The Chicago Korean Festival is a summer festival that happens on Bryn Mawr Avenue, essentially on the Northeastern Illinois University campus. To get to the festival you have to ride the brown line to the end of the line which can be about an hour depending on where you get on. After getting off at [...]
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Taste of Chicago
Taste of Chicago is a summer festival that happens in Grant Park and has been going on since 1980. If you're in town for a short amount of time during the summer and want to try as much food as possible without traversing the city this is probably the best thing for you. To buy [...]
Renegade Craft Fair
The Renegade Craft Fair happens usually in early September in Wicker Park. It's a traveling craft fair. A person could spend all day looking at each of the booths, at all of the interesting wares. Because it's outside there tend to be several dogs out walking around with their owners and sometimes there are even [...]
Snow Days
Snow Days is an annual event in January that happens at Navy Pier, which can be reached by riding the 29 bus to the end of the line, or several other ways. Navy Pier in general is a super busy tourist place and also tends to be filled with conventions, such as the National Gardener [...]
Chinese New Year Parade
Chicago's Chinese New Year Parade occurs in the old part of Chinatown and happens every year after Chinese New Year. It starts by setting off some fire crackers and then the veterans start the parade after a fire truck goes past. Then comes that years zodiac. This year is the water snake. The parade includes [...]
Cultivate Festival
The Cultivate Festival begins in the fall usually around September in Chicago. It's a free event put on by Chipotle. The idea is to promote green hormone free food, farming and ideas. When entering the festival there are stands where you can pick up a map that tells you what is going on throughout the [...]
The Midwest Buddhist Temple and Mochi
Last year during late summer I had a friend invite me to hang out with her while she worked at a Ginza Holiday festival at the Midwest Buddhist Temple. It was their 56th annual japanese holiday festival. It was a fundraiser for the temple and tons of fun. For a small donation of about $10 [...]
Christkindlmarket
The Christkindlmarket happens every year in mid to late november and ends just before Christmas. It is a German holiday market at Daley Plaza with food, drink and shopping. There is a giant decorated tree and several little wooden stands selling food such as soup and potato pancakes and hot chocolate or chocolate covered fruits [...]
Festival of Lights
The festival of lights is a parade on the magnificent mile (North Michigan Avenue) where they turn on the lights for the holiday season and start the festivities for the year. The first float is Mickey and Minnie Mouse from the disney parks and as they go the lights turn on. Other disney characters and [...]
Midnight Circus at Franken Plaza for Chicagoween
This Halloween the city of Chicago's Daley Plaza was turned into Franken Plaza, a plaza for Halloween fun. There were different tents with little shops, selling sweets, masks and other random goods. They had dyed the fountain orange and had set up a photo booth that was really just a person taking your photo and [...]