Şikago, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri: yıl boyunca neler var

Kalabalık — Amerika Birleşik Devletleri genelinde Winter / Christmas break, burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

Ocak ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Kas – 5 Mar (genelde)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Ara – 1 Mar (genelde))

Kalabalık — Chicago Auto Show

• Festival

  Chicago Auto Show

  7–20 Şub · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Kas – 5 Mar (genelde)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Ara – 1 Mar (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — St Patrick's Day river dyeing, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri genelinde Spring break

• Festival

  St Patrick's Day river dyeing

  13–18 Mar · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Kas – 5 Mar (genelde)), Lakefront wind chill (1 Ara – 1 Mar (genelde))

Ara sezon — sıradan bir ay

• Doğa

  Spring migration at Montrose Point

  20 Nis – 31 May · geneldeKuş gözlem sezonu

  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. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — hava açısından en iyi aylarından biri

• Açılış

  Lakefront beach season

  22 May – 7 Eyl · geneldeYaz sezonu açılıyor

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Spring migration at Montrose Point (20 Nis – 31 May (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — gezginler burayı yüksek sezon olarak anlatıyor, Chicago Pride Parade

• Festival

  Chicago Blues Festival

  1–10 Haz · geneldeMüzik festivali

  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. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Chicago Pride Parade

  22–30 Haz · geneldeKalabalıkKapanışlar

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Eyl (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Independence Day, Lollapalooza

• Tatil

  Independence Day

  3–5 TemResmî tatilKalabalıkKapanışlar

  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. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Lollapalooza

  28 Tem – 4 Ağu · geneldeMüzik festivaliKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Eyl (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Lollapalooza, Air and Water Show

• Festival

  Air and Water Show

  14–18 Ağu · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Eyl (genelde)), Lollapalooza (28 Tem – 4 Ağu (genelde))

Kalabalık — Amerika Birleşik Devletleri genelinde Summer break

Eylül ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lakefront beach season (22 May – 7 Eyl (genelde))

Kalabalık — Chicago Marathon

• Festival

  Chicago Marathon

  5–14 Eki · geneldeSpor etkinliğiKalabalıkKapanışlarErken rezervasyon

  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. Kaynak ↗

Çok kalabalık — Christkindlmarket, Thanksgiving

• Sezon

  Skating in Millennium Park

  15 Kas – 5 Mar · geneldeBuz sezonu

  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. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Christkindlmarket

  20 Kas – 24 Ara · geneldeNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

• Tatil

  Thanksgiving

  25–29 KasResmî tatilKalabalıkKapanışlar

  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. Kaynak ↗

Çok kalabalık — Christkindlmarket, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri genelinde Winter / Christmas break

• Risk

  Lakefront wind chill

  1 Ara – 1 Mar · geneldeRüzgâr sezonu

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Skating in Millennium Park (15 Kas – 5 Mar (genelde)), Christkindlmarket (20 Kas – 24 Ara (genelde)), Thanksgiving (25–29 Kas)