Chicago Podcast Festival

The annual Chicago Podcast Festival gives fans the opportunity to witness the people behind some of their favorite on-demand programming creating new episodes. This year's lineup includes comedian Jame Adomian's surreal Underculture, Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Besser's longrunning Improv 4 Humans and howstuffworks Ethnically Ambiguous, which unpacks life as a Middle Easterner living in America. Shows take place at the Hungry Brain, Chicago Theater Works and the Apollo Theater from October 16 through 20—and you'll find plenty of the famous podcast personalities in town for the festival guesting on other shows throughout the weekend.