Buckingham Fountain

Taste of Chicago - Grant Park

Grant Park  •  Jul 08 – Jul 12 @ 11AM

The 46th annual Taste of Chicago is bringing some of the city’s most iconic bites to lakefront Grant Park.

Windy City Smokeout

Jul 08 – Jul 12

Country music, barbecue, and craft beer — it’s hard to think of a better way to spend a summer weekend in Chicago.

Chicago Gospel Music Festival

Jul 24 – Jul 25

Celebrating the great influence of the music genre born in this city more than 80 years ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival will present the top…

The 606

Chicago

Running along the former Bloomingdale Line, The 606 is an elevated, 2.7 mile landscaped trail that draws runners and bikers from Chicago and afar.

MetroWalkz Self-Guided Walking Tours

Chicago

Washington Square Park (Bughouse Square)

Chicago

Bughouse Square, across from the Newberry Library, was Chicago’s famed free-speech park. From the 1910s–1960s, poets, preachers, and radicals drew crowds with passionate, unscripted soapbox debates.