Win Tickets to Carnival of Madness at Toyota Park

Sign up for a Patch newsletter and enter for a chance to win five tickets to this weekend's concert at Toyota Park. Share this with your friends!

What's a better way to wind down the summer than by rocking out at a concert?  Enter your information in the form above to sign up for a Patch newsletter and you'll be entered to win tickets to this weekend's Carnival of Madness concert at the beautiful Toyota Park.  Patch has 12 sets of five (5) tickets each, so there are plenty of opportunities to win! Share this link with your friends so they enter, too. The show is this weekend, so enter quickly! The cutoff is 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24.  Keep an eye on your email inbox to see if you won. EDITOR'S NOTE: If you try submitting multiple entries for the same people, you'll still only be entered once. That's the rules. Speaking of rules, make sure to take a look at Patch's giveaway contest …

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Tips: Concert-Goers' Survival Guide to Lollapalooza

Music takes Chicago by storm this weekend with Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Keys and others playing in Grant Park. We know many from burbs venture to the city for the event. Get the details, tell us if you're going and who you want to see.

Squealing guitars, ambient electronics and soulful voices will be hanging in the air at Grant Park in Chicago this weekend as the Lollapalooza Music Festival comes to Chicago. This awesome music festival kicks off at 11:30 a.m. Friday and runs through 10 p.m. Sunday. If you don't already have a ticket, you may be out of luck. According to the Lollapalooza website, all entrance options are sold out—though you can probably snag a ticket at the gates. If you're a music fan, there's a ton of choice acts to check out, including Black Sabbath and The Black Keys dueling it out from either side of the park. But if heavy music isn't your thing, there's also Sigur Ros, Toro Y Moi and Frank Ocean to expand your musical horizons. Tinley Park was …

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School News: District 161

School Board Honors Summit Hill Baseball Team

Plus: Junior high symphonic band has fall and Veteran Days concerts on tap.

School News: It's not all about board of education meetings in local school school districts. We round up what students and staff are up to in the schools that make up Summit Hill School District 161. Have some School News for D161 to pass along? E-mail local editor Joe Vince at joev@patch.com. The Summit Hill School District 161 Board congratulated the Summit Hill Junior High boys baseball team at the board's Oct. 12 meeting. The Spartans earned second place in the Class 3A Illinois Elementary School Association state tournament in East Peoria, falling to Germantown Hills in the final round, 4-2. Two performances are on tap in the next few weeks for the Summit Hill Junior High Symphonic Band. On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the band will participate…

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Fall Fest Survival Guide: An Events Schedule of What's Happening When

Plan to venture over to Frankfort for this weekend's fall festival? Here's a rundown of what you'll find there. You're welcome.

The Frankfort Fall Festival —a premiere outdoor event in the Southland — began this week and will continue through the weekend on and around Breidert Green. Frankfort Patch will be covering the event, but we know Tinley Park residents will be there, too. So we've got your guide to the schedule of events. WANT TO READ MORE FRANKFORT FALL FESTIVAL STORIES? Subscribe to our Frankfort Fall Festival feed for more articles on the topic. Friday: 5pm-9:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday: 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Monday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The procession begins at 1 p.m. Sunday, at the corner of Maple and Pacific streets. A piece of the World Trade Center also will be part of this year's parade. Where: Breidert Green How much: Free SATURDAY, SEPT. 3 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: …

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Toby Keith to Rock Tinley Park

Local country fans ready for Saturday's Toby Keith show at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre.

On Sept. 18, Tinley is going country. Country music superstar Toby Keith is riding into to Tinley Park's First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre behind his 15th full-length studio album, American Ride. The concert will bring country fans from throughout the region to see what the Southland has to offer. "I've been to about five or six (Keith concerts)," said Tonia Drebos, who will be coming to Tinley from north suburban Niles for the show. "It's always a really fun time. It's a bunch of people singing out loud and having a good time. It's always laid back, relaxed and fun." For country music fan Richard Marchant, Keith's place is cemented in the country pantheon. "I started listening to him seven or eight years ago," Marchant said. "He's a good ol…

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