FESTIVALS AND MUSIC EVENTSChicago’s What’s Funny Comedy Festival Brings Legends, Surprises and a Packed Weekend of Stand-Up, Live Podcasts and Local Club Shows for Fans Downtown FEATURED EVENTSLionel Richie Pauses Touring After Heart Procedure, With the 77-Year-Old Singer Set to Return Soon and Three Late-September Shows Still Listed on His Nationwide Schedule CELEBRITIES SPOTLIGHTSBirmingham Singer Valarie T. Smith Looks Back on Her Four-Chair ‘The Voice’ Run and Says New Music Is Coming After the NBC Spotlight UPCOMING EVENTS AND TOURS Illinois Lottery Online Player Lands $550,000 Lucky Day Lotto Jackpot After Matching All Five Evening Numbers in Saturday Drawing Chicago Speed Camera Tickets Surged in 2025 as 50 New Cameras Helped City Collect $64.2 Million and End Three Years of Decline Chicago Cubs Open Playoff Ticket Lottery Wednesday as Wrigley Field Hopefuls Line up for a Chance to Buy Seats If the Team Reaches October Chicago Malört World Record Attempt Sells Out as Hundreds Prepare to Take a Bitter Shot Sunday, With Livestream Viewers and Neighborhood Bars Still Joining the Stunt Chicago Mom Wins $400,000 on a $5 Illinois Lottery Scratch-Off After Repeated Scans at a Gage Park Store, Then Plans Back-To-School Gifts for Her Three Children VIEW ALL FESTIVALS AND MUSIC EVENTS Chicago’s What’s Funny Comedy Festival Brings Legends, Surprises and a Packed Weekend of Stand-Up, Live Podcasts and Local Club Shows for Fans Downtown Chicago Weekend Guide Pairs Tinashe, Summer Walker, Suki Waterhouse and Open House Chicago With the 62nd Film Festival and Halloween Events Aurora Festival Attack Case Sends Calvin Jones to Court After Prosecutors Say He Punched Four People and Spit on a Police Officer at Moon Festival Aurora Man Calvin Jones Faces Felony Charges After Prosecutors Say He Punched Four Festivalgoers, Including a Man Holding a 1-Year-Old Child, at Pacifica Square Chicago’s Free Jazz Festivals Keep September Humming With Englewood Premieres, Hyde Park Anniversaries and Tributes to John Coltrane and Miles Davis VIEW ALL CELEBRITIES SPOTLIGHTS Birmingham Singer Valarie T. Smith Looks Back on Her Four-Chair ‘The Voice’ Run and Says New Music Is Coming After the NBC Spotlight Kathleen Hanna Reflects on Bikini Kill’s Boston Return, From Gloria Steinem’s D.C. Rally to Roadrunner and the Feminist Punk Movement That Changed Her Life Tucson Country Singer Readies for Blind Audition on Nbc’s the Voice as Local Fans Watch to See Whether the Arizona Performer Lands a Chair Turn Lufkin Native Blues Singer Carvin Jones Dies at 60 After Prostate Cancer Battle, Leaving Behind a Phoenix Legacy, East Texas Roots and Decades of Touring Ed Sheeran Breaks Down at Philadelphia Tour Opener After Macklemore Fallout Over Gaza Comments and Says He Will Finish the Loop Tour Despite the Backlash VIEW ALL NEW RELEASES & ALBUM DROPS Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto VI the Album for November 19, a Companion Release Tying the Blockbuster Video Game Franchise to Music Fans and Collectors Erykah Badu and the Alchemist Release Before the World Blows After a Year of Singles, Bringing a Trippy, Star-Packed Comeback to Fans My Chemical Romance Teases First New Album in Over 15 Years During San Antonio Concert as Gerard Way Says Fans Deserve Another Record Alabama Shakes Return With First Album in 11 Years After a Druid City Brewing Reunion Sparked New Songs, a Tour, and the Band’s Renewed Creative Spark Arco E Tasto’s Once Heard, Long Forgotten Revives Emilie Mayer and Luise Adolpha Le Beau With a Navona Recording Shaped by Milwaukee Musicianship and Romantic Rediscovery VIEW ALL INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDS Wu-Tang Management Shares Business Advice and Life Lessons With Birmingham Youth Before the Group’s Final Tour Stop at Coca-Cola Amphitheater Doug Ellin Sees Nashville Film Boom Taking Shape as Paramount Skydance Eyes Space and Tennessee Courts Hollywood With Incentives and Infrastructure Kenny Chesney Rejects the Usual Country Album Cover Playbook With a Self-Shot New Hampshire Marina Sign for Silver Sands Marina, Due September 25 Jason Isbell Sues Cambridge-Based AI Music Platform Suno Over Alleged Identity Misuse as Industry Fights Over Consent, Attribution, and Compensation Intensify The 5th Dimension’s Aquarius Let the Sunshine in Still Defines Pop Radio 57 Years Later After Six Weeks at No. 1 and a Las Vegas Recording Session VIEW ALL FEATURED EVENTS FEATURED EVENTS Lionel Richie Pauses Touring After Heart Procedure, With the 77-Year-Old Singer Set to Return Soon and Three Late-September Shows Still Listed on His Nationwide Schedule Posted onSeptember 23, 2026September 23, 2026 0 The music icon underwent a procedure for atrial fibrillation and is taking time off before resuming his calendar.FEATURED EVENTS Ed Sheeran Opens Philadelphia Solo Concert With Gaza Remarks as Fan Backlash and Dropped Openers Reshape His Loop Tour Stop at Lincoln Financial Field Posted onSeptember 20, 2026September 20, 2026 0 The pop star addressed Gaza, defended his concert choices and faced protests outside the stadium as his touring lineup kept ...FEATURED EVENTS Vikings Face Bears in Week 2 at Soldier Field as Carson Wentz Makes His 100th Start and Caleb Williams Tests Brian Flores’ Defense Posted onSeptember 19, 2026September 19, 2026 0 Minnesota enters a matchup built around rushing, turnovers and two quarterbacks with very different pressures on Sunday in Chicago.FEATURED EVENTS New Owner Set to Take Over Chicago Area Safety Net Hospitals as Weiss Memorial and West Suburban Move Toward Possible Reopening With Insight Hospital Help Posted onSeptember 18, 2026September 18, 2026 0 A sale agreement could put two long-closed hospitals back on track after receivership and years of pressure from community advocates. 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