Early Friday Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the formation of a new autumn festival that will — metaphorically speaking — set the city on fire. "...

Sunday marks the beginning of Chinese New Year, and for 2013, drums are beating to ring in the year of the snake. Though it's a major holiday for ...

CHICAGO -- The final day of Riot Fest was anything but riotous. Perfect weather, a friendly crowd, old timer headliners and enough snarky t-shirts to ...

While festival-goers have returned some mixed reviews, the city has declared this year's Taste of Chicago a success. ABC Chicago reports that an es...

If you've been struggling to choose between A.V. Fest/Hideout Block Party and Riot Fest, two big-ticket music events hitting Chicago the weekend of Se...

If we had any doubts that summer was in full swing, this week's heat has certainly put them to rest. While air conditioned apartments may be hard to p...

The Hideout and The A.V. Club on Monday announced the first wave of their Frankensteined mini-music festival's lineup. The A.V. Fest & Hideout Bloc...

A group of celebrity chefs will be taking over Chicago's Waveland Park this weekend for the second annual Chill and Grill Festival. The event, spon...

This time last year, the pungent, recognizable smell of skunk permeated Illinois more than usual. That may happen again this season, but for differ...

The organizers behind Occupy Festival, a two-day music-oriented festival originally scheduled for May 12-13 in Chicago's Union Park, announced Tuesday...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday unveiled two new proposals aimed at helping pull the struggling Taste of Chicago festival into the black after years o...

Tickets to the 2012 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival went on sale at noon Friday. Set to take over Chicago's Union Park July 13-15, the fest...

The upcoming Taste of Chicago, in addition to being held later in the summer and lasting half as long as previous years, will also feature only one-th...

Now that fall is full-on upon us, there's much to celebrate -- and to distract us from the shivering we feel while stepping out into increasingly chil...

If you don't want to deal with snarls on the Interstate and crowded airports this Labor Day weekend, stay in Chicago. The city has a multitude of ecle...

As the city’s neighborhood street fests wind down and the threat of colder air looms, Chicagoans can celebrate the last days of warm temperatures ov...

This year’s Movies in the Parks schedule has been killer, with plenty more great films to come this season. But that’s not the only movie event go...

Who: Damian Kulash Years in Chicago: From his early 20s into his late 20s Current City: Los Angeles Current Gig: OK Go’s lead vocalist L...

If you’re not among the more than 270,000 people planning to attend this weekend’s sold-out Lollapalooza, it's not a total loss. You can avoid the...

Last week, summer (and the unbearable heat) seemed like it would never end. As August draws near, fall is suddenly looming like never before. Time to ...

The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival kicks off this weekend in Logan Square, and will be unlike other neighborhood festivals you have attended so far th...

For more than 10 hours starting Tuesday morning, musicians from all over the city will gather in various public places to sing and play jazz, classica...

The air in North Center was thick with smoke and hypnotizing meaty aromas, as tens of thousands packed onto a few blocks of Lincoln Avenue for Ribfest...

Chicago’s summer festivals have seen their share of downsizing this year, but the Chicago Blues Festival lives on as a weekend-long summer standby. ...

With today's announcement of the day-by-day, hour-by-hour schedule Lollapalooza 2011, festival-goers finally have the opportunity to plot their plan o...