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Dad. Daddy. Papa. Pops. Old man. FATHER. Father’s Day will be celebrated On Sunday, June 18, 2023 this year, and is a day when awesome fathers are recognized and honored. For children, it is a day to show appreciation for their fathers and father figures. For adults, whether your own father, spouse, significant other, father…

Juneteenth is derived from ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’, and is the day that commemorates the freeing of all enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War.  This blog will take you on a tour of its origination, history, and why it is a true day of celebration. Juneteenth marks our country’s…

The Chicago Blues Fest returns to Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park! Chicago has quite a history singing the ‘down home blues’, with its own world-known artists, such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, Junior Wells, and Little Walter, to name a few.  Ray Charles, Ma Rainey (the ‘Queen of the Blues’), Etta James,…