Last night, Green Day continued the 2024 Saviors Tour after being forced to postpone Saturday’s show in Hershey, PA as a result of frontman Billie Joe Armstrong losing his voice. After three days of rest, the iconic punk band were ready to take the stage once again. The band busted out 37 songs, including playing 1994’s Dookie and 2004’s American Idiot in full.

Setlist:

The American Dream Is Killing Me

Burnout
Having a Blast
Chump
Longview
Welcome to Paradise
Pulling Teeth
Basket Case
She
Sassafras Roots
When I Come Around
Coming Clean
Emenius Sleepus
In the End
F.O.D.
(With “Jack & Diane” by John Mellencamp intro)Play Video
All by Myself
(Orchestral version; Tré Cool solo)

Know Your Enemy (With fan Bridget singing end of song with BJA)
Look Ma, No Brains!
One Eyed Bastard
Dilemma
(With “Free Fallin'” by Tom Petty intro)
Minority
(With “Surrender” by Cheap Trick bridge plus band intros)
Brain Stew

American Idiot
Jesus of Suburbia
(Lyric change to “from Chicago to the Middle East”)
Holiday
(Lyric change to “the representative from Illinois has the floor”)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Are We the Waiting
St. Jimmy
Give Me Novacaine
She’s a Rebel
Extraordinary Girl
Letterbomb
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Homecoming
Whatsername
Bobby Sox

Encore:
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

We wish Billie Joe continued health for the rest of the tour, and we can’t wait to see him again soon in the Q101 Lounge.

Do you ever sit and think to yourself, “I wonder what Blago is doing right now?” Well, citizens of Elmwood Park learned over the weekend that Blago plays in a band and that band rocked out at Taste of Elmwood Park.

Blago was backed by The Drawers, “a cover band that focuses on rock tunes from the past and some original material.”

Obviously, of course, we’ll be reaching out to see if they want to play Twisted XMAS.

It was 20 years today that Dave Matthews Band dumped 800 pounds of feces into the Chicago River and onto an unexpecting crowd of tourists on a Chicago Architecture Foundation boat. Brett McNeil, a reporter for the Tribune at the time, told Block Club Chicago, “I sat toward the bow of the boat, so I didn’t have a very good view of what was happening to us…The docent didn’t grasp what was happening in real time, I think he thought we’d been hit with water. Then a passenger from the back of the boat said, ‘That’s not water, buddy; that’s urine.”

To compensate for the incident, Dave Matthews Band donated $50,000 to the Friends of the Chicago River and have been stuck living down the incident ever since.

It took nearly a month, but the White Sox have won a game. The White Sox have been winless since July 10, having lost 21 games in a row over that time period. Last night, the Sox beat the Oakland A’s 5-1, which finally stopped what seemed like an endless skid.

Since the last Sox win, the following events have happened:

-Trump was nearly assassinated

-The college football video game was released

-Lollapalooza came and went

With this win, the Sox now have 28 wins on the year.

Days after Buca di Beppo abruptly shuttered a number of locations across the country, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the court documents filed just before midnight on August 4, 2024, the Orlando-based company currently holds $0 to $50,000 in assets and owes at least $15 million – $50 million to at least 30 creditors.

The Orland Park location on South 94 Avenue will be one of the many casualties across the nation. There is no word on the Lombard location.

Q101 is proud to present a once-in-a-lifetime, exclusive event as we welcome Green Day to the Q101 Lounge on Monday August 12. This event, hosted by Lauren O’Neil, marks the first time that Green Day has played an intimate set like this for the first time in 15 years.

There are no tickets to this event – the only way to get in is to win. All this week, Q101 will be giving away Lounge passes to this event. Not only will winners see Green Day in the Lounge, but they will also be awarded tickets to the following night’s Green Day show at Wrigley Field.

When you hear 2x Green Day songs back to back, caller ten (10) to 312-591-8300 will win two (2) passes to Green Day in The Lounge on Monday, August 12^th AND two (2) tickets to Green Day at Wrigley Field on Tuesday, August 13th.

We can’t wait to celebrate these Green Days with you.

The Exchange Club of Naperville made the announcement on Tuesday that they’re calling it quits after 35 years of festivities. In a Facebook post, “As our lease expired in Naperville, there was not another location in town that we were offered that could hold the event. Covid came and we were not able to host the event for two years. We found a new location in Wheaton at the county fairgrounds but the costs of the event post covid were very high and we were not able to generate enough income to be profitable. It is with great sadness that we will not be able to continue on with Ribfest in the future.”

Ribfest, we love you, and we’ll miss you.

Sell the team, Jerry. Put us out of our misery.

Last night, the White Sox gave up six runs in the top of the 8th inning to extend their losing streak to 15 games, which is now the longest losing streak in franchise history. This came hours after Erick Fedde, Michael Kopech, and Tommy Pham were shipped away in a three-team trade.

The Sox continue their series against the Royals tonight.