Live-music venues worth the trip in Joliet, Illinois

A 1926 Rapp & Rapp vaudeville movie palace in Joliet, often referred to as the Jewel of Joliet and considered one of the ten most beautiful theaters in the nation, its history page says, with a Versailles-inspired inner lobby, a rotunda under a dome much like the Pantheon’s and the Duchess crystal chandelier.

A downtown Joliet club that promises, in its own words, live music up close and personal from national artists in rock, hip-hop and everything in between, with a general-admission floor and first-come stools along the balcony ledge.