Lake County Entertainment
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Best Bets: Halloween events, Frank Caliendo at Paramount, Ailey II at The MACOct 22, 2025 8:10 am - It’s a jam-packed weekend, with Howlin’ at the Moon in Naperville, master impressionist and comedian Frank Caliendo at the Paramount, Sons of the Never Wrong in Evanston and Ailey II at The Mac.
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Halloween trick-or-treat times in the suburbsOct 22, 2025 8:06 am - Halloween is on Friday, Oct. 31, and many communities have set trick-or-treating hours. Some towns also are hosting downtown trick-or-treating events.
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Everclear’s Art Alexakis has a thing for Chicago: ‘More direct, more honest’Oct 21, 2025 5:24 pm - Veteran rock band Everclear comes to one of its favorite spots, Chicago, for what promises to be a packed concert Oct. 31 at The Vixen in McHenry and a sold-out show Nov. 2 at Thalia Hall in the city.
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Despite earlier assurances, Cinergy Entertainment rejects mural planned for Wheeling cinemaOct 21, 2025 12:54 pm - Much-anticipated plans for a public mural near Wheeling’s Metra train station have been scrapped by the company that was to partner with the village on the project.
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Lights, camera, construction: Cinergy Cinemas gets Wheeling grantOct 20, 2025 7:40 pm - Wheeling’s Cinergy Cinemas will receive a $91,300 grant from the village to help pay for building improvements.
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‘Big nostalgia’: MCC instructor to share Marshall Field’s legacy on WTTW’s ‘Chicago Stories’Oct 19, 2025 6:43 pm - McHenry County College instructor Sarah Sullivan will give a presentation on the history and legacy of Marshall Field’s on an upcoming episode of “Chicago Stories” on WTTW.
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The Biz Week That Was: Illinois towns enact grocery tax, Stellantis to reopen plant, and recession warning signsOct 18, 2025 1:39 pm - More than half of Illinois communities have enacted a local grocery tax Illinois will stop levying a statewide grocery tax on Jan. 1, but millions of people througho...
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Stage frights: Halloween shows dominate Chicago-area stagesOct 17, 2025 9:35 am - This Halloween, suburban and Chicago theaters are serving up thrills, chills and chuckles, including tales of mad scientists, drunken vampires, terrorized wives, imperiled puppets and plucky farm animals.
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Talkin’ ’bout ‘Revolution(s)’: Goodman’s galvanizing funk metal tuner ideal for these timesOct 15, 2025 5:05 pm - Goodman Theatre’s assertive, galvanizing “Revolution(s)” by Tom Morello and Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a funk-metal, hip-hop tuner ideal for our time.
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Volo Museum continues paranormal train tours with stories, mystery and history through early NovemberOct 15, 2025 12:00 pm - The Volo Museum in Volo invites guests to step aboard its train for an extraordinary journey into the paranormal, where history and mystery intertwine.