What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on May 12, 2014 2:00PM
- To celebrate the release of a new single, legendary Chicago record store Wax Trax! Records will return as a pop-up record shop for one day only.
- The Tree House Humane Society hosts its fifth annual Kitten Shower benefit May 17th. KITTENS!!!
- The Hancock Tilt, which opened Saturday, dangles you 1,000 feet above downtown Chicago. Sounds like fun!
- Chicago’s most notorious serial killer was put to death at Stateville Correctional Center twenty years ago today. Karen Conti, one of John Wayne Gacy's attorneys, remembers his final days.
- In Pictures: Croatian American Day 2014. Enjoy the beautiful photo gallery.
- Nine people were wounded in citywide shootings from Saturday to Sunday. At the start of the weekend, four people were shot, and two people were killed.
- Local soul pop duo M&O [formerly Milo & Otis] talked to us about their new album, Almost Us.
- Fans of free jazz and affordable coffee will be delighted to learn that the Chicago Jazz Fest and Dark Matter Coffee have teamed up to make 'Astro-Black,' a limited-edition blend that pays tribute to jazz legend and Afrofuturist pioneer Sun Ra.
- Federal authorities are investigating the theft of assault rifles from a rail yard in Englewood earlier last week.
