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Taste of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Food & Drink
- When
- The dates for the next one are not posted yet.
- Where
- Grant Park, Butler Field · Chicago · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Not yet confirmed for this edition
A free multi-day food festival in Grant Park featuring dozens of Chicago restaurants alongside free concerts on multiple stages. First held in 1980, it grew into one of the world's largest free-admission food festivals before scaling back in recent years to a five-day run in early-to-mid July. Attendance regularly reaches into the hundreds of thousands.
The history within reach
- Chappell Roan's Lollapalooza crowdsame spot
Booked for a side stage months before the year got loud, she drew what festival staff called the largest daytime crowd Lollapalooza had ever seen, a field of pink cowboy hats stretching past the sound towers.
- Buckingham Fountainsame spot
One of the largest fountains in the world at its 1927 dedication, modeled on the Latona Fountain at Versailles..
President-elect Barack Obama addressed a crowd estimated near 240,000 in Grant Park on November 4, 2008..
- Chicago Marathon0.3 mi
One of the six World Marathon Majors; roughly 50,000 finishers on a course through 29 neighborhoods..
Arts in the Dark is Chicago's official Halloween parade, sending illuminated puppets, floats, and costumed performers down Columbus Drive through Grant Park each October evening.