Chicago’s creatives are discovering new tactics to make ends meet

DJ Gemini Jones, like maximum native DJs, is a member of the gig financial system — unbiased staff who're paid through the development — and who now in finding themselves out of labor throughout the coronavirus pandemic. The gigs at bars, venues, eating places, concert events and the non-public/company ones — probably the most profitable for DJs — have all dried up. “Financially, I’m broke,” mentioned Jones, who had a residency at The Promontory, a Hyde Park-based track venue. “[The coronavirus pandemic] has pretty much taken everything I had on my calendar into May; it is all gone now. What I’m doing to make money, honestly, at this point, I mixed [her last gigs] the