芝加哥（美國）全年活動

人多 — 美國的Winter / Christmas break、主要客源市場中有 2 個正逢學校假期

1月沒有新的活動開始。

仍在進行： Skating in Millennium Park（11月15日–3月5日（通常））、Lakefront wind chill（12月1日–3月1日（通常））

人多 — Chicago Auto Show

• 節慶

  Chicago Auto Show

  2月7–20日 · 通常重要節慶人潮多

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Skating in Millennium Park（11月15日–3月5日（通常））、Lakefront wind chill（12月1日–3月1日（通常））

人潮高峰 — St Patrick's Day river dyeing、美國的Spring break

• 節慶

  St Patrick's Day river dyeing

  3月13–18日 · 通常重要節慶人潮多

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Skating in Millennium Park（11月15日–3月5日（通常））、Lakefront wind chill（12月1日–3月1日（通常））

平季 — 是普通的月份

• 自然

  Spring migration at Montrose Point

  4月20日–5月31日 · 通常賞鳥季

  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. 來源 ↗

人多 — 是天氣最好的月份之一

• 開放

  Lakefront beach season

  5月22日–9月7日 · 通常夏季開放

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Spring migration at Montrose Point（4月20日–5月31日（通常））

人潮高峰 — 旅人形容這時是旺季、Chicago Pride Parade

• 節慶

  Chicago Blues Festival

  6月1–10日 · 通常音樂節

  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. 來源 ↗

• 節慶

  Chicago Pride Parade

  6月22–30日 · 通常人潮多有休業

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Lakefront beach season（5月22日–9月7日（通常））

人潮高峰 — Independence Day、Lollapalooza

• 假期

  Independence Day

  7月3–5日國定假日人潮多有休業

  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. 來源 ↗

• 節慶

  Lollapalooza

  7月28日–8月4日 · 通常音樂節人潮多要早訂

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Lakefront beach season（5月22日–9月7日（通常））

人潮高峰 — Lollapalooza、Air and Water Show

• 節慶

  Air and Water Show

  8月14–18日 · 通常重要節慶人潮多

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Lakefront beach season（5月22日–9月7日（通常））、Lollapalooza（7月28日–8月4日（通常））

人多 — 美國的Summer break

9月沒有新的活動開始。

仍在進行： Lakefront beach season（5月22日–9月7日（通常））

人多 — Chicago Marathon

• 節慶

  Chicago Marathon

  10月5–14日 · 通常體育賽事人潮多有休業要早訂

  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. 來源 ↗

人潮高峰 — Christkindlmarket、Thanksgiving

• 季節

  Skating in Millennium Park

  11月15日–3月5日 · 通常冰雪季

  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. 來源 ↗

• 節慶

  Christkindlmarket

  11月20日–12月24日 · 通常耶誕與跨年人潮多

  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. 來源 ↗

• 假期

  Thanksgiving

  11月25–29日國定假日人潮多有休業

  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. 來源 ↗

人潮高峰 — Christkindlmarket、美國的Winter / Christmas break

• 風險

  Lakefront wind chill

  12月1日–3月1日 · 通常風季

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Skating in Millennium Park（11月15日–3月5日（通常））、Christkindlmarket（11月20日–12月24日（通常））、Thanksgiving（11月25–29日）