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Summer 2009: Welcome Visitors!

Chicago’s diverse and beautiful neighborhoods take front and center this summer when Explore Chicago: Take a Neighborhood Vacation kicks off this June. Experience all the world’s cultures right here in Chicago with FREE outdoor festivals, farmers markets, art fairs, neighborhood tours and much more!

Independence Eve Fireworks fill the sky over Monroe Harbor and the lake, following a free concert from the 85th Army Band performing at Taste of Chicago.

Taste of Chicago in Grant Park

Celebrate our nation’s fight for freedom with the Chicago’s Independence Eve Fireworks Spectacular at Taste of Chicago in Grant Park. Enjoy a performance from the 85th Army Band prior to a brilliant pyrotechnic display over the lakefront, specially choreographed to a musical soundtrack

Chicago Outdoor Film Festival

Billy Wilder’s Classic “Sunset Blvd.” heads a lineup of classic films projected on to the big screen and shown under the stars on Chicago’s lakefront every Tuesday evening July 14 through August 25.

Great Performers of Illinois

Enjoy the sights and sounds of Great Performers of Illinois, July 10-13, in Millennium Park. Experience over 50 performers from across the state, a marketplace of Illinois artisans, regional foods and wines, Chicago's only urban corn maze and hands-on family fun activities all weekend long!

Clarke House Museum

Chicago’s oldest house, Clarke House shows what life was like for a middle-class family in Chicago during the city’s formative years before the Civil War.

Concertgoers pack the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

Fourth of July Celebration in Millennium Park

Celebrate July 4th with a picnic and FREE concert in Millennium Park! Enjoy food and entertainment inspired by cartoonist John T. McCutcheon’s fictional world of Bird Center, and stay for the Grant Park Orchestra’s first-ever Independence Day concert of patriotic favorites.