Greensky Bluegrass

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Alex's Washington Gardens, a restaurant in area 2 (Highwood): 6th for this crowd, 14th for the room's usual crowd.^Q16–Q17

35.1 km from the venue. Ask to leave flyers at the counter.

Why this one: the highest-ranked place for this crowd in area 2 (no place in area 1 qualified) that the room's usual crowd ranks 8 places lower. See it in the partner list.

3 Qloo requests, fetched Oct 21 2026, 17:57 UTC, all from cache.^Q11–Q13

17 areas where this bill's crowd ranks higher than the room's usual crowd. The top 5 are in Schaumburg, Highwood, Oak Park, Highland Park and Downtown Evanston.

9 Qloo requests, fetched Oct 21 2026, 17:57 UTC, none from cache.^Q14–Q22

13 partners in 3 areas, at most 2 of a kind per area. Left out 1 food cart or kiosk. 14 places left out by category (all-ages show). 14 national chains left off for local places. Places the room's usual crowd ranks as high are marked down; 3 of them dropped off the list and come back only if nothing better is open nearby.

Why: Record stores isn't searched yet: Qloo has no tag to find them by. Found 13 partners; the list aims for 15.

What Walkup decided

1. Your change. Changed 2 settings from your note "All ages, no bars".The model read it and changed the age setting and the types of place to leave out.^L1
2. Acts. Matched 1 act to Qloo.^Q1–Q2
3. Usual crowd. Built the room's usual crowd from 12 headliners on its next 44 shows.^{Q3–Q9, Q12, T2}
4. Lift map. Put Schaumburg first: about 2.6 times the room's usual crowd.17 areas pass both tests: at least 1.3 times the room's usual crowd, and percentile 70 or higher for this crowd.^Q11–Q13
5. Map check. Partial: Couldn't check the map by splitting the bill in two.This bill has one act, so there was no second half to check the map against.
6. Partners. Partial: Kept 13 places across 3 top areas, at most 2 of a kind in each.Qloo ranked them for this crowd, and every one is open Thursday. Left out 14 places by type (all-ages show). Record stores aren't searched yet: Qloo has no tag to find them by. Left off 14 national chains: Starbucks Coffee Company (2), Walker Bros. Original Pancake House, Rosati's Pizza, Buona and 7 more. That's short of the 15 the list aims for, so treat it as a starting list.^{Q14, Q16, Q18}
7. Usual-crowd overlap. Marked down the places the room's usual crowd ranks as high; 3 places fell off the list.Buffo's, Hole In the Wall Custard & Yogurt Shoppe and Autre Monde Cafe & Spirits: the same search for the room's usual crowd ranks them about as high, so they'd suit any night here. They come back only if nothing better is open nearby.^Q15–Q19
8. Popularity check. Popularity alone would miss 10 of the 13 partners: they aren't among the most popular places in their areas.The same search in each area without the bill as the signal returns places in popularity order; each area's list is cut to as many places as it has partners. It says nothing about ticket sales.^Q20–Q22
9. Before and after. Picked 8 spots within 1.5 km of the room, open on show night.Left out 15 places by type (all-ages show). Left out 1 place that isn't a business (a mall, plaza, station or park). Listed 1 national chain last, after the local spots: no local spot filled its slot.^Q23–Q24
10. Podcasts and sponsor. Added 4 podcasts and 1 sponsor brand.All are labelled national: local ranking isn't verified yet.^Q25–Q26
11. Summary. Claude wrote the summary and 3 fan copy lines from this run's results.^{Q29, L2}
12. Checks. Checked every line against this run's requests; nothing had to go.Held back 70 tags by policy: none of them appears in copy or on this sheet. Kept 4 alcohol tags out of fan copy: you set the show to all ages.

2 Qloo requests, fetched Oct 21 2026, 17:57 UTC, all from cache.^Q23–Q24

8 spots within 1.5 km open on show night, with the crowd spread across them by assumed capacity. Left out 1 place that isn't a business (a mall, plaza, station or park). Left out 1 place that closes before the evening. 15 places left out by type (all-ages show). 1 of 8 spots is a national chain, listed last: no local place filled its slot.

Expected shares are a heuristic with assumed capacities, not a forecast. National chains are spotted from a hand-kept list, Qloo's description of the place, a store-locator website, or the same name at 3 or more places; a chain none of these catches is listed like a local place.

1 of 1 acts resolved. Venue resolved as a Qloo place and left out of partner lists. Usual crowd: built from 12 headliners on the room's next 44 shows.

No list of your own partners came with this plan.

4 podcasts and 1 sponsor brand. Local ranking not checked yet, so all are national. Brands whose name or tags point to alcohol, tobacco or gambling are left out.

3 lines, each built only from approved Qloo tags.

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Requests behind this sheet

33 entries, 29 of them Qloo calls (20 from cache). Every footnote on this sheet points to one of these. Keys show only as environment variable names. Download sheet.json to keep the full ledger.