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Things to Do in Lincoln Park and Old Town This Weekend

By Emily Morris | November 15, 2013 6:57am
 Denver indie band Tennis plays Lincoln Hall on Saturday.
Denver indie band Tennis plays Lincoln Hall on Saturday.
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CHICAGO — Some things to do this weekend include a historical crime tour, live music and a parenting event at the Nature Museum.

Local history

Scene of the Crime bus tour at Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St., 1-5 p.m. Saturday

Author Richard Lindberg ("Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago") takes guests on a tour that hits up locations of notorious murders and organized crime spots, among other infamous North Side areas. Tickets are $50 for members and $55 for non-members, and you can reserve a spot online. Bus tours meet at the museum.

Music

Nellie "Tiger" Travis, Joanna Connor at Kingston Mines, 2548 N. Halsted St., 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Nellie "Tiger" Travis plays the main stage and Joanna Connor plays the north stage at the blues venue this Friday and Saturday night. Tickets are $15.

Tennis with ON AN ON, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., 10 p.m. Saturday.

Listen to Denver indie band Tennis perform along with with fellow indie acts ON AN ON and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at Lincoln Hall. Tickets for the show, which is restricted to those 18 and older, are $15.

For parents

"Monsters Under the Bed and Superheroes in the Playroom" at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Author and psychotherapist Martha Heineman Pieper gives a talk to parents and caretakers about the "meaning of children's dreams and fantasy plays." The event is free and is meant for adults only.