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In 2016, a video of Ashley “Slim” Stevenson performing a goosebump-inducing cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” on the Washington Blue Line platform went viral. Since then it’s racked up more than 25 million YouTube views, and until the pandemic stopped her, Stevenson continued to sing and strum her acoustic guitar for appreciative commuters. On April 16, she released a full-length of her own knockout songs, Freedom, recorded with local producer Prov Krivoshey. The album deftly captures her sublime guitar work and soulful vocals–with no interruptions from passing trains! “I do eventually hope to perform at the Washington Blue Line again, because it’s where I felt the most free as a musician,” Stevenson says. “But the next goal is to start traveling and creating new content.” For now, you can download Freedom from Bandcamp!

Since debuting in 2018, Hitter have become one of Chicago’s most ferocious bands, and the hi-watt dirt rock on their debut LP, Hard Enough, could power the city’s electrical grid! Singer Hanna “Hazard” Johnson (formerly of Lil Tits), Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak, and guitarist Adam Luksetich (former Foul Tip bassist and Johnson’s bandmate in Lifestyles) recorded the album in October. Bassist Patrick Woodall joined after the sessions, and Hitter dropped the album last week via Bandcamp. “With a lockdown in full swing and no end in sight, it seems that this is actually the best time to self-release our record,” says Johnson. “Why sit on this piece of rock ‘n’ roll gold until things hopefully someday return to normal?” This wolf couldn’t agree more!

Last week local indie-pop six-piece Spun Out (which includes former Ne-Hi members Michael Wells and James Weir) dropped a sparkling new single, “Such Are the Lonely,” that embraces the bouncy melancholy of golden-age New Order. It’d sound really great on a packed dance floor–here’s hoping we can all get together on one soon! v

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been doing her best to make sure her citizens have been staying at home. After her no-nonsense stare inspired dozens of memes to start trending on social media, Mayor Lightfoot has been using social media to spread her message of Stay Home, Save Lives. Now, Mayor Lightfoot has started a YouTube channel to encourage her constituents to stay home and spread information about the current situation in Chicago.

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Every day, Mayor Lightfoot hosts a session entitled “The Doctor Is In: Ask Dr. Arwady,” where Dr. Allison Arwady, the CDPH commissioner, provides the latest updates on the pandemic. This live Q&A includes a guest who helps provide tips to Chicagoans on a variety of topics, including connecting with others during the quarantine, reducing your risk, and explaining the latest data about coronavirus. If you have any COVID-19-related questions, you can ask them on twitter with the hashtag #AskDrArwady.

In addition to this segment, Mayor Lightfoot is hosting a “Stay Home. Hit Play.” series. Each week, she will visit a museum like the Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art, Lincoln Park Zoo, and the DuSable Museum Art Institute.

Every Wednesday, she’ll provide a behind-the-scenes look at these institutions. In her first episode—posted on April 29—she visited the Shedd Aquarium and learned about some of the 32,000 animals that lived in the aquarium, including penguins and sharks. After watching the “Stay Home. Hit Play.” videos, you can check out the city’s website to find worksheets that include craft ideas, fact sheets, coloring pages, and more activities you can do with your children while self-isolating.

Check out the YouTube channel to stay up to date in all coronavirus news in Chicago. Also posted are videos from the city council, press corps, and task force meetings so you can see what is going on behind the scenes.

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Cinco de Mayo will be a little different this year. Bars and restaurants are closed but that doesn’t mean you can’t fiesta at home! But before you go loco, make sure you brush up on your history — it’s a common misconception that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day. However, the day is intended to commemorate the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla. Although we’d love to celebrate with authentic Mexican food and cocktails, quarantine is still a thing. So instead, break out the tequila and channel your inner bartender with these amazing margarita recipes.

Spicy Jalapeño Margarita

If you’re looking to spice things up, toss hot peppers into your drink! The heat from the jalapeño helps balance the sweetness from the elderflower liqueur (or triple sec if you have that on hand). Pro Tip: wear latex gloves when handling peppers. The seeds can be especially hot and if juice gets on your skin, it will sting. Badly. Sincerely, someone who’s been injured by jalapeño peppers. Get the full recipe here.

San Antonio Margarita

Here’s an authentic margarita that’s decades old. This special recipe was featured in the New York Times from San Antonio resident, Josie Davidson. But this isn’t your average concoction, it was handed down from Josie’s father who got it from Mario Cantu, owner of Mario’s, an old-line Mexican restaurant in San Antonio. Get the full recipe here.

Dole Whip Margarita

If you’ve ever had Disneyland’s famous Dole Whip dessert, you’ll fall in love with this adult version in drink form. Perfect for warmer weather or if you’re craving a sweet treat, this margarita combines creamy coconut milk, lime juice, and frozen pineapple that hits the spot. Pro tip: if you don’t have a pastry bag (who does?!), you can easily use a gallon-sized Ziplock bag instead. Just fill it up and snip the bottom edge of the bag when you’re ready to serve! Get the full recipe here.

Color Changing Margaritas

Want to wow your friends? Mix up these impressive margaritas that use purple cabbage to get that vibrant, fluorescent purple color. And don’t worry, your margarita won’t taste like a salad. The cabbage is flavorless and just for aesthetics. Get the full recipe here.

Blanco Margarita

The key ingredient in this margarita is Don Julio Blanco Tequila which is produced at La Primavera Distillery in the Highlands of Jalisco, Mexico. So basically, you’re getting a taste of Mexico with every sip. Get the full recipe here. Salud!

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Award-winning Chicago pastry chef Mindy Segal has created THC-infused desserts that are inspired by her own favorite candies and chocolates. She has partnered with local cannabis company, Cresco Labs, to create her line of Chef Led Artisanal Edibles that consist of gummies, hard sweets, chocolates, and fruit chews.

Mindy Segal, owner of Mindy’s HotChocolate, a Chicago staple, joined with Cresco to concoct and test over 20 flavors of candy. They dwindled down these flavors to their favorite six and transformed them into their final gummy and candy forms, delicious little things you can buy right here in Chicago. Below we dive into the six flavors of Mindy’s new THC-infused edibles and where she got her inspiration for each.

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Featuring flavors of honeydew and cantaloupe — with a touch of honey and slight fruity-floral lychee notes — these delicious Honey Sweet Melon bites are a delight for your palate. 🍈

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Honey Sweet Melon

Sorbet was the inspiration behind the Honey Sweet Melon candy. Mindy takes cantaloupe, pours honey over and lets it sit for about a week before then making it into a sorbet. The gummy captures the honey-drenched melon essence and has hints of floral lychee in it as well.

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Today we’re thankful for a world full of flavors old, new, and yet to be discovered 💚

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Cool Keylime Kiwi

Whenever Mindy eats key lime cheesecake, she automatically thinks of kiwis. So she wanted to merge the two flavors together; she starts by juicing fresh kiwi then folds it into batter, which she puts on top of a graham cracker crust. The result is a tropical, bright, and sweet treat with a citrus bite.

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Staying in and staying satisfied. Which gummy flavor is getting you through?

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Fresh Picked Berries

Although it seems simple, the fresh-picked berries flavor is actually the most complex of Mindy’s flavors. She takes several preserves and compotes and sandwiches them between shortbread cookies. Then she mixes all the preserves and layers them into a Linzer torte flavored with pistachio and orange blossom. We definitely are impressed with the flavor combination.

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Tonight, the New Year’s glitz and glam begins with gummies. May 2020 be the year of the Mistress of Deliciousness!

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Glazed Clementine Orange

You won’t find just orange in this candy, Mindy uses kumquat, tangerine, and clementine to get the orange flavor to pop. To get that powerful flavor into gummy form she distills candied peels from these different fruits to transform them into the candy we love.

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Weekends are for juicy Botanical White Grapefruit deliciousness. 😋 Link in bio to make chef-led edibles part of yours.

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Botanical White Grapefruit

Mindy was inspired to create this flavor by the Greyhound cocktail, a combination of grapefruit and gin. She juices white grapefruit, which adds a sweetness to the traditionally tart grapefruit flavor, and adds gin to it. She then blends it into a sorbet and you just can’t help being reminded of a fresh, cool summer cocktail on a hot day.

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It feels like Friday with our new deliciously dosed Lush Black Cherry 1:1 gummies. Indulge in edibles that taste like jars of cherries soaked in cabernet and luxardo with hints of orange and vanilla 🍒

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Lush Black Cherry

Cherry-flavored candies can often end up tasting like cough syrup, which Mindy desperately wanted to avoid. Instead, she simmers cherries until they become thick and glossy. The resulting gummy has an almondy sweetness with hints of vanilla, citrus, and cocoa — a far cry from traditional cherry flavors.

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It won’t be another “season under the stars” in Chicago as Ravinia has been forced to cancel its 2020 summer season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the second time since Ravinia opened in 1904, the Highland Park festival will be closed. The last time this happened was in 1932 – 1935 when the “music died” during the Great Depression.

Ravinia, the oldest music festival in the country, planned a full schedule of 120 events from June 12 through September 16, including the annual summer residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Anyone who purchased tickets can receive refunds or vouchers for future performances or can convert those funds into much-needed, tax-deductible donations.

Late last year, Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman announced that 2020 would be his final season at the helm. Kauffman explained the factors driving this decision prioritized the health and safety of Ravinia’s artists, audiences, staff, and neighbors, and follows similar cancellations of other summer festivals.

Since February, Ravinia has been working with its guest artists—some of whom have already canceled their entire 2020 summer tours—to determine how best to proceed, including opportunities to rebook these performers into future seasons. Ravinia’s leadership has also been closely monitoring the evolving warnings of local, state, and national authorities to avoid large gatherings.

“Ravinia benefits from an informed and responsible Board of Trustees and engaged family of volunteers and our lengthy and thorough discourse on this topic has brought us to the conclusion that it is impossible to move ahead with the season,” Kauffman said.

Ravinia will continue to provide “virtual” opportunities such as the May 15 PBS broadcast of Bernstein’s Mass filmed last summer. Kauffman emphasized that he and the Ravinia staff are developing ideas to give the festival a “from home” presence across social platforms.

“The crisis created by the Covid pandemic has impacted so much of our lives in dramatic ways. Ravinia will do its part in helping the nation recover,” said Ravinia Board Chairman Don Civgin, “and we will celebrate that recovery with music under the stars next summer.”

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Last month, the NFL held this year’s draft for the upcoming season in a virtual format due to the Coronavirus pandemic. League coaches and GMs showed off their homes via video conference calls, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the picks from his home. The draft took place over the course of three days, and despite the lack of Chicago Bears draft picks in the first round, it was still plenty of fun to watch.

In the first round, the Cincinnati Bengals selected LSU quarterback, Joe Burrow, with the first overall pick. Three more quarterbacks followed him in the first round, the final one going to the Green Bay Packers. Tick tock, Rodgers… 

Ohio State Buckeye’s Chase Young and Jeff Okudah fell second and third to the Redskins and Lions. And the Miami Dolphins ended up with Tua Tagovailoa from Alabama with the fifth pick in the draft. By day two of the draft, the Bears were on the clock with the 43rd pick.

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Introducing This Year’s Bear’s Draft Picks

Over the course of the three days, Pace, Nagy, and Co. acquired 7 new players. Even though we missed out on seeing the Bears pick in the first round for the second year in a row, things still went well. 

The Bears’ first draft choice, Notre Dame tight end Cole Kmet, can be seen as good or bad depending on who you ask. For one, Kmet is poised to have an immediate impact as the top-ranked at his position in the draft. On the flip side, the Bears currently have a league-high nine tight ends on their roster.

With two picks in the second round, the Bears selected cornerback Jaylon Johnson 50th overall with their second draft pick. With Johnson set up to start on defense right away, he becomes one of the more valuable picks the team made. The remainder of the Bears draft picks came on day three in the fifth and seventh rounds as the team added depth to the pass rush, receiver corps, O-line, and CB room. Only time will tell, but we definitely hope these picks pan out for the Bears next season!

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As our active role in solving the pandemic problem is being inactive and staying at home, beginner artists are turning to the canvas as an outlet. As Chicagoans, we’re constantly interacting with an environment that promotes creativity. While we’re at home, we can take a page out of artist Tony Fitzpatrick’s book and create work about the past, present, and hopes for the future.

Chicago-based artist Tony Fitzpatrick is best known for drawing, collages, and printmaking. His work is inspired by Chicago street culture – the things we see on our way to the bus, on the train, and outside our office windows. His work can be politically charged, or more focused on aesthetics. At its base, art is our interpretation or physical, emotional, and mental environment. While we’re disconnected from a lot of our regular coping skills, take a look around you and draw what you can see.

1. Grab some paper, size doesn’t matter. It can be big or small, lined or unlined, and some kind of writing utensil, like a pen or colored pencils.
2. Is there a spot you have been spending time in lately? Whether it is your kitchen table, backyard, or a bench in the park — go there.
3. There’s a reason you’ve been drawn to this place and we’re here to explore it. It could be as simple as a spot in the grass at your local park. It could be indoors in a room such as the living room. There could be a bookshelf with your favorite titles or plants that you’ve obsessively overwatered.
4. Take whatever it is your eye is drawn to in #3 and write it down on paper. If compelled to write words, journal. If courageous enough to draw, do so. Or do both! (If you’re stuck here, don’t fret. Look up, what do you see? Sky? Draw the clouds. A ceiling? Describe the light fixture. Turn your head a few degrees and repeat.)
5. You’ve just made your first sketch. This is yours. This is your interpretation of the world around you. You made this!
6. What to do from here is your choice. Whether you change your environment or revisit the same place the next day, keep sketching. No expectations but to observe and record.
7. (Optional) Expand your arsenal. Grab some old magazines and make a collage. Dig up colored pens or grab some paint from Blick and add/subtract color, merge mediums like pencil and pen, and keep going.

Tony Fitzpatrick likes to make “Lunch Drawings.” It’s his way of processing his day without any expectation but to observe and record what he sees, feels, and hears. Describe what’s on your plate, write about what you’ve seen others doing during quarantine, or draw the spring bulbs popping up in your backyard. When it comes to healthy coping mechanisms during a quarantine, we’re forced to push ourselves into new territory. But that’s nothing new for Chicago.

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Cinco de Mayo in Chicago is usually a marker of the warm summer days to come. The date is originally a celebration of the Mexican army’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. While it’s a minor holiday in Mexico, the United States celebrates the win in a major way. The city bustles with parties, cookouts, and turns towards the Mexican restaurant scene for tacos, Tecate, and tequila. This year, we’ve got to be creative in our celebrations. Here’s a list of restaurants that are offering to go tacos, margarita kits, and carryout specials to get us in the fiesta spirit.

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Thank you for all your support this weekend! We became a bit overwhelmed turning into a carry out restaurant but have ironed out the kinks! Ordering for next weekend through cinco de mayo will be through email only at [email protected] We look forward serving you next weekend and celebrating cinco de Mayo with you! Thank you for your all social media love and support! 🙏🏼 Great shot! 📸: @ashnordsdeger

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Dos Urban Cantina

The Chicago staple is offering special family-style meals. Starring chipotle chicken tacos or tamal Azteca (Mexican lasagna), the meals will include sides and dessert – enough to feed four. They’ve also collaborated with Bang Bang Pie to create the “Bang Bang Margarita Pie,” it’s key lime pie meets tequila.

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New location, new look, new tacos. Opening in #Streeterville this spring. Enter for a chance to win tacos for a year in our bio!

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Tallboy Taco

Tallboy Taco has put together their signature recipes into DIY kits. There’s a bundle for guacamole, a taco bar, and margaritas – they’ve even included a triple sec and simple syrup. Pre-batch these two, add provided tequila (or your own), and you’re golden.

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The Trifecta: Cuero, Buche, y Maciza 📸 @dennisburnettphotography

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Carnitas Uruapan

This Pilsen joint is a carnitas lover haven. Order carnitas by the pound, housemade chicharrones, nopales con queso, and more. Definitely grab the escabeche — a concoction of pickled jalapenos, carrots, and onions. Topo Chico, too.

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5 Rabanitos

5 Rabanitos in Pilsen is offering a special menu for carryout and neighborhood delivery. Warmer spring days and Caldo de res go together like Arroz y frijoles. Start there, then live life lavishly with the carne asada or cochinita pibil, and finish with the housemade Horchata.

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Celebrate with us #athome for 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼! We have the ultimate survival kits: 6 Micheladas + 8 Tacos for $45 • Avion Spicy Marg Mini Kit + Surprise Swag $30 • Dobel Spicy Marg Kit $50 🌶️ Link in bio to order your kit for pick up on Tuesday, May 5. We are now live on Tock. 🙌🏾 #arbellachicago #celebrateathome #cincodemayo

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Arbella

The River North cocktail bar is offering some awesome libations. There’s a list of offerings including a michelada and taco kit, and two spicy margarita kits — each with different accouterment.

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Classic? Smoky? Boozy? We got you. Our Margarita Kit is a party in a box so you can put your own twist on #cincodemayo at home. Preorders available now!

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Family style “fiesta en casa” with these all-inclusive family meals. Featuring a wood-fired short rib barbacoa picnic with tortillas, rice, beans, salad, and tres leches cake. There’s an option to upgrade and add enchiladas Rojas, shrimp ceviche, and pork belly elote. Sombrero bendy straws available with margarita kits.

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This is what we’re calling our quarantine wellness kit. 📸: @chicagofoodgirl

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Foxtrot

Mezcal-based margaritas have cocktail lovers divided. Foxtrot is offering a Bahnez margarita basket that includes Combier and limes. Delivery or pickup.

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🚨 Cinco de Mayo Margarita Kits are LIVE and available for DELIVERY on Tuesday! 🚨 We’ll have a limited number of kits available at Wicker Park & Wrigleyville so run, don’t walk to the link in our bio 🏃‍♀️ 🌮☀️

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Big Star

Big Star may not be the most authentic spot on this list, but to deny the greatness of their margarita is downright wrong. They’re re-opening both the Wicker Park and Wrigleyville locations just in time for la fiesta. Order curbside pick up or delivery ahead of time.

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Furious Spoon

The devil works hard, but Furious Spoon works harder. Elevate your fiesta game with the Furious Couch Margarita or Ol’ Dirty Quarantine. There’s not much for Mexican food here, but they are also offering a beer pong back and a sake bomb kit. Party on.

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“We’re all in this together.” It’s a phrase you hear a lot these days— from corporations, arts organizations, celebrities, or maybe even your neighbors. Some people really put those words into practice, and a few of them happen to be the folks at Barrel Maker Printing.

Shortly after the cancelation and shut-down of many events and local small businesses in March, the printing operation—based in north suburban Buffalo Grove—established an online store selling T-shirts which tout their wearers’ support of a number of Chicago institutions.

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Barrel Maker was started in 2009 by Erin and Justin Moore and has been printing shirts since then for occasions and establishments both large and small. Knowing that many Chicagoans in the service industry were out of work— as well as the print shop’s similar position of reduced income— Barrel Maker employees connected with record stores, venues, restaurants, and more to coordinate the launch of their Saving Small Business Chicago online shop.

Participating businesses either submit artwork to be used for their shirt designs or are each paired with a Chicago artist to create a new design. For each T-shirt purchased, $10 is set aside for a fund to be split between all participating businesses. A few of the designs currently featured on the Barrel Maker’s online shop include shirts supporting Avondale music venue Sleeping Village, Logan Square’s Chicago Diner, Wicker Park gem Quimby’s Bookstore, and more.

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Barrel Maker is also facilitating separate online platforms for businesses to sell merchandise and accept tips that can be used to specifically benefit their own furloughed workers. With so many out of work and in a holding pattern while they wait to see what comes next, those employed by these small businesses need all the help they can get— and thankfully, there are people like those at Barrel Maker Printing who are ready and eager to help.

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Bars might be closed around the country, but the show must go on! Drag queens have moved online to provide virtual entertainment to everyone cooped up at home due to the continuing shelter-in-place order. Here are 10 virtual drag shows to check out during your quarantine.

Sophia Lucia Presents: Freak Show Cabaret!

Saturdays @ 4 pm

This one-woman show has it all! Art, poems, stories, and music delivered to you by the insatiable Sophia Lucia. She has created her own style of theatrical anti-folk/funk/spoken-word/rock & roll music. Check her out every Saturday from 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm.

Flip Phone

All Week Long

Flip Phone hosts drag shows nearly every day, so you are sure to find something that piques your interest. You can check out dance parties, story hours, drag shows, and themed brunches at various days and times.

Sin & Gin Online Cabaret – ‘Cos’ What May!

May 17 @ 8:15 pm

Join in for a fun-filled evening with burlesque, drag, cabaret, music, and comedy. The online event will feature talented people from around the world and takes place on May 17 at 8:15 pm.

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A brand new MINI MATINEE is TUESDAY w/ performances by SPECIAL GUEST @cremefatale [LA], @kenziecoulee, @siichele, #CrashLanding champs @missalexkay, @jerfayvorite, & @americapwrs , & host @trexinchicago! 10PM CST right here! 👑MINI MATINEE is a 30 min show every Tuesday & Thursday at 10PM CST on this insta! We’re going to have some amazing special guests but mainly a LOT of Chicago faces & always a totally different cast!

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Mini Matinee

Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 10 pm

Twice a week, you can watch a 30-minute drag show with some impressive guest stars, but with a heavy emphasis on Chicago residents. Each week will feature a rotating cast, so it will always be unique. The shows will be every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00 pm – 10:30 pm.

Illusions- The Drag Queen Show

All Week Long

The drag show combines burlesque dancing and comedy performances by some of your favorite impersonators and hosts from Chicago! You’ll see impersonations of Cher, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cardi B, Adele, and Amy Winehouse. Dates are available all month long.

Throwback Attack

May 11 @ 9 pm

This online drag show will be a ’90s-themed throwback, incorporating two of your favorite queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race—Detox and Sonique. The event is hosted by Tenderoni and will take place on May 11 at 9 pm.

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Hot Mess: Digital Drag Show – Who is She?

Fridays @ 9 pm

Once a week, you can tap into one of the biggest drag events online. It will have everything you want from a drag show: Kings, Queens, and Gender Jesters. The event is free and takes place on Fridays at 9 pm.

MyOhMy Show – A Drag Show Extravaganza!

May 29 @ 8 pm

This two-hour long show is filled with breathtaking costumes, amazing performances, and catchy music. Some of the impersonators include Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey. Check out the show on May 29 at 8 pm.

HD Drag On Demand

May 9 @ 8 pm

To get your laughs in during the quarantine, check out this drag show with a comedic twist. The 3-hour long event will be packed with entertainers and comedy. Catch the show on May 9 at 8 pm.

homeWERK: A Drag and Comedy Show

Thursdays @ 9 pm

Once a week, you can join the hilarious line of drag queens as they perform a comedy show. Some of the entertainers include Calpernia Adams, Jewels, Allusia, and Melanie Vesey. They will be performing every Thursday at 9 pm.

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