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chicagoreader.com/music/concer... 🔥🔥🔥 from @imleor.bsky.social about Lollapalooza, the corporate monolith masquerading as a civic good

As Chicago’s biggest music festival, shouldn’t Lollapalooza do more to serve the city’s people? - Chicago ReaderLollapalooza is among the many festivals organized by Austin-based promoter C3 Presents, and C3 Presents is owned by Live Nation, the largest multinational corporation in the concert business.chicagoreader.com

I also cannot abide by Obvious Shirts, the Wrigleyville t-shirt shop. Triumph of ugly, cynical merchandising over good design and taste.

I cannot abide by the Savannah Bananas

chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr... insightful look at food, culture and war in Palestine and its link to Chicago by @morleymusick.bsky.social

Palestinian American olive oil importers in Chicago are strugglingPalestinian olive oil importers contend with drought, tariffs, and settler violence to bring their product to Chicago.chicagoreader.com

chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

Amid changing industry, Chicago cabbies and ride-hailing drivers are both struggling: 'I'm stuck in this'City and state lawmakers recently took steps to support cabbies and ride-hailing drivers but some worry it may be too little too late.chicago.suntimes.com

chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2026... isn't this literally a plot from nathan for you

Chicagoans love dive bars; now there's a new play inside one“Dive,” which unfolds at Fritzy’s Tavern in Edgewater, is a project of new theater group, the Dark Room District, and aims to capture the conversational magic of the watering hole.chicago.suntimes.com

caseytoner.bandcamp.com/track/quarry... I made a Thornton Quarry song using samples (pitched up/down, ran through a vocoder, arpeggiated) from the voiceover that plays during the tour. Good music to listen to when the Deep Tunnel is storing storm water that would otherwise be flooding your basement

Quarry Core, by Casey Tonertrack by Casey Tonercaseytoner.bandcamp.com

chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... Carlos Baker, who shot and killed his partner Krystal Rivera, was referred to a strict supervision program just weeks before the killing. But a supervisor never followed up on the email and he was never enrolled w @schuba.bsky.social @peternickeas.bsky.social

Chicago police failed to place troubled cop under strict supervision before he fatally shot partnerCarlos Baker was referred to a program that puts officers under intense oversight. Failing could mean “severe” discipline or firing. But Baker wasn't enrolled before he shot Officer Krystal Rivera bec...chicago.suntimes.com

Finished Delta Rune Chapter 4! Excited for 5 and kind of astonished by the scope of what's being pulled off

Chicago school board candidate not committed to "political sides" 🤔

Free idea: a Soccer New Deal. Free play in every city & regional free play hubs in rural areas. Networks of talent scouts to identify future American Messis. Alexi Lalas & Carli Loyd are deployed to a military base in the Caribbean where they can't leave or talk to anyone about soccer

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/09/h... Banger of a story about the mysterious Harold's Chicken Shack will. Shades of "Succession" here

Chicken coup? Family flap over control of famous Harold’s Chicken Shack brand lands in court.Six months after the death of Harold’s Chicken Shack CEO Kristen Pierce-Sherrod, the question remains: Who owns the iconic Chicago restaurant brand?www.chicagotribune.com

Feedback is good. Ready for 2030 with a new keeper and centerbacks.

Belgium should in fact forfeit out of honor

If I was a billionaire I'd absolutely spend my money on paying the salary of a cool World Cup soccer coach. Way more fun than buying a Basquiat or your Nth joyless real estate transaction let alone politics, the worst of all options

I need Joe from Mount Greenwood to get worked up over the statement from the Royal Belgian Football Association, call into 670 The Score and try to pronounce the name "Folarin Balogun"

Maybe they watched highlights of Paraguay players punching French players with closed fists without consequence and decided that Balogun setting his feet with his back to a player and accidentally stepping on his foot wasn't that bad

FIFA got wind of the conspiracy and has re-elected Balogun to the round of 16

Flo should claim the next World Cup game was illegally stolen from him, lead a Stop the Steal rally on Monday afternoon in Seattle and then lead the J(uly)6 mob that evening to the gates of Lumen Field in time for kick off

USMNT got me hyped. Dominating the game with 10 men let's gooooo