On Saturday, July 6, Bill Kim will host a live cooking demonstration featuring recipes from the July issue of Food & Wine. The dishes include Lola’s Roast Chicken with Sambai Chimichurri; Spiced Shrimp with Tomato Salsa and Avocado; and Corn on the Cob with Curry Mayonnaise and Chile Salt. Afterwards, guests will be served the dishes family-style along with pitchers of Riesling sangria with lychees and iced tea. The cost is $50 and tickets can be purchased online.

Celebrate with a pre-Fourth Red, White and Bluegrass Jam featuring live music from Moonshine & Honeysuckle and Black Coffee Fridays from 8 to 11 p.m. on July 3. Then enjoy a three-course meal of All-American classics served family-style. Selections include bacon corn bread, grit cakes, grilled or fried smoked Slagel chicken, Angels’ ribs, and a Fourth of July pie.

Join Epic for a pre-Independence Day Rooftop Soiree on July 3rd from 1 p.m. to midnight. Guests will enjoy $3 Strongbows, $5 Evan Williams bourbon shots, $8 Berry bunch cocktails and $8 cherry barbecued baby back ribs with fries, along with the full lounge menu.

Military personnel and their family will receive 50% off food purchases during Bub City's Barbecue for the Troops on July 4. A portion of the proceeds will go to USO to support servicemen. $4 Bud cans will also be offered all day.

It’s the 4th of July, Nashville-style at The Southern starting at 11 a.m. Enjoy $5 Jack cocktails, $3 Miller High Life bottles, $3 Old Granddad shots and the famous hot, glazed fried chicken, along with country music.

Ryan Poli has prepared some picnic-themed specials perfect for a day out on the patio. Guests can enjoy BBQ ribs, Kobe hot dogs, grilled corn on the cob and a housemade potato salad. The Tippling Bros have also crafted the Independence Fever, a layered red, white and blue cocktail with a starfruit garnish.

Celebrate the red, white and blue with half-priced oysters all day in the oyster bar. Guests will have the option of both the East and West Coast variety. And from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Schaumburg location, the plump, briny bivalves will be just 50 cents apiece.

Kick off the Fourth a little early on July 3 at 8 p.m. with a live performance from South of 80, a Chicago All-American cover band, along with $5 Yacht Club vodka cocktails.

John Barleycorn will open early at 11 a.m. on Independence Day and offer $6 half-pound cheeseburgers, $4 craft beers, $3 domestic drafts and bottles and $5 4 Rebels Sangria Royales. The new sidewalk café and upgraded beer garden will be open as well.