Live-music venues worth the trip in Des Plaines, Illinois

One of Onesti Entertainment’s two Vaudeville-era playhouses, a Des Plaines house whose own show categories run from classic and hard rock to oldies, country and comedy, with an upstairs Bourbon ’N Brass Speakeasy for jazz, blues and indie nights.

A second-floor room at Rivers Casino Des Plaines, a room that its own page calls an intimate venue for premier entertainment where every seat feels like the front row, having hosted Michael Bolton, Cheap Trick and Melissa Etheridge.