På gång i Chicago, United States under året

Mycket folk — Winter / Christmas break i United States, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Skating in Millennium Park (15 nov – 5 mar (vanligtvis)), Lakefront wind chill (1 dec – 1 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Chicago Auto Show

• Festival

  Chicago Auto Show

  7–20 feb · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Skating in Millennium Park (15 nov – 5 mar (vanligtvis)), Lakefront wind chill (1 dec – 1 mar (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — St Patrick's Day river dyeing, Spring break i United States

• Festival

  St Patrick's Day river dyeing

  13–18 mar · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Skating in Millennium Park (15 nov – 5 mar (vanligtvis)), Lakefront wind chill (1 dec – 1 mar (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

• Natur

  Spring migration at Montrose Point

  20 apr – 31 maj · vanligtvisFågelsäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — en av dess bästa vädermånader

• Öppning

  Lakefront beach season

  22 maj – 7 sep · vanligtvisSommarsäsongen öppnar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Spring migration at Montrose Point (20 apr – 31 maj (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Chicago Pride Parade

• Festival

  Chicago Blues Festival

  1–10 jun · vanligtvisMusikfestival

  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. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Chicago Pride Parade

  22–30 jun · vanligtvisTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lakefront beach season (22 maj – 7 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Independence Day, Lollapalooza

• Helg

  Independence Day

  3–5 julNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Lollapalooza

  28 jul – 4 aug · vanligtvisMusikfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lakefront beach season (22 maj – 7 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Lollapalooza, Air and Water Show

• Festival

  Air and Water Show

  14–18 aug · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lakefront beach season (22 maj – 7 sep (vanligtvis)), Lollapalooza (28 jul – 4 aug (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer break i United States

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Lakefront beach season (22 maj – 7 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Chicago Marathon

• Festival

  Chicago Marathon

  5–14 okt · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångtStängningarBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Christkindlmarket, Thanksgiving

• Säsong

  Skating in Millennium Park

  15 nov – 5 mar · vanligtvisIssäsong

  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. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Christkindlmarket

  20 nov – 24 dec · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Thanksgiving

  25–29 novNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Christkindlmarket, Winter / Christmas break i United States

• Risk

  Lakefront wind chill

  1 dec – 1 mar · vanligtvisVindsäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Skating in Millennium Park (15 nov – 5 mar (vanligtvis)), Christkindlmarket (20 nov – 24 dec (vanligtvis)), Thanksgiving (25–29 nov)