Ravinia Festival

Highland Park, IL · Music

When: June 3 – September 23, 2026
Where: Ravinia Park, 201 Ravinia Park Rd · Highland Park · IL
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Ravinia is a large outdoor amphitheater and lawn venue in Highland Park that hosts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer residency alongside touring pop, rock, jazz and classical acts. The 2026 season runs from early June through late September with more than ninety concerts. It has operated since 1904 and is one of the oldest and largest outdoor music festivals in the country.

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The history within reach

Ravinia2.3 mi
It started in 1904 as an amusement park built by a railway to give people a reason to ride the line out from Chicago, went bust, and came back as a music park.
The Schmidt-Burnham log house, moved twice and still standing2.8 mi
Built around 1836 out of hand hewn squared oak logs on a Winnetka farmstead, this two and a half story house is one of the oldest structures on the North Shore.
Crow Island School and the jungle gym prototype2.9 mi
Perkins, Wheeler and Will designed this elementary school with Eliel and Eero Saarinen and opened it in 1940, shaping the building around progressive teaching instead of rows of desks.
The Home Alone house3.1 mi
The red brick house on Lincoln Avenue is a real family home that has been photographed by strangers at Christmas every year since 1990.
Cameron's house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off3.2 mi
The glass box in the trees that Cameron Frye kicks his father's Ferrari out the back of, in John Hughes's 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is a real modernist house in Highland Park.