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There's still plenty of time to get out and enjoy the many Halloween festivities this town has to offer. My pick for a ghoulishly fun time this year, if you're from out of town and looking for a scary, hip and happening celebration: Navy Fear at Navy Pier.

Navy Pier's Halloween Celebration includes Demons of the Deep and Ghostly Gardens. You can experience Demons Mild or Demons Wild, depending on your ...

You may know The Second City as an incubator for comedians like Mike Myers, Tim Meadows, Bonnie Hunt, Jim Belushi, Bill Murray and many others. The improv troupe's connection with "Saturday Night Live" has been well-documented. Once called the Compass Players when the group started in the mid-1950s at the University of Chicago, this Chicago treasure is still going strong. I have a friend who insists on attending a show ...

The summers are just packed in Chicago. Every weekend, especially in August, seems full of festivals of every kind--food fairs, art fairs, concerts, Venetian Night, fireworks, the air and sea show. The place to be this Friday, Saturday and Sunday is Lollapalooza, of course. I plan to go, and so about 50 percent of all the people I know. The other 50 percent are going to avoid the city like ...

Admittedly, trekking up to the Genesee Theatre in downtown Waukegan is a bit of a hike-about 40 miles from Chicago. Waukegan is one of the far north suburbs, and not a particularly pretty one in many areas (you may know the city as the birthplace of Jack Benny and hometown of Ray Bradbury). But here's why the trip is worth it; Genesee is one of those grand old community theaters ...

Looking for a great place to catch a live musical act while you're in Chicago? Look no further. There are two great bars on Chicago's north side shilling out original live music daily.

Schuba's, located at School and Southport in West Lakeview, is a bar, restaurant, and a cozy musical venue. They have a different live act every night of the week. Check out the ...

I don't actually spend a lot of time at the House of Blues--every year or so they have a show I'd like to see, and at one point my husband and I contemplated becoming members of the Foundation Room. I find the groups that play there to be eclectic and mostly interesting for nostalgia reasons. The last show I saw there was Asia, with the original lineup (I know, don't ...

I'm a geek at heart.  That's why, when blessed with a weekday away from the grind this past Monday, I convinced my boyfriend to accompany me to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. 

I had seen a billboard at the bus stop while waiting to get to work for CSI: The Experience, and I was intrigued.  One week later, boyfriend and ...

Chicago radio station 93XRT is a great source for concert information. Check out their listings here.

Chicago is a great place to be on the 4th of July.  The fireworks over the lake are fantastic, and the hustle and bustle of the Taste of Chicago is enough to keep anyone busy.  The City of Chicago puts on a huge fireworks display tonight, visible anywhere you have a view of the air above the lake near downtown.  I'm sure there are people staking out a good spot ...

If you're coming to Chicago between June 29 and July 8, you'd better be going to the Taste of Chicago. How could you miss a sampling of foods from more than 70 restaurants, dancing the calories away at a variety of concerts with free admission, the entire Chicago Country Music Festival and a crazy long list of performances, demonstrations and events at the Taste's various stages?

If you're a health nut, you ...