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Sunday's Bitter Jester Music Festival grand finale brought together the summer's eight finalists, plus a bevy of special guests, at Madame Zuzu's to celebrate music and the festival's home community.
Chicago folk-rocker Michael McDermott presents excerpts from his new book along with a concert in Aurora; the Out of Space concert series brings a weekend of music to Evanston; and the Bitter Jester Music Festival's grand finale doubles as a benefit show for Highland Park Sunday.
Members of a Stevens Point band were caught up in the chaos of Monday's deadly shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. No one from the band was injured.
The suburbs are booming with festivals, fireworks, parades, concerts, carnivals, fairs and more for the Fourth of July.
Several nearby communities canceled Fourth of July activities after the shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade Monday morning. Among them: Arlington Heights, Elgin, Elk Grove Village, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, Glenview and Vernon Hills.