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Explore Mattoon's restaurant profile, checked Aug 14, 2026, does not mention an open mic [s1]. A regional tourism site's venue page, checked the same day, also does not mention one [s2]. A local newspaper's own coverage of the venue does not mention an open mic either [s3]. The Venue's Website does not resolve. No source states the open mic ended, so it's unclear whether it still runs, though the silence leans against it.
Every other Wednesday, 8:00 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
An open-mic listing site's own listing for Griffin's Pint (Publick House) shows varying biweekly Wednesday dates ahead, and its 'last updated' stamp of Aug 1, 2025 is over a year old, a weak signal, not evidence. A local news site's own index is silent on 'open mic,' a weak negative since it isn't a comprehensive listing (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. Another local news site is silent on it too [s2]. No dated confirmation was found.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
An open-mic listing site names a Thursday open mic at Quigley's Irish Pub (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The Venue's Website is live and readable but does not mention an open mic; that alone does not mean it has ended, so the listing stays unconfirmed.
Every other Thursday, 8:00 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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The venue's own event page shows a next instance of Nov 5, 2026 — a Thursday, and the first Thursday of the month — last modified Aug 10, 2026 (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. This matches the 1st-and-3rd-Thursday cadence already listed for this event.
A page on middleillinoiscomedy.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The second Monday of each month, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A trusted local comedy listing site describes a currently-live 'second Monday of the month' open mic at Tavern On Prospect, but the page carries no date tied to a specific instance (checked Aug 14, 2026). Two guessed venue domains fail to resolve, and a newspaper's page shows only generic boilerplate. This stays unknown, leaning likely-current given the source's reliability.
The comedy club's own event feed, checked Aug 14, 2026, lists a separate Thursday Open Mic Night with dated instances on Sep 10, 17, 24, and Oct 1, 2026, running alongside its Wednesday mic as two distinct weekly shows [s1].
The comedy club's own event feed, checked Aug 14, 2026, shows Open Mic Night running Wednesdays with dated instances from Aug 19 through Sep 30, 2026, plus a one-off 'Rare Friday Night' special the same day as the check [s1].
The Venue's Website still lists 'Open Mic with King Moosa and Ruth Jackson,' dated to the day of the Aug 14, 2026 check, 6:00-8:00 PM [s1]. Only that single date is visible on the page, so the weekly recurrence is carried forward from an earlier finding rather than freshly confirmed.
A news article on rockrivertimes.com suggests it may have ended.
A bar-listicle site's earlier claim about Mary's Place is now treated cautiously, since that site otherwise publishes unrelated, templated multi-city content. The Venue's Website fails to resolve. A local newspaper's own search for 'mary's place open mic,' checked Aug 14, 2026, returns a genuine no-results negative [s1]. A small bar's own limited web presence is not itself evidence of closure.
The third Tuesday of each month, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.
The library's own event platform shows a Poetry Open Mic dated Feb 17, 2026, 6:00 PM — about six months earlier (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. No more recent instance could be found, but nothing contradicts it either.
Monthly on a Sunday, 5:00 PM; no source says which week. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
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The organization's own event page, last modified Aug 3, 2026, describes a Sunday, Aug 16, 2026, 5:00-7:00 PM open mic billed as 'Queer Noise: Musical Theater Night' [s1]. This contradicts an earlier open-mic listing site claim of a Friday 6:30 PM slot, and only this single dated instance was found, so a monthly cadence is not confirmed.
The second Friday of each month, 6:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The church's own current website, checked Aug 14, 2026, makes no mention of an open mic or coffeehouse on its homepage, though a co-sponsored community program might simply not appear in the nav [s1]. The one supporting source, a local news site's citation, is dated to a May 2022 instance, over four years stale, and a search for a fresher instance found none past 2022. No source states the series ended.
The one supporting instance for this open mic, dated May 29, 2025, is now about 15 months old. A local news site's own internal search for 'inkwell open mic' turned up nothing (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The Venue's Website domain does not exist. The earlier instance was described as an occasional special event, so this alone does not suggest the series has ended.
last Tuesday of the month · 7:30 PM · sign-up 7 PM
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The sources disagree on the night.
A review site's event listing, re-checked Aug 14, 2026, gives a start date that recomputes to a Wednesday, contradicting the 'last Tuesday' claim it is cited for [s1]. The venue's own e-commerce storefront site has no mention of an open mic or comedy, though it reads as a merch page rather than an events page, so that silence carries little weight. No fresh confirmation or closure statement was found.
The event organizer's own site, checked Aug 14, 2026, still describes a Poetry Open Mic at Edwards Place on the first Wednesday of each month [s1]. Archived copies of that page show real content changes from Feb 2025 through May 2026, the most recent about three months before Aug 14, 2026 [s2]. A recheck on Sep 5, 2026 reconfirmed the listing, with no contradicting evidence found.
2nd Wednesday of the month · 7 PM · sign-up 6:30 PM
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A page on middleillinoiscomedy.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The second Wednesday of each month, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A local comedy listing site remains the only source naming Fluid Lounge's Wednesday open mic. A guessed community-calendar page for the venue 404'd, and a local alt-weekly's own site shows a genuine zero-results page for 'fluid lounge comedy' (checked Aug 14, 2026). With neither positive nor negative dated evidence found, this stays unknown.
Every other Wednesday, 8:00 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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A community events calendar, checked Aug 14, 2026, lists a Theater & Comedy open mic on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, 7 PM, with dated instances Aug 19 and 26 and Sep 2 and 9, 2026 [s1]. A separate Karaoke night at the same venue on other days is a distinct, different-format event, not a second open mic.
A Springfield alt-weekly's community calendar carries the venue's own phone number, address, and social media link, plus upcoming Wednesday listings for Aug 19, Aug 26, Sep 2, and Sep 9, 2026 (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The Venue's Website could not be reached, and its social media page could not be checked directly.