On July 12, as an angry reaction to the popularity of disco music, the Chicago White Sox held the “Disco Demolition Night” promotion, in which a crate of disco records was blown up on the field between games of a double-header; the ensuing riot and damage to the field caused the White Sox to forfeit the second game.
Sueños Music Festival is here to stay. The Latino music festival on Thursday announced it has reached an agreement with the Chicago Parks District to extend its contract with the city and expand from two days to three.
Here’s a taste of what to expect for this year’s Windy City Smokeout, which opens with headliner Thomas Rhett on Thursday. Bring your appetite.
If the Chicago Blues Festival in June whet your appetite for more blues this summer, the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks aims to give you what you crave with “Chicago Bound: The Great Migration of the Blues.”
On July 3, 1971, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
Mick Jagger beat the braggadocio boasts of “Start Me Up” to the punch Thursday at a packed Soldier Field. The Rolling Stones vocalist was already riled up and running hot before the resonant chords of the recognizable anthem signaled the opening of the legendary band’s first of a two-night stand at the lakefront venue. (The […]
Watching her perform her short but sweet set on Thursday night felt like bearing witness to a secret, a next music idol in the making.
For all his credentials, the guest conductor’s connection never sparked on Wednesday with our own Grant Park Festival Orchestra, which otherwise sounded as fine as ever.
An ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader has been denied release from a Las Vegas jail ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur, despite a bid by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite his $750,000 bond.
Boasted as the largest free performing arts festival in the Midwest, headliners include Second City, Blue Man Group, Ginger Minj (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Felicia Fields and Oliv Blu (“The Voice”).