Andy Haynes
TODAY 7:00 PM • $34
“Andy Haynes, third floor above Superior St, doing an hour of actual jokes”
37 things happening in Chicago over the next seven days, 10 of them free. Comedy, live music, art openings, food pop-ups, nightlife and the weird stuff nobody else bothers to list.
TODAY 7:00 PM • $34
“Andy Haynes, third floor above Superior St, doing an hour of actual jokes”

TMRW 1:00 PM • Free
“Cheap records, SP-404 lessons and DJs for crate diggers. Free in, workshop's $15.”
MON 12:00 PM • Free
“Two-hour play session about rabbits: Playboy bunny, witch hare, twitching prey. Noon. Free.”
The Insect Asylum, Logan Square
TUE 7:00 PM • TBD
“Play music surrounded by taxidermy bugs and adoptable cats. Tuesday sorted.”
WED 6:30 PM • $32
“Pin a beetle to a board and take it home. Yes this is a real Wednesday.”

TODAY 8:00 PM • See Website
“Sweaty piano rock-n-roll. Adam Weiner climbs the speakers. You leave a believer.”

TODAY 11:00 PM • See tickets
“Ragie Ban, Braydon Terzo and Clowver run Prysm from 11pm to 4:30am. Pace yourself.”
TODAY 11:00 PM • $25
“Dan Slater plays house, circuit and tech house till 5am. Fast pass skips the cover line”
TODAY 11:15 PM • $26
“11:15pm Saturday stand-up at Zanies. 21+, for people whose night isn't over yet.”
TMRW 1:00 AM • $5
“Organ, guitar, drums, 1am to 4am, $5 cover. The Green Mill's Saturday night refuses to end.”
TMRW 3:00 PM • Free
“Duane Powell's Sunday Service: join the congregation for a free 3pm set on the South Side”
TMRW 5:00 PM • $29
“Ultraviolence staged in a 100-year-old Polish theater. Viddy well, brothers.”
MON 7:00 PM • Free
“Free bingo run by drag queens in a country-western gay bar. Chicago is undefeated.”
Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville, Wrigleyville
MON 7:00 PM • Free
“Free Jeopardy in a movie theater bar. Finally your useless trivia pays off.”
TUE 10:00 AM • $5-$15
“Orwell's pigs take over the farm and rewrite the rules. A 10am Tuesday show, darkly funny.”

TUE 8:00 PM • See Website
“Cinematic Oklahoma indie that sounds like a Western you cry to. Bring a coat.”
Estelle's Cafe & Pub, Wicker Park
TUE 11:00 PM • See website
“DJ Papa G takes Estelle's at 11pm on a Tuesday. Wednesday is somebody else's problem.”
Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Other
WED 12:15 PM • Free
“Free lunch-hour cello and piano: Boulanger, Japanese folk songs, a 25-minute Clarke rhapsody.”
WED 6:00 PM • $71
“Learn to build the casserole Chicago insists is pizza. Eat the evidence.”
THU 6:00 PM • $20
“An art historian argues about monuments while you drink in a museum”
Stars and Garters Theater, Other
THU 7:00 PM • $20-$25
“The 90s Animorphs books, script thrown out. You call the morphs, improvisers save the planet.”
Hydrate Nightclub, Wrigleyville
THU 11:00 PM • $5-$20
“Horror drag at 11pm: Dragula Season 7's Areal Haunting joins Vanda LaRose's killer lineup”

THU 11:30 PM • Free
“Gabber, hardcore and baile funk at 11:30 on a Thursday. Free, and not gentle about it.”
National Public Housing Museum, Other
FRI 11:30 AM • Free
“Lunchtime Potawatomi storytelling talk, plus a buffet of indigenous food from Ketapanon Kitchen.”
FRI 7:00 PM • $29
“Ultraviolence staged in a 100-year-old Wicker Park theater. Viddy well, brothers.”

FRI 11:00 PM • $0-$21
“Monthly Caribbean party in Uptown, 11pm start. Soca, dancehall, afrobeats until you can't”

FRI 11:00 PM • See tickets
“Natalia Roth, Iváno Lima and Phlury at Prysm from 11pm to 3:30am. 21+. Nap first.”
FRI 11:30 PM • See tickets
“Martin plays throwbacks, Top 40 and Latin till 4am on Halsted. Set starts 11:30. Dance.”
SAT 1:00 AM • $5
“Friday night refuses to end: the 1am jazz jam with Marquis Hill. Five bucks at the door.”
SAT 3:00 PM • Free
“Free Saturday-afternoon live magazine at the Green Mill. Doors 1pm, show 3-5, get there early”
The Insect Asylum, Logan Square
SAT 6:30 PM • $32
“Mount a giant dead bug in a museum full of them. Best date night in Chicago.”

SAT 11:00 PM • See tickets
“Enrico Sangiuliano techno at Prysm until 4:30am. Doors 10pm, 11pm start. Pace yourself.”
Updated November 13, 2026