The Chicago Country Music Festival will serve as the musical backdrop to the Taste of Chicago, with both opening on the same day. The sixth annual music fest this year will include headliners Hank Williams Jr., Tracy Lawrence and Patty Loveless. Local favorites will include Special Consensus and Little Country, with special guest Jerry Springer.
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Friday and Saturday in Grant Park.
![Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The federal government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of the Prairie Band’s reservation land 175 years ago. At the time, Chief Shab-eh-nay had been traveling from his home reservation in DeKalb County to visit his family in Kansas, the Nation said. “We have been asking for this recognition and for what is rightfully ours for nearly 200 years, and we are grateful to the U.S. Department […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-Potawatomi-Nation-land.jpg?w=575 "Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The federal government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of the Prairie Band’s reservation land 175 years ago. At the time, Chief Shab-eh-nay had been traveling from his home reservation in DeKalb County to visit his family in Kansas, the Nation said. “We have been asking for this recognition and for what is rightfully ours for nearly 200 years, and we are grateful to the U.S. Department […]")
