Concerts and club nights tonight in Chicago

How the Chicago map works

• Each poster sits on the room it’s in; when a room has several shows that night they stack, so page through them.
• Narrow the night to festivals, or by genre (Electronic, Hip-hop & R&B, Jazz & Soul, Rock & Indie and more) when enough of its shows are tagged.
• Listings without a confirmed location stay in the list, marked as not on the map.
• The enc0re app for iPhone is where you save shows to your Queue and rank them afterwards.

Where Chicago goes out

Chicago is where house music was born, and its blues and jazz history runs deep, much of it on the South Side. Today the nights spread out along the train lines. Wicker Park, Bucktown and Logan Square, on the Blue Line, have indie rooms, cocktail bars and late DJ nights. Up the Red Line, Lakeview and Uptown mix rock clubs with grand old theatres. River North and the West Loop carry the bigger clubs and lounges, Pilsen has galleries, DIY spaces and Latin nights, and Bronzeville and Hyde Park keep the South Side’s music close.

Summer changes the city: the lakefront and the parks fill with outdoor festivals and street fests, so try the Festivals filter.

Getting around at night

• The Red Line and the Blue Line run around the clock; most other lines wind down late, and night buses cover the main routes.
• Most bars close at 2 AM, but late-licence bars can stay open until 4 AM, or 5 AM on Saturday night.
• Winter nights are bitter, so check how far the room is from the train before you go.

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