The reservations are made and everything is paid for, but this offer ends at midnight! The repairs come as the venue faces increased scrutiny online after firing a security guard seen on video pushing and kicking a concertgoer that night. Around a. Saturday, a wooden beam attached to the interior steel frame at Radius, W. Cermak Road, detached and fell onto two attendees during a performance by the band Levity , according to police and a Radius social media statement.
A year-old man was injured in his neck and shoulders, and a year-old woman was hit in the back of the head and began to bleed. Both people were taken to Stroger Hospital and listed in good condition, police said. A show with Malaa went on as scheduled Saturday after the incident.
After initially saying someone would reach out to a Block Club reporter, Radius operators did not respond to multiple requests for comment and did not return calls made to the venue. Karounos opened Radius in as a 55,square-foot music venue in a former steel factory just west of the Chicago River.
He also co-founded promoter and event company Auris Presents. The Department of Buildings has also been in contact with Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez 25th since Saturday, Brown said. The venue has performers scheduled on weekends into the spring, according to its website. A video of the altercation was posted to X. One Radius attendee, who has been to the venue over a dozen times, told Block Club security was similarly aggressive toward him at an April show. He said he was forcibly removed from the dance floor, searched and accused of failing to pay a bar tab.
After he told security he did pay his tab, they pushed him out the door and into the parking lot, he said. He still feels uneasy whenever he goes back for a show, he said. And sometimes the best way to have a conversation is to create a disruption. And I think this is really healthy for the scene. Rachel McLean, a year-old Portage Park resident who has attended multiple Radius shows over the last five years, said she and her husband decided to start boycotting the venue about a year ago.
