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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Last evening there was a showing of the first two movies of Puella Magi Madoka Magica at The Music Box Theater. I'm not really a person to stay up late, so I'm currently exhausted because it didn't end until 1:30ish in the morning. The films were really just a compilation of the entire series in [...]