What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 7 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Lisa White in News on May 4, 2015 2:00PM
- One Wisconsin town is causing a stir by requesting to tap Lake Michigan despite sitting outside the Great Lakes basin. The request is seen by many as a threat to the Great Lakes Compact, which is the legal protection that prevents other parts of the country from sucking the Lakes dry.
- Students and faculty at Columbia College Chicago staged a sit-in.
- We took at look at the revamped Rockit, including a new menu.
- A lot of people were not fans of our review of The Replacements concert at The Riv. Just a reminder, concert reviews are usually an opinion and probably not something you should fret that much over. Do you think The Replacements care what anyone thinks? Of course not. They're The Replacements!
- Things are getting worse for Barbara Byrd-Bennett, as the Sun-Times figured out that the owner of SUPES Academy, the company and contract under federal investigation, is a real piece of work.
- Ruido Festival, a fest backed by Riot Fest that focuses on Latin Alternative music, is coming to town this summer.
- In Around Town we checked out Draft Town and then aww'd over some adorable pups.