Story Week Festival of Writers is a free week long annual event downtown Chicago. It's put on by Columbia College of Chicago and several other sponsors. The events include panels, Q&A's, readings, and performances. Authors, editors and agents come into town for events, readings, book signings, discuss the current state of affairs from their view point in the world [...]
Tag: things to do in Chicago
LUMA: Loyola University Museum of Art and Edward Gorey
Loyola University museum of Art is located at 820 North Michigan Avenue. My department began to murmur about Edward Gorey a couple months before the exhibit opened up at Loyola. Edward Gorey was an artist and writer born in Chicago. He's most well known for his pen and ink books and illustrations such as "Vinegar [...]
Bahá’i Temple
A friend of mine had a project for class that required her to go to the Bahá'i House of Worship in Wilmette and asked me to go with her since it was so far away. Her parents ended up driving us there, otherwise we would have had to take the red line and the purple line out [...]
Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a popular destination in the city. It is located at 600 East Grand Avenue and can easily be reached by CTA buses#2, #29, #65, #66, or #124. The pier hosts a multitude of events and I've been multiple times over the four years I've lived in the city. Over the summer it's [...]
CAKE: Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, or CAKE is a free independent comic event. It is a weekend long event with workshops, panels, discussions, and a comics and art for sale. This year it happened at Center on Halsted located at 3656 N Halsted. The Center on Halsted is a LGBTQ community center, and the largest in the [...]
Adler Planetarium
When I was little I wanted to be an astronaut, every summer I built rockets to shoot off into the sky. I loved going to space and flight museums so Adler has been on my to do list for awhile. I finally found both free time and a free day to go, found a friend [...]
Millennium Art Festival
The Millennium Art Festival is the last weekend in May and the beginning of June for a weekend located at the end of Millennium Park at the cross of Lake Street and Michigan Avenue. It's free and filled with booths of art, paintings, photography, innovative designs of jewelry, candles, wine/alcohol corks, wooden box musical instruments, glass [...]
Eataly
Eataly is a two story shopping experience located at 43 E Ohio St. I call it an experience, sometimes a monster, because the first time I went it was super confusing. I'm sure the fact I went after it had only recently opened and was packed to the brim didn't help. It has 23 restaurants, a [...]
Millennium Park/Grant Park
Millennium Park can be found lining the eastern side of Michigan Avenue and along the Lake. It's a beautiful place to walk through, though it in itself is somewhat small, the park tends to bleed into other parks or green spots. Millennium Park eventually also turns into Maggie Daley Park and Grant Park and then [...]
ACEN
ACEN (Anime Central) is the midwest's largest anime convention, and was my first convention. It's held in Rosemont at and near the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. The first year I attended was after my first year in college. The anime club I had been attending at my school raised money and worked with the school to [...]