Some North Shore middle school students got a brief preview of life on a high school campus by participating in Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart's 2016 summer school program. Girls entering grades six through eight in the fall joined in two of ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic "South Pacific" is the 2016 summer musical being presented by the College of Lake County departments of theatre, music and dance. Six performances will take place in the Mainstage Theatre of the James Lumber Center ...

Sixty years after he founded Rosemont and nearly a decade after his death, people are still talking about Don Stephens. His legacy permeates the 2.5-square-mile Northwest suburban village, from the office buildings, hotels and businesses he helped l...

Serious blues Shemekia Copeland, Irma Thomas and Toronzo Cannon are just some of the headliners for the Chicago Blues Festival this weekend at Grant Park near the intersection of Columbus Drive and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. No admission charge. (3...

Party in the park Close out your workweek with Miller Lite Party in the Park Fridays at Arlington Park. Murley, a funk-blues-rock band from the Northwest suburbs, headlines the party at 4 p.m. Friday, June 10. Dance to their catchy jams while you s...

Early 'Last' The bands Barenaked Ladies, OMD and Howard Jones team up for the “Last Summer on Earth Tour,” which plays on Thursday at the Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. $70-$85 pavilion seating; $33-$38 lawn seating. (847) 266-5...

LOW's 'My Fair Lady' Nick Sandys, Remy Bumppo artistic director and First Folio Theatre artistic associate, reprises his role as prickly phonetics professor Henry Higgins in Light Opera Works' revival of "My Fair Lady," the Alan Jay Lerner and ...

Lifelong Elgin resident Ernie Broadnax remembers being a small, scared child when the Ku Klux Klan marched up Dundee Avenue past his dad's cobbler shop in the 1940s. He was there when his childhood friends devised a scheme to jump into the city's wh...

Ear-tugging favorite Emmy Award-winner Carol Burnett promises “An Evening of Laughter and Reflection Where The Audience Asks The Questions” at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., Chicago. $33.50-$195.50. (800) 745-3000 or thechicagotheatre.com. 8...

Rant master See why Pixar cast comedian Lewis Black to personify the emotion of anger in “Inside Out” in an adults-only performance on Thursday at College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. $65-$69; $78 VIP seating. (630...