friends and a boy and his mother all feature in seven one-act plays beginning at 8 p.m. Monday, July 20, at Edgewater’s City Lit Theater. The defining event of the French Revolution, the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, launched a decade of vast upheaval and terror in France, and ended, not with liberty, equality and fraternity, but with the crowning of Napoleon as emperor. France would go on to have numerous monarchs, coups and revolts between [...] This weekend’s Great Performers of Illinois festival in Millennium Park is about more than music. Yes, there will be concerts from the likes of Dennis DeYoung of Styx and the Grant Park Music Festival. A variety of actors also feature, both onstage and around the park, ranging from “Charlie Chaplin by the Dozen” to the [...] Here’s a way to foil the Monday blues: Grab a pizza at Evanston’s Union Pizzeria on Monday, July 13, and head to the adjoining Evanston SPACE, 1245 N. Chicago Ave., for a cool flashback to “Dark Cafe Days,” a Joni Mitchell tribute by the harmonic trio Foiled Again (Allison Bazarko, Rob Lindley and Anne Sheridan [...] Rosemont isn’t one of our favorite places, but somehow, between O’Hare and all the hotels and businesses around it, we wind up there pretty often. One of our mainstays has always been Harry Caray’s. Between the pastas, Italian fare, burgers and steaks, there’s something to satisfy everyone, and prices range from $12 for spaghetti [...] |
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