2013 Chicago Festival Guide
It’s already that time of the year for the best season in Chicago: Street Fest Season! Get out your koozis and friends for day drinking, art, music, people watching, cover bands and some 90’s one-hit-wonders play that “one song” that everyone knows (“It’s been….one week since you looked at me…”) and trust me, these band go great with vodka lemonades. Chicago Fest Season 2013!
*Disclosure: There are many more, as this is just a highlighted list.
May
- 25-26th: Belmont Music Fest (Lakeview)
- 30-June 2nd: Maifest (Lincoln Square)
- 31-June 2nd: Do Division (Wicker Park)
June
- 1-2: Lincoln Live (Lincoln Park)
- 7: Taste of Greece (West Loop)
- 7-8: Ribfest (Lakeview)
- 7-8: Blues Fest (Loop)
- 8-9: Wells Street Art Fair (Old Town)
- 8-9: Old Town Art Fair (Old Town)
- 14-16: Taste of Randolph (West Loop)
- 15-16: Sausage Fest (Wrigleyville) Hello, Abe Froman?
- 20-23: Chicago Craft Beer Festival (Old Town)
- 22-23: Pride Fest (Boystown)
- 23-24: Green Music Fest (Wicker Park)
- 28-29: Old St. Pat’s World’s Largest Block Party (West Loop)
- 29: Summer On Southport (Lakeview)
- 29-30: Chicago Country Fest (Lincoln Park)
- 29-30: Lincoln Park Arts and Music Festival (Lincoln Park)
- 30: Pride Parade (Boystown)
July
- 5-7: Windy City Rib Fest (Uptown)
- 6-7: Taste of Lakeview (Lakeview)
- 6-7: Rock Around the Block (Lakeview)
- 10-14: Taste of Chicago (Grant Park)
- 12-14: Windy City Smokeout (River North)
- 19-21: Pitchfork (Union Station)
- 20: Sheffield Garden Walk (Lincoln Park)
- 27-28: Taste of Lincoln (Lincoln Park)
- 27-28: Wicker Park Fest (Wicker Park)
August
- 2-4: Lollapalooza
- 3-4: Chicago Summerfest (Wrigleyville)
- 7-11: Tall Ship (Navy Pier)
- 10-11: Retro on Roscoe (Roscoe Village)
- 10-11: Halsted Market Days (Boystown)
- 17-18: Air and Water Show (lakefront/wherever you can see the planes)
- 22-25: Festa Italiano (Little Italy)
- 24-25: Bucktown Arts Fest (Bucktown)
- 30-Sept 1: North Coast Music Fest (Union Park)
September
- 6-8 Windy City Wine Fest (Grant Park)
- 7-8 Guinness Oyster Fest (Roscoe Village)
- 27-29: Oktoberfest (Lincoln Park)
Hello festival overload.