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Oak Park Micro Brew Review

Join several hundred of your friends for the Oak Park Micro Brew Review August 19, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Come to downtown Oak Park on Saturday, August 19, for brews, bites and tunes at the largest zero-waste craft beer fest in the Midwest! Enjoy a […]

Festa Italiano

Bring the family to Festa Italiana near the University of Illinois Chicago, August 18-20 and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago at Hillside! Festa Italiana will fill your senses with la dolce vita Italy and meatballs! The 12th annual Festa Italiana stretches along Taylor Street between Ashland Avenue and Racine Street. […]

Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers

Come to Chicagoland to see the fabulous Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers at Fitzgerald’s Night Club in Berwyn July 22, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! “We partyin’” is Kermit Ruffins’ favorite phrase. This special jazz man who eerily resembles the great Louie Armstrong, regularly appears […]

Pitchfork Festival

Join fifty thousand of your closest friends at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park July 14, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! The Pitchfork Music Festival is world famous as a venue for the finest in alternative music. The Festival features new and established bands. […]

Roger Waters with Us + Them

Old hippies and hipster kids should come to see Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters with Us + Them  July 23, 23 & 28 at Chicago’s United Center, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! The raves are in for Roger Water with Us + Them. They killed in St […]

Tour de Fat

Come to Chicago’s Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island to see the Tour de Fat festival featuring the fabulous Roots in concert July 29, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! The Tour de Fat festival, is filled with performers and special bands. There will be street musicians, […]

Summer Nights at Brookfield Zoo

Bring the family for the Brookfield Zoo’s Summer Nights celebration, Fridays and Saturday nights June 16-August 12, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Summer nights are cooler, summer nights are for fun, summer nights are for music, and summer nights bring out the zoo animal in you! […]

Spring Awakening

Join 75 thousand of your closest friends for alternative music’s Spring Awakening at Chicago’s Addams/Medill Park June 9-11, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! There is too much to do and see at Spring Awakening! There are two main stages and several branded stages! Then there’s the […]

Paul Simon

Hippies, hipsters and even hip-hop fans should come to the Paul Simon concert at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Chicago’s Northerly Island June 14, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Celebrating the release of his latest album “Stranger to Stranger,” which debuted at Number One on the […]

Blues Fest Special a Fitzgerald’s

Come to the Blues Fest Special at Fitzgerald’s Night Club June 10, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! The Blues Fest Special features blues and soul singer Nikki Hill, the Nick Moss Band, and the Jimmys. With tickets costing only 20 bucks, this will be a memorable […]