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Special Events and Festivals

 Special Events

The Greatest Events in the Midwest

 

Chicago’s Special Events and Festivals provide residents and visitors with year-round family style entertainment. From major downtown and lakefront festivals such as the Blues Festival and the Air and Water Show to civic and holiday celebrations, millions of people each year take part in events throughout the city, contributing significantly to tourism and economic development for Chicago.

 

 

Most Recent News

 

May 9, 2012: 34th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Headline Acts Announced

 

May 8, 2012: 27th Chicago Gospel Music Festival Full Schedule Announced

 

April 24, 2012: Chicago Jazz Festival Announces Artist In Residence

 

April 23, 2012: Travelocity Employees Name Their Top-10 Festivals

 

April 19, 2012: Taste of Chicago Announces Headline Entertainment at Petrillo Music Shell

 

April 18, 2012: DCASE Chooses Illinois Restaurant Association To Manage Taste Of Chicago

 

April 18, 2012: Millennium Park Summer 2012

Concerts Showcase Classical, Jazz, Indie-Rock And More

 

April 10, 2012: Jump-Start Your Weekend with a Morning Workout, Saturdays in Chicago’s Millennium Park, June 9-Sept. 1

 

April 11, 2012: Bike To Work Week Events Announced

 

April 3, 2012: Chicago Kids & Kites Festival Flies Down The Calendar

 

March 29, 2012: America’s Finest Set To Fly Over Chicago’s Lakefront

 

March 29, 2012: Chicago’s Memorial Day Parade and Wreath Laying Ceremony 

 

March 28, 2012: A Spectacular Summer of Free Concerts Comes to Chicago's Millennium Park

 

March 28, 2012: Chicago Gospel Music Festival Announces Headline Acts And New Festival Site

 

March 27, 2012: Chicago’s 175th Birthday Celebration Showers April With More Days And Ways To Love Chicago

 

March 20, 2012: Chicago Bike To Work Week To Be Held June 11-15

 

March 9, 2012: DCASE Announces All Acts for 29th Annual Chicago Blues Festival

 

February 23, 2012: Taste Restaurant Application Deadline Extended

 

February 8, 2012: Chicago 175th Birthday Party!

 

January 30, 2012: Legendary Artist Mavis Staples To Headline 2012 Chicago Blues Fest

 

December 28, 2011: 2012 Festival Dates – A New Year Of Arts And Entertainment

 

November 3, 2011: Holiday Season Kicks-Off At Tree Lighting Ceremony

 

November 1, 2011: Chicago Honors America’s Veterans

 

October 5, 2011: Franken Plaza Comes Alive With Free Entertainment Daley Plaza Halloween Fun, October 28-30, 2011

 

October 4, 2011: Tree Lighting And UL Santa House Kick Off The Holidays

 

September 16, 2011: Halloween Haunts Daley Plaza

 

September 16, 2011: Before The O’leary’s, There Were The Clarkes

 

September 7, 2011: Hunt Begins For Chicago’s Tree

 

August 29, 2011: 13th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago Returns to Millennium Park

 

August 3, 2011: Link Purchases Double At Chicago Farmers Markets

 

August 2, 2011: America’s Finest Bring High Flying Action To Lakefront

 

July 19, 2011: Get A First Class Ticket To The Air And Water Show

 

June 22, 2011: Aerial Demonstrations Of Guts And Glory Return To The Lakefront

 

June 1, 2011: 33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Remains Free Admission

 

May 9, 2011: City of Chicago and COUNTRY Financial Kick Off Farmers Market Season

 

April 28, 2011: World Music Festival Chicago 2011 returns September 16 – 22

 

April 15, 2011: 33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Welcomes Back Chicago Favorite Orbert Davis as Artist-in-Residence for 2011 Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Contacts:

Cindy Gatziolis
312.744.0573

cgatziolis@cityofchicago.org

Mary May
312.744.0576

mary.may@cityofchicago.org

 

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