After shifting to a virtual songwriting contest last year, the Bitter Jester Music Festival is back full force and in person this summer. The weekly competition series launches at 6:45 p.m. Friday ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- They returned to Highland Park Sunday to do what they love for a community in need of love. "Being a part of something that's re-inventing itself and we're kind taking ...

The City of Highland Park will allow alcohol sales at the Bitter Jester band competitions in June for the first time since the Friday evening events were started more than a dozen years ago. The ...

Five-time Grammy-nominated, chart-topping country artist Sam Hunt brings his “Outskirts Tour 2024” to Rosemont this weekend, joined by special guests Brett Young and Lily Rose. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb ...

Pro-democracy activists hold photos of detained activists and those kept under surveillance including Liu Xia, left, and her husband and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, center, and Ding Zilin, ...

Eight bands will compete July 4 in the Bitter Jester Music Festival at Wolters Field in Highland Park with a shot to perform at Navy Pier later in the summer Bitter Jester Music Festival bills itself ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., March 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Bitter Jester Music Festival returns for its 16th season of live concerts this May and is now seeking bands and solo musicians to apply ...