After a rare off-night Friday, Gary SouthShore RailCats pitchers brought their best stuff to The Steel Yard and stifled the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks to pull out an impressive 2-1 victory. 

The 2021 Frontier League Champion Schaumburg Boomers played sudden death for the first time in franchise history, suffering a 5-4 loss to the Washington Wild Things in 11 innings before a raucous crowd of over 6,000 on Saturday night.

Chicago Fire FC (3-7-5, 14 points) defeated D.C. United (4-8-2, 14 points) 1-0 at Soldier Field on Saturday night, as the Club celebrated Juneteenth along the lakefront.

**** Highly Recommended **** The Second City’s 110th Mainstage Revue, "Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not" is downright hilarious.  Everywhere I looked, the folks in the audience were laughing – not polite little titters, either – I’m talking guffaws!  Unlike recent revues, this one isn’t angry or political or even newsy – although there was one funny sketch about doddering senior citizens which ended with the zinger – do we really want to elect these guys?  I haven’t laughed so much in years!  4 BIG Spotlights 

South Shore Roller Derby, Northwest Indiana’s premiere flat track roller derby league, announces their home opener game in Crown Point.

29th annual Artists of the Wall Festival returns to Rogers Park on Father’s Day weekend June 18th-19th | Free interactive festival on Loyola Beach features 160 vibrant murals, 12 live bands, dance performances, and kids’ activities

GRAND (RE)OPENING: PETE’S DUELING PIANO BAR ROSEMONT | Pete's Dueling Piano Bar is back! Ribbon cutting and celebration Thursday, June 23

South Shore Arts Announces Summer Exhibit, running June 17th–August 27th

Read the latest addition to “Highlighting Hoosier Archaeological Sites: Examples from 92 Counties” by going to the Northwest Region of the Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology’s Storymap. Archaeologist Cathy Draeger-Williams has written about the Material Service shipwreck site (12LA641) in Lake County, IN. 

On June 16th, South Shore Convention & Visitors Authority (SSCVA) announced the 25th Anniversary of Just Around the Corner South Shore Poster Series. This series had its first formal public announcement on June 10, 1997, and was coincident with the announcement of the publication of the book “Moonlight in Duneland,” a pictorial collection of the South Shore Line posters of the 1920’s, photographs of the era, and the history of the South Shore Line, in part illustrated by Mitch Markovitz.