Nonrev Correspondent - Chicago

**29palms** · 10-Jun-2007, 10:48 AM

That sounds great for the TEENIE BOPPERS. I don't recognize a one name in there except for PEARL JAM. I must be getting to be an old foggie or something. Any information on the PLAYBOY club there in Chi-town?

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Randy:
Lollapalooza 2007

Lollapalooza serves up 130 bands including Pearl Jam, Muse, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Snow Patrol, Daft Punk, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Regina Spektor, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, TV on the Radio, Kings of Leon, The Roots, Motion City Soundtrack, Silverchair, M.I.A., Blonde Redhead, The Stooges, The Rapture, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, My Morning Jacket, Jack's Mannequin, !!!, The Fratellis, Electric Six, Amy Winehouse, The Polyphonic Spree, Against Me!, Pete Yorn, The Black Keys, Peter Bjorn and John, Patti Smith, Tapes 'n Tapes, Lupe Fiasco, Cold War Kids, Blue October, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Sparklehorse, The Cribs, Paolo Nutini, The Hold Steady, I'm From Barcelona, Silversun Pickups, The View, G. Love & Special Sauce, Tokyo Police Club, Café Tacuba, Aqueduct, The New Amsterdams, Sherwood, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Soulive, Jim Noir, Juliette & The Licks, Son Volt, Sean Lennon, Annuals, Sam Roberts, Kinky, Chin Up Chin Up, Viva Voce, The Wailers, Rhymefest, Smoosh, Fields, Mickey Avalon, moe., Los Campesinos!, The Postmarks, Dear and the Headlights, Dios, Ghostland Observatory, Elvis Perkins, Colour Revolt, Bound Stems, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Charlie Musselwhite, Heartless Bastards, David Vandervelde, Stephen Marley, Carey Ott, Illinois, The Graduate, John Paul White, Perry Farrell, Ludo, Powerspace, The 1900s, Satellite Party, Kevin Michael, Wax On Radio, Black Angels, Bang Bang Bang, Inward Eye, Ryan Shaw, Roky Erickson and The Explosives, High Class Elite, Mr. North, The Satin Peaches, Back Door Slam, Cage The Elephant, ARCKID, Tom Schraeder, Lady Ga Ga

Fri, 3 Aug – Sun. 5 Aug
Bands converge on nine stages in Chicago’s Grant Park

Click here for ticket information. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

**randyrandy** · 14-May-2007, 01:31 PM

Chicago Blues Festival

As the largest of the city's music festivals, the Chicago Blues Festival draws more than 750,000 people who enjoy four days and six stages of blues music in Grant Park, at Columbus and Jackson.

June 7-10, 2007
Grant Park in Downtown Chicago
Free Admission
11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Click for info.

**randyrandy** · 14-May-2007, 01:49 PM

The Taste of Chicago

June 29-July 8, 2007
Grant Park (100-700 S. Columbus Dr.)
Taste of Chicago opens each day at 11 a.m. and closes most nights at 9 p.m. Taste food booths will remain open until 9:30 p.m. on July 3; the festival closes at 8 p.m. on July 8.

At the first "Taste" in 1980 more than 250,000 showed up. Today some 70 restaurants dish up Chicago's finest for more than 3.5 million people!

More info, including entertainment and concerts at the Taste.

**randyrandy** · 14-May-2007, 02:01 PM

The Chicago Country Music Festival

The Chicago Country Music Festival brings a Western flavor for two days to the Taste of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, on Columbus between Monroe and Van Buren.

June 30-July 1, 2007
Grant Park Downtown Chicago
11am-9:30pm

Free Admission!

Complete details including venues and lineup.

**AL-SYD** · 27-Jun-2006, 12:49 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Migflanker:
Randy
Any idea where I might get some discount tickets to "Wicked"?

Thanks

Keep'em flying </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hmmmm. Tickets. Plural. Are you thinking of coming to Chi-town when I'm there Mig and taking me out to a show and dinner?! How nice of you - of course I accept.

**Migflanker** · 27-Jun-2006, 10:29 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by AL - SYD:
Hmmmm. Tickets. Plural. Are you thinking of coming to Chi-town when I'm there Mig and taking me out to a show and dinner?! How nice of you - of course I accept. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Tickets to "Wicked", obviously the boomerang tossing is taking it's toll. OUCH

Actually I've been to Chicago and back, unfortunately I didn't make it to the theater, road construction collided with festial traffic-----luckily Giordano's stays open til 10.

Hmmm, so you're finally willing to divulge your travel dates, and with no encryption option...so you think those new disguises will work?

Keep'em flying

**barracudababy** · 12-Sep-2006, 12:08 PM

you can get discount tickets for various plays in chicago at www.hottix.com the only thing is that is a last minute, day of kinda of deal.but they are GREAT deals!!

kristen
(chicago native)

**Migflanker** · 13-Sep-2006, 08:54 AM

Hi Kristen/Barracudababy, welcome aboard.
Always nice to see another Chicagoan on the board.

So is it, Uno, Giordano's or do you have a new contender?

Keep'em flying

**randyrandy** · 28-Dec-2006, 01:09 PM

Fun facts about Chicago
(all figures represent the city proper and not Chicagoland as a whole unless otherwise noted)

33 million visitors a year
30,000 hotel rooms
6,500 restaurants
1,212 neighborhood taverns
83 hotels

1,800 hot dog stands
150 million Vienna Beef hot dogs are sold annually
6 million Giordano's pizzas sold (10 million in Chicagoland)

29% of Chicagoland adults 21 and older drank a light beer in the last month
26% drank an import
24% had regular beer
6% a microbrew
18% drank vodka

32,859 parking meters
2,675,238 parking tickets written through November
3,025,214 written in 2005

50 Wards
198 Neighborhoods
552 public parks
70 museums
200 parades per year

5,012 firefighters and paramedics
47,330 fire hydrants
148,000 manholes

13,000 licensed taxi drivers
6,300 taxis are on the streets at any given moment of the day.
8 motion pictures were shot in the city and suburbs this year
217 since 1980

48% of Chicagoans are male
52% female
26% are under 18 years old
33.1 is the median age
37% of Chicagoans speak a language other than English as their primary/first tongue.

39% are white
36% black
5% Asian
20% of other races
29% Hispanic
(totals include mixed race persons who fall in one or more category, thus exceeding a 100% total)

22% were born in another country
78% were born in America (including territories/possessions)
58% were born in Illinois

293,703 take public transportation to work daily
63,580 walk to work daily
34.3 minutes is the average commute.

(Source: The Chicago Tribune)

**randyrandy** · 23-Apr-2007, 07:58 AM

Chicago Outdoor Film Festival-Grant Park

Butler Field, Grant Park
100 S. Lake Shore Drive

Grab a blanket, pack a picnic and spend Tuesday nights watching classic movies for free under the stars.

Read about this year's flick picks.

Films will be shown in rainy weather as long as lightning, strong winds or other severe conditions are not present. Cyclists can take advantage of free bike valet parking at the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Street. No bikes, dogs or alcohol are allowed in the seating area.

Jul. 17: 8:56 p.m. 'Young Frankenstein" (1974)
Jul. 24: 8:50 p.m. "Double Indemnity" (1944)
Jul. 31: 8:42 p.m. "Written on the Wind" (1956)
Aug. 7: 8:34 p.m. "The Awful Truth" (1937)
Aug. 14: 8:24 p.m. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
Aug. 21: 8:13 p.m. "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957)
Aug. 28: 8:01 p.m. "The Sound of Music" (1965)

Price: Free!

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