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Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Here's everything you'll eat at the Windy City Smokeout this summer
Barbecue season is nearly upon us and though there's certainly a seasonal novelty in firing up your own grill at home, why not let the professional pitmasters do it for you? The annual Windy City Smokeout is returning to Chicago this summer—on Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, July 13, to be exact—and it's bringing together a stellar lineup of both local 'cue favorites and national smokehouses outside the United Center. A smokin' good time will be had courtesy of the finger-licking barbecue being fired up by this year's participating pitmasters, each of whom will offer two different dishes during the festival. The full 2025 food lineup includes: Bub City (Chicago) Chef Art Smith's Reunion (Chicago) Dayne's Craft BBQ (Aledo, Texas) Gene's BBQ (Atlanta) Green Street Smoked Meats (Chicago) Heritage Barbecue (San Juan Capistrano, California) Hogapalooza (Wayne, Arkansas) Hoodoo Brown BBQ (Ridgefield, Connecticut) Hurtado Barbecue (Arlington, Texas) Joe's KC BBQ (Kansas City, Kansas) Lexington Betty Smokehouse (Chicago) Little Miss BBQ (Phoenix) Meat Mitch Barbecue (Leawood, Kansas) Operation BBQ Relief (Joplin, Missouri) Panther City BBQ (Fort Worth, Texas) Pappy's Smokehouse (St. Louis, Missouri) Pig Beach BBQ (Astoria, New York) Smoque BBQ (Chicago) Soul & Smoke (Chicago) Sugarfire Smoke House (St. Louis, Missouri) Ubons BBQ (Yazoo City, Mississippi) Wright's Barbecue (Johnson, Arkansas) And if that's not enough 'cue for you, there will also be a bottomless barbecue brunch on Sunday, powered with free-flowing Mimosas, build-your-own Bloody Marys, plenty of juicy pitmaster barbecue, live acoustic music and more. And speaking of music, the festival will feature live country-music performances from both up-and-coming acts as well as renowned bands, including Megan Moroney, Shane Smith & The Saints, Angel White, Maggie Antone, Kane Brown, Josh Meloy, Kashus Culpepper, Ella Langley, Riley Green and Sam Barber, among others. Multiple cashless bars will be conveniently set around the festival grounds so you can quench your thirst with a cold glass of beer from top American breweries, including Chicago's own Goose Island. You can grab tickets (ranging from general admission to premium VIP experiences) and find out more information at the Windy City Smokeout website.
Chicago Tribune
10-02-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Dexter Reed police shooting settlement held from committee vote, $1.25 million deal in limbo
A controversial settlement remains in legislative limbo after a deal to award $1.25 million to the family of a man shot and killed by police after firing at officers first was not brought up for a planned vote Monday. Aldermen had appeared poised for a tense debate over the settlement recommended by city attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed as a way to avoid a potentially more costly payout in court. But Ald. Pat Dowell, chair of the City Council's Finance Committee, withheld the settlement when it came up for a vote. Dowell did not say why she did so. Aldermen often delay planned votes when they do not have the needed support to pass an item. It's not clear when the Reed settlement might come up for consideration in the Finance Committee. Some aldermen believe the city should not settle Reed's family's lawsuit because Reed fired first, striking an officer before police opened fire. Reed was shot and killed by plainclothes police in a March 2024 Humboldt Park traffic stop. Police body cam video shows Reed firing first at one of the officers who pulled him over for a seatbelt violation. Five officers fired at least 79 times at Reed, striking him 13 times, after Reed initially complied with orders to roll down his window but then appeared to disregard a command to roll down a window on his car's passenger side, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and an autopsy report. Reed exited his car during the shootout that ensued before falling to the pavement. One officer fired three more shots at Reed as he was lying motionless on the street. That 23-year-old officer fired at least 50 rounds during the 41 seconds of gunfire, according to COPA. In July 2023, Reed, a former Westinghouse College Prep basketball player, was arrested near the United Center and charged with illegally possessing a gun inside the Windy City Smokeout music and food festival. That case was pending at the time of his death. The committee on Monday did give initial approval to a $27 million deal for the family of Angela Parks, a woman paralyzed by a driver evading police in an August 2020 chase that violated CPD's strict car pursuit policies. The woman, who died of her injuries 18 months later, was hit by a Jeep speeding away from police as she walked into an Armour Square intersection. Officer Ricardo Teneyuque drove into oncoming traffic, failed to alert supervisors and did not turn on his sirens during the chase, city attorney Margaret Mendenhall Casey told aldermen. Teneyuque followed about 15 feet behind the car he believed was stolen for a quarter mile, driving at one point at 48 mph, Mendenhall Casey said. Teneyuque received a two-day suspension for violating chase policies. Parks is survived by five children between ages eight and 19, Mendenhall Casey said. If the full City Council approves the deal, the city will pay Parks' estate $20 million, and its insurer will pay another $7 million. Aldermen advanced three additional settlements for a total of $4,440,000. The full City Council is set to consider those next week.
