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Blues Legends Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown

Come to Fitzgerald’s Nightclub in Oak Park to see blues legends Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown October 13, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! You will thrill to see British blues/rock pioneers Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown in a small concert venue! The duo are celebrating fifty […]

The Who Farewell Tour

“Horton Hears a Who” and you will too, when you come to see the farewell tour of The Who with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at Chicago’s United Center October 15, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! OMG! The lads across the pond “Who” brought us “Tommy,” […]

“Peter and the Starcatcher”

Come to the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook to see the tour premiere of the Broadway smash hit “Peter and the Starcatcher,” through October 18, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! “Peter and the Starcatcher” was the toast of Broadway in 2012, winning five Tony awards and […]

North Coast Music Festival

  Come with someone you love for summer’s last stand at the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago September 4-6, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! If electronic, hip hop, jam band, indie rock and other eclectic music is your thing, you will love the lineup. Friday […]

Oaktoberfest in Historic Oak Park

Bring your family to Oak Park’s Oaktoberfest September 19-20, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Oaktober—get it? Oak Park? October? Historic Oak Park is a beautiful western suburb of Chicago, home to the most Frank Lloyd Wright homes in the country, and hometown of Ernest Hemingway. Oaktoberfest […]

Rick Springfield at Northerly Island

  Come to the Rick Springfield concert at Chicago’s First Merit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, September 10, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Rick Springfield’s career is hotter than a fire cracker. He currently stars with Meryl Streep in the critically acclaimed film, “Ricki and the […]

Farm Aid with Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp

Join Willie Nelson & Family, an all-star lineup of music gods, and thirty thousand fans for Farm Aid, September 19 at the Northerly Island First Merit Bank Pavilion, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! OMG! Farm Aid turns thirty this year! Willie Nelson & Family will be […]

Boy Band One Direction

Take your daughters (if you dare) and follow directions to Soldier Field to see boy band One Direction, August 23, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! One Direction’s music can be described as teen pop, dance pop, pop rock and electropop. It was one of the first […]

Cirque Du Soleil’s “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities”

Bring your curious family to see the amazing artists of Cirque Du Soleil perform “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities” at the United Center August 6-20, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! Cirque Du Soleil’s new show, “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities,” invites the audience to disbelieve, as the company […]

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Bring your ladies and gentlemen to see Oak Park Festival Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s comedy, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” through August 22, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside! “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” is one of those “mix-up” comedies in which Valentine and Proteus, after […]