CHICAGO — WGN Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards offers a look at some of the shows and events taking place around Chicagoland this weekend.

80s rock icons Def Leppard “pour some sugar” on the Hard Rock Casino in Gary on Saturday night.

Pop rocker Jeremy Zucker visits the House of Blues on Saturday night.

Folk rockers Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners are at The Salt Shed on on Saturday night.

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter takes the stage at the Des Plaines Theatre on Saturday, and then plays the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles on Sunday.

Singer songwriters Shawn Colvin and Marc Cohn are at the Park West Chicago on Sunday.

Jazz and blues vocalist Catherine Russell is at the Old Town School Of Folk Music on Sunday.

On stage, three generations of a family deal with struggles of the great depression and racism on the South Side of Chicago. “Big White Fog” runs at Hyde Park’s Court Theater through Oct. 12.

See the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s world premiere of a new play set in the universe of the hit, “Paranormal Activity” franchise. It plays through Nov. 2.

For some spooky laughs this month, catch the improvised murder mystery, “Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way” at The Second City in Old Town through Halloween.

For laughs, the legendary standup George Wallace is at the City Winery Chicago on Sunday.

Dave Attell plays the Rivers Casino in Des Plaines on Saturday night.

SNL veteran Fred Armisen visits Space in Evanston.

Director Kevin Smith and his cast of characters visit the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont to celebrate “Clerks” and other hit movies all weekend long at ChronicCon.

The Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe gets into the spirt of the season with the Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns now through Oct. 26.

The world’s top marathon runners convene on the city for the 47th running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon starting at 7:20 a.m. Sunday.

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