Local music venues were among the first businesses to close and the last to reopen. Amid COVID-19, Evanston SPACE created the Summer Stage concert series, a socially-distant live music experience. Closed...

Since the start of COVID-19, independent music venue Metro Chicago’s staff has dropped from 125 employees to eight. Joe Carsello, a talent buyer at Metro, said his team is trying to adapt by launching...

As businesses across Illinois continue to reopen, concert venues are keeping their stage doors locked. “This is a really unique sector of business because (live music venues are) not reopening,”...