October 2018

• Barack Obama will appear at a Get Out the Vote Rally in Chicago on Sunday
• A sprawling, beach-themed ball pit is coming to Navy Pier in January
• Ariana Grande
• Conan O'Brien + Ron Funches + James Veitch
• Jack White + The Nude Party
• Tenacious D + Wynchester
• Cosmologies
• Il trovatore
• LuxeHome CHILL
• HeLa
• Siegfried
• Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
• This Bitter Earth
• Frankenstein
• “Brewing Up Chicago: How Beer Transformed a City”
• “African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race”
• The Book of Mormon
• Nas + Pusha T + Valee + Teyana Taylor
• Shopscura
• Afrojack
• Grapetooth + Dehd
• Jim James + Alynda Segarra
• Jawbreaker + Naked Raygun + Smoking Popes
• 10 reasons why Chicago is the ultimate city for fall and winter celebrations
• Hello, Dolly!
• Upper Wilds + Crown Larks + Stander
• From the Screen Foundations of Music Benefit
• All-Inclusive Halloween Party
• Tomorrow Never Knows music festival reveals its initial 2019 lineup
• In the Canyon
• Awesome Tapes From Africa
• November events calendar for kids in Chicago
• The Park After Dark Haunted House
• Go inside Hubbard Inn’s awesomely accurate Harry Potter pop-up bar
• Halloween Basement Party with the Cool Kids
• Halloween arrived early at the Arts in the Dark parade on State Street
• Pizzeria Bebu
• 2018 Hanbok Fashion Show
• Rock & Roll Masquerade Ball at Bohemian National Cemetery
• Lost in Space: Halloween at Lost Lake
• Chicago International Children's Film Festival
• The best free things to do in Chicago in November
• Good Measure
• Liner Notes: A Musical Storytelling Series
• Chicago Thanksgiving Parade
• The best geek stuff and destinations in Chicago
• A Nightmare on Wacker Drive
• Haunted Rooftop at Cerise
• Gangsters and Ghosts Tour
• Aaron Thielen and Michael Mahler’s new musical Hero at Marriott Theatre
• Filament Theatre Ensemble finds a new home in Portage Park
• Bailiwick Chicago rebrands and refines its mission
• Jamie Allan’s iMagician… It’s Magic Beyond Belief
• “Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection”
• “Betsy Odom: Butchcraft”
• “Chicago Works: Jessica Campbell”
• Florence and the Machine
• “Let me consider it from here”
• “ICONIC Black Panther”
• Get an Italian beef from Al’s Beef for just 80 cents this week
• Chance the Rapper won’t run for mayor, but he did endorse candidate Amara Enyia
• Polly Stenham’s Tusk Tusk at Piven Theatre Workshop
• NEWCITY Fall Festival
• Chance the Rapper spent an afternoon masquerading as a Lyft driver
• Masque Macabre
• Snail Mail
• The Lemon Twigs
• Red Bull Hack the Hits
• Ólafur Arnalds
• RJD2
• Spooky Spicy Scaryaoke
• A new batch of tickets to wndr museum is on sale now
• These Chicago beers pair perfectly with Halloween candy
• In Sickness and in Health... A Love Story
• The Beer Temple
• Kids’ Night Out: Polar Express
• Eataly's Favorite Wines for the Holidays
• A Christmas Carol
• Chicago Helicopter Tour With Holiday Lights
• Chicago Holiday Lights Tour
• Greta Van Fleet
• Bones and Skeletons for Holloween
• Trapped in a Room with a Zombie
• HellsGate Haunted House
• Derby Day parties in Chicago
• The ten best plays of 2012 in Chicago theater | 2012 in review
• Everything you need to know about the 2018 Chicago Marathon
• The funniest signs we saw at the Chicago Marathon 2018
• Photos from the course at the Chicago Marathon 2018
• By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Goodman Theatre | Theater review
• Pullman Porter Blues at Goodman Theatre: Theater review
• Misplaced Lagoon II: Stolen Voodoo
• Death at the Disco
• Graveface Serial Killer and Oddball Art Show
• The 20 most Instagrammable restaurants and bars in Chicago
• Haunted Hyde Park
• Zombie Scavengers Game
• Haunted Segway Tour
• West Loop nightclub the Mid will close its doors in 2019
• CBD-infused cocktails are on the menu at the latest Emporium pop-up bar
• Chicago’s Lost Lake named one of the World’s 50 Best Bars
• 69 exciting openings in Chicago in October
• Chicago Marathon 2018: Here’s what you need to know
• Pink Taco is giving away 1,000 free tacos on National Taco Day
• Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies
• Frankenstein
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• “The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity and Politics”
• “Keep Moving: Designing Chicago's Bicycle Culture”
• Phoebe Robinson
• Hari Kondabolu
• Lewis Black
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
• Drake Hotel Masquerade Ball
• Underworld's Fair
• Midwest Flair Fest
• Small Mouth Sounds
• Zurich
• Fun Harmless Warmachine
• Universoul Circus
• Witch
• West Town Food Truck Social
• Idomeneo
• Tootsie
• La bohème
• Liz Phair
• Mitski + Overcoats
• Indecent
• Downstate