Monty The Plover Dead / Railroad Days / 1758 Violin Stolen / Doughboys

Let's have some fun this weekend, Chicago.

Here's an idea: Railroad Days— complete with four antique Pullman train cars, rolls into the Pullman National Monument Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday: Mild. High: 71 Low: 64.

Sunday: Damp. High: 70 Low: 55.

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• Monty the Piping Plover died Friday at Montrose Beach, birdwatchers said. Monty and his mate, Rose, captured Chicago's heart when they became the first Great Lakes piping plovers to raise chicks in Chicago since in more than 60 years. (Patch)
• Dakohtah Earley, the 23-year-old shot and critically wounded in a Lincoln Park robbery last week, has been removed from life support and breathing on his own, Kasey Chronis reports. (FOX32)
• The body of University of Illinois at Chicago student Natally Brookson was found in Lake Michigan. The 22-year-old was reported missing, along with her boyfriend, last month. Her boyfriend remains missing. (Patch)
• A violin built in 1758 worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars" was stolen from a Chicago musician's home. "It's like losing my own voice," Minghaun Xu. (ABC7)

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Saturday:

• Testament at The Forge (6:50 p.m.)
• Janis Ian at The Old Town School of Folk Music (8 p.m.)
• Dijon at Lincoln Hall (8 p.m.)
• The Temptations at The Venue at Horseshoe Casino (8 p.m.)

Sunday:

• Grateful Shred at Thalia Hall (8 p.m.)
• Little Simz at Metro (6 p.m.)
• Sondre Lerche w/ Mmeadows at City Winery (8 p.m.)
• Jacob Collier at The Riv (7:30 p.m.)
• Doughboys at The Vic (7 p.m.)

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• Kendrick Lamar's tour is making a stop in Chicago.
• Hyde Park Garden Fair returns this weekend.

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."

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