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  • How Farm Aid's 1997 return put Tinley Park on music's map.

Also on today's calendar: ⭐️Final Market at the Barn of the Season⭐️ and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, with a high of 72 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Warm with high clouds, temps: high: 77, low: 52.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 69 and low of 50 degrees.

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• This Day in Music History: Oct. 4, From Gershwin on Film to "Another One Bites the Dust" (riverbender.com) — Tinley Park gets a notable shoutout in this music-history roundup, highlighting Farm Aid's sold-out 1997 return to Illinois at the New World Music Theater. The piece looks back at how that concert linked big-name artists and local agricultural concerns, alongside other Oct. 4 milestones from Gershwin to Queen and Feist.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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