Weird Shit in Chicago

Chicago Magic Lounge, Andersonville

TODAY 4:00 PM • $61.50

“Card tricks six inches from your face inside a fake laundromat”

Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park

TUE 7:00 PM • See Website

“Ghost stories at the zoo after dark. The animals definitely know things.”

Chicago Magic Lounge, Andersonville

WED 7:00 PM • See Website

“One magician, one night, a secret door in Andersonville. Sit close, watch his hands.”

The Chicago Theatre, Other

FRI 7:30 PM • See Website

“The creepy-story podcast guy, out loud, in the dark. Bring an arm to grab.”

Humboldt Park, Other

SAT 9:00 AM • $75-164

“Run a 5K at 9am, then Diplo DJs while you cramp. Somehow this sells out.”

Park West, Lincoln Park

OCT 7 7:30 PM • See Website

“Guys in giant eyeball masks play a 1979 album about the Arctic. Yes, really.”

Empty Bottle, Other

OCT 8 9:00 PM • $23

“Swamp-organ mayhem plus a puppet show. Aaron Dilloway brings the tape loops.”

Museum of Post Punk & Industrial Music, Bridgeport

OCT 9 6:30 PM • $45

“PiL/Ministry drummer walks you through his own industrial-music hoard in Bridgeport”