McHenry County Entertainment
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Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival marks 25th year with 10 bands and fireworksSep 01, 2026 2:56 pm - Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival celebrates its 25th year on Labor Day weekend with three days of activities, 10 bands performing various music styles, carnival rides, and a fireworks show Sunday night.
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Fall theater preview: Plenty of intriguing musicals and plays coming to suburban, Chicago stagesSep 01, 2026 9:57 am - World and regional premieres are among the productions scheduled to run on suburban and Chicago stages this fall.
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Best bets: Paula Poundstone at Crystal Lake’s Raue Center; Cheap Trick in AuroraAug 31, 2026 2:00 pm - Tickets are still available for Paula Poundstone’s Raue Center show; Cheap Trick headlines RiverEdge Park; free museum admission this weekend for Bank of America cardholders.
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Venetian Night in Fox Lake features huge drone light show to mark the end of summerAug 28, 2026 11:51 am - Venetian Night, an end of summer community event, will be held from 3 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at Lakefront Park, 10 Riverview Ave., Fox Lake.
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Renowned storyteller heading to Woodstock Opera House Sept. 20Aug 27, 2026 4:06 pm - On Sept. 20, veteran storyteller Susan O'Halloran, 76, will perform personal narratives about race and social justice at Woodstock Opera House, sharing eye-opening stories from her youth in 1960s Chicago including “The Garbage Story” about systemic inequality in city services.
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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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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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Lake Fest at the Landing on Diamond Lake in Mundelein to feature ski show, live musicAug 21, 2026 4:14 pm - The end of summer comes with a full day of free activities at Lake Fest from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 at The Landing on Diamond Lake (formerly Diamond Lake Recreation Center), 1016 N. Diamond Lake Road, Mundelein.
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Immersive, permanent Ray Bradbury exhibit unveiled at Waukegan History Museum at the CarnegieAug 20, 2026 11:53 am - The Waukegan Historical Society invites the public to the grand opening Friday of the new, permanent Ray Bradbury Library Exhibit at the Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie, 1 N. Sheridan Road, Waukegan.
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Libertyville history shared on guided walking tour around Cook ParkAug 14, 2026 4:19 pm - Learn about Libertyville’s first 100 years through the stories of buildings surrounding Cook Park in downtown Libertyville.