November 2025 Issue: Music 45 (Print Edition) lit A Shot in the Arm:

A Shot in the Arm: Temporary Interventions Can Be Long-Term Investments In Neighborhoods By Ernie Wong

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November 2025 Issue: Music 45 (Print Edition) lit A Shot in the Arm:Music 45 2025 Who Keeps Chicago In Tune "Chicagos music world is much brighter, bigger, louder than any screen, and it's growing all the time. In just one week this September, Mike Reed staged the inaugural Sound & Gravity Festival at venues across Bricktown, Music of the Baroque floated an orchestra performing Handel atop a riverboat downtown, Empty Bottle Presents filled the Garfield Park Conservatory with ambient and electronic music, Theaster