Cook County Entertainment
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Food trucks, live music and family fun coming to Lombard’s Maple Street Sept. 5Aug 26, 2026 6:14 pm - The Lombard Historical Society hosts its fifth annual Food Truck Social on Sept. 5. This America 250 celebration features eight diverse food trucks, live music including a Blues Brothers tribute band, and family-friendly activities.
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Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church hosts ‘Thirty Years of Praise’ concert Sept. 27Aug 26, 2026 2:04 pm - Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Arlington Heights will host "Thirty Years of Praise: A Festival of Hymns" on Sunday, Sept. 27, celebrating 30 years since their Gabriel Kney Pipe Organ installation.
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Plan for brewery on Durty Nellie’s site advances to Palatine village councilAug 26, 2026 12:30 pm - The plan to turn Durty Nellie’s into a restaurant and brewery received an enthusiastic reception from Palatine’s planning and zoning commission.
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‘Helping people find their stories’: Indie bookstore to open in downtown Lake ZurichAug 26, 2026 10:55 am - Politics was the introduction but it was a love of reading, writing and storytelling that fueled and sustained a partnership in an indie bookstore about to open in downtown Lake Zurich.
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Dining Out: The PSL is back, seasonal offerings at Old Town Pour House, win burgers for a yearAug 25, 2026 5:03 pm - It must be fall, y’all because the pumpkin spice latte is back at Starbucks. We also have new Chef Select choices at Old Town Pour House and you can win free burgers for a year at American Place Casino in Waukegan.
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Elmhurst History Museum teams with Pro Football Hall of Fame on century of Chicago football storiesAug 25, 2026 2:48 pm - The Elmhurst History Museum will present “Bear Down: Football in the Windy City” Aug. 28 through Jan. 24.
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Schaumburg’s 55th annual Septemberfest also celebrates village’s 70th anniversaryAug 25, 2026 2:19 pm - This year’s Septemberfest over Labor Day weekend in Schaumburg will be an extra special one for a number of reasons. Not only is it the 55th staging of the festival itself, but it will be the village’s largest celebration of its 70th anniversary and accompany the final stages of construction on the new village hall at the heart of the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Campus.
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Spotlight: Janus Theatre revives ever-timely ‘An Iliad’ with all-female castAug 25, 2026 10:59 am - Ten years after it staged Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s “An Iliad,” Elgin’s Janus Theatre remounts the play with an all-female cast; TimeLine launches its 30th season with the premiere of “The Birth of the Pill” about the development of the life-changing oral contraceptive; and Promethean Theatre Ensemble stages “Blood of the Lamb,” a Kafkaesque thrill about reproductive rights.
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Suburban muralist bringing vibrant colors to downtown Des PlainesAug 24, 2026 5:25 pm - Artist Melina Scotte is painting a mural of flowers and foliage on a Des Plaines apartment building’s facade.
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Palatine’s Durty Nellie’s could be sold, replaced by breweryAug 24, 2026 9:00 am - Durty Nellie’s could have a new owner and a new name. Iowa-based Big Grove Brewery has a contract to purchase the iconic Palatine restaurant, which has operated at 180 N. Smith St. since 2003.