Qué hay en Chicago, Estados Unidos, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Winter / Christmas break en Estados Unidos, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Nov – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Dic – 1 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Chicago Auto Show

• Festival

  Chicago Auto Show

  7–20 Feb · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  The largest auto show in North America takes over McCormick Place for ten days in the deadest month, which is exactly why the city's hotels price February around it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Nov – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Dic – 1 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — St Patrick's Day river dyeing, Spring break en Estados Unidos

• Festival

  St Patrick's Day river dyeing

  13–18 Mar · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  The plumbers' union dyes the river green at mid-morning on the Saturday before the 17th, and the parade goes up Columbus Drive after it. The bridges over the main branch are full an hour ahead. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Nov – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Dic – 1 Mar (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Naturaleza

  Spring migration at Montrose Point

  20 Abr – 31 May · normalmenteTemporada de aves

  The lakefront funnels migrants into a few acres of scrub at Montrose, and on a good May morning the Magic Hedge holds more warbler species than most states see in a year. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — uno de sus mejores meses por clima

• Apertura

  Lakefront beach season

  22 May – 7 Sep · normalmenteApertura de verano

  The city's twenty-odd beaches are guarded from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day and effectively shut either side of it. Lake Michigan takes until August to become anything like swimmable. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Spring migration at Montrose Point (20 Abr – 31 May (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — los viajeros lo describen como muy concurrido, Chicago Pride Parade

• Festival

  Chicago Blues Festival

  1–10 Jun · normalmenteFestival de música

  Three free days in Millennium Park in early June, the first of the city's summer lakefront festivals and the one with the strongest claim on the place. No ticket, no fence. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Chicago Pride Parade

  22–30 Jun · normalmenteMucha genteCierres

  The last Sunday of June closes Broadway and Halsted through Lakeview for the afternoon, with the Red Line stations at Addison and Belmont exit-only for most of it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Independence Day, Lollapalooza

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  3–5 JulFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  The Fourth of July is a federal holiday: banks and government offices close, fireworks draw large crowds to parks and waterfronts after dark, and roads and flights are busy over the long weekend. Claim a viewing spot early. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Lollapalooza

  28 Jul – 4 Ago · normalmenteFestival de músicaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Four days and a hundred thousand people a day in Grant Park at the turn of July into August. The Loop hotels reprice around it and Michigan Avenue is a slow walk each evening. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Lollapalooza, Air and Water Show

• Festival

  Air and Water Show

  14–18 Ago · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  A free two-day show over North Avenue Beach in mid-August, with a full rehearsal on the Friday that most locals prefer. The whole north lakefront is the grandstand. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Sep (normalmente)), Lollapalooza (28 Jul – 4 Ago (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer break en Estados Unidos

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — Chicago Marathon

• Festival

  Chicago Marathon

  5–14 Oct · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha genteCierresReserva pronto

  Fifty thousand runners through twenty-nine neighbourhoods on a Sunday in early or mid-October, on the flattest big-city course there is. Downtown is closed to cars until the afternoon. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Christkindlmarket, Thanksgiving

• Temporada

  Skating in Millennium Park

  15 Nov – 5 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de hielo

  The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Christkindlmarket

  20 Nov – 24 Dic · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  The German market on Daley Plaza opens the week before Thanksgiving and runs to Christmas Eve, with sister markets in Wrigleyville and Aurora. Free to enter, and packed after work. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Thanksgiving

  25–29 NovFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, is the country's biggest travel holiday: airports and highways are at their busiest on the Wednesday before and the Sunday after, and on the day itself offices, banks and many shops close. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Christkindlmarket, Winter / Christmas break en Estados Unidos

• Riesgo

  Lakefront wind chill

  1 Dic – 1 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de viento

  Arctic air over an unfrozen lake is what makes a Chicago winter its own category: the thermometer understates it badly, and a walk along the lakefront path in January is a different proposition to the same walk two streets inland. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Nov – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Christkindlmarket (20 Nov – 24 Dic (normalmente)), Thanksgiving (25–29 Nov)