The Italian Festival happens in Little Italy, it has a small donation request. It's right on the UIC campus which is a bit like a ghost town since it's before the students come back. There were musical performances on several stages, food and drinks scatter around several statues in the middle of the street. One [...]
Category: festivals
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 [...]
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 [...]