Automatic / Accessory
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Things to do in Chicago, October 2026
Browse 153 upcoming events and things to do in Chicago during October 2026. Venues include Empty Bottle, Reggies Rock Club, United Center. Highlights include Automatic / Accessory, Revocation, Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping, LE SSERAFIM - 2026 LE SSERAFIM 'PUREFLOW' TOUR IN CHICAGO and more. Each listing links to tickets, venue details and practical visitor info.
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Revocation, Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping
LE SSERAFIM - 2026 LE SSERAFIM 'PUREFLOW' TOUR
Bill Burr Live
Joe Russo's Almost Dead
Zach John King: Get To Drinkin' Tour
🎟️ Free entry
Owen Riegling - In The Feeling Tour with Payton Smith
🎟️ Free entry
Ministry and Acid Bath with Windhand
Doja Cat - Tour Ma Vie World Tour
Boy Harsher w/ Choir Boy
Alana Springsteen's I Hope This Helps Tour with Erin Kinsey
🎟️ From $139
Mt. Joy 2026: Celebrating 10 Years Of Mt. Joy
THE CHICKS - TAKING THE LONG WAY · Oct 4
Radioactivity
🎟️ From $21
Chicago Bears vs. New York Jets
The Revivalists with Robert Randolph
THE CHICKS - TAKING THE LONG WAY · Oct 5
My Hero Academia in Concert
JOURNEY - Final Frontier Tour (An Evening With)
Chicago Blackhawks vs. St. Louis Blues
Rescheduled
Chicago Fire FC vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Malcolm Todd: Do That Again Tour (MOVED TO THE SALT SHED OUTDOORS) · Oct 7
Kelela
Giovannie & The Hired Guns
🎟️ From $26
Mind Enterprises
🎟️ Free entry
EPIK HIGH 3.0 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
The Jungle Giants
Starbomb: Probably The Only Tour Ever
Malcolm Todd: Do That Again Tour (MOVED TO THE SALT SHED OUTDOORS) · Oct 8
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Wayne Hancock, Tba
Sweet Pill with Heart to Gold and Emily How
🎟️ From $35
Elizabeth Nichols - I Don't Kiss & Tell, I Kiss & Tour
🎟️ From $71
Koe Wetzel: The Night Champion World Tour
IWC Fall Harvest
🎟️ From $32
Kelsey Lu - So Help Me God Tour
Gorillaz - The Mountain Tour
Karina Rykman · Oct 9
UB40 - THE UNSTOPPABLE TOUR 2026
SYML - Solo in North America 2026 with Roger Weeks
🎟️ From $43
Chasing Abbey
🎟️ From $32
Quintron and Miss Pussycat (with Michael Zerang on drums) / Aaron Dilloway
🎟️ From $23
Mastodon w/ Deafheaven
Souvenirs: 80 Years of John Prine Presented by the Prine Family
Jerry Seinfeld
MUNA: Gets So Hot Tour
Scene Queen: METALICIOUS
Shaboozey - Outlaws Never Die Tour
Sawyer Hill - Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy World Tour
🎟️ From $29
Karina Rykman · Oct 10
Tito Nieves - 50 Años La Historia Continua
BECK: RIDE LONESOME TOUR
The Dead Bolts with Cab Ellis
🎟️ From $34
Iron Lung / Yambag / Consensus Madness / Flowering
🎟️ From $27
Chicago Fire FC vs. New York City FC (Naruto Shirt to 1st 5K)
Chicago Blackhawks vs. Carolina Hurricanes
Switchfoot with special guest Anberlin - Forever Now Tour
Wind Walkers - The "I Don't Belong Here" Tour w/ If Not For Me & True North
🎟️ From $28
JPEGMAFIA: the Experimental Rap Tour
Armand Hammer with Quelle Chris and Open Mike Eagle
🎟️ From $34
Autumn arts season
October tends to bring a strong indoor cultural calendar — film festivals, theatre and live music pick up as the weather cools.
- Browse film festivals, theatre openings and live-music line-ups
- Look for Halloween-season events later in the month
- Check for autumn food and drink festivals while they’re still running