You’ve got to hand it to the University of Chicago for releasing the findings of a study that calls out the City of Chicago for not nurturing its hometown music scene, right on the heels of the most lucrative 3 days on the city’s annual music calendar. The study examined the economic impact of the music industry on the 50 most populous metro areas of America, pulling together data like number of jobs related to......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In other......

A sense of entitlement abounds this week, as Chicagoland residents defended their rights to pee on the floor at weddings, to expect courtesy from the mailman, to board airplanes without a ticket, to teach neighbors a lesson by planting drugs on their teenage sons, and to smoke crack in the comfort of their own cars: Last Saturday, two men attacked an off-duty police officer who was working security at a wedding after he confronted one......

A couple of quick-hitters this week as most of Chicagoland kept its prize-winning material in check: On Monday, police in south suburban Crete announced that two women who were attacked by a squirrel are just fine, to the relief of people everywhere who had been holding candlelight vigils for their safety. Also on Monday, a Gary man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his girlfriend, he said, because she was driving him......

The short-hand version: Eisley is primarily a group of talented siblings (a la Hanson) who will be appearing in Chicago to perform a free show at Double Door tonight. The long-hand version: Eisley started garnering buzz after an appearance at the South By Southwest festival a few years ago. Much of the buzz was built on the band both being incredibly young and primarily composed of siblings. Much ado (almost a creepy amount of ado)......