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JULY 2019

 

Featured Events
Taste of Chicago










Millennium Park Summer Theatre Residencies _Chicago Dance Crash pictured_










July 10-14
Grant Park
Taste of Chicago, the world's largest FREE-admission food festival, serves up over 300 menu items from more than 70 eateries; plus music, arts and family fun. The evening concert lineup includes Courtney Barnett, Bomba Estéreo, De La Soul, The Strumbellas, India.Arie and more. Concert seating tickets are on sale now at tasteofchicago.us.
July-October
Millennium Park
All the world's a stage - especially at Millennium Park this summer. As part of the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre, the free series presents site-specific performances by nine local theatre companies performing throughout Millennium Park: Aguijón Theater Company, Barrel of Monkeys, CircEsteem, Chicago Dance Crash, Chicago Full Moon Jam Productions, Collaboraction Theatre Company, Emerald City Theatre, eta Creative Arts Foundation and Free Street Theater. More info at millenniumpark.org.
July Events

Millennium Park InstaGreeter Service Millennium Park Summer Film Series Dame Myra Hess Concerts
Millennium Park InstaGreeter Service
Daily, through October 6
Departs from the Chicago Cultural Center
Tuesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
Millennium Park
Dame Myra Hess Concerts
July 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 
Chicago Cultural Center
Grant Park Music Festival Chicago Cultural Center Learning Lab Maxwell Street Market
Grant Park Music Festival
July 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 & 31
Millennium Park   
Learning Lab Meet an Artist
July 5, 6, 13, 19, 20 & 27 
Chicago Cultural Center
Maxwell Street Market
July 7, 14, 21 & 28
800 S. Desplaines St.

Presented by   
Humana
Stories_ Songs and Circle Games Millennium Park Music Series Animal Encounters_ Raptors_
Millennium Park, Lurie Garden 
Millennium Park Music Series
July 8, 18, 25 & 29   
Millennium Park  
July 9 & 23
Millennium Park, Lurie Garden
CIFF International Screenings Program _The Camino Voyage_ Grant Park Music Festival_s Visiting Masters Millennium Park Summer Theatre Residencies _Dance Crash pictured_
Chicago Cultural Center 
Chicago Cultural Center
Millennium Park 
New Music Chicago Presents WTTW Saturday Film Series _POV_ Roll Red Roll pictured_ Crossing Borders Music _Marianne Parker pictured_
Chicago Cultural Center 
Chicago Cultural Center
July 21 
Chicago Cultural Center
Mexican Indigenous Music Festival Art In the Garden Chicago Jazz Philharmonic_
Millennium Park  
Millennium Park, Lurie Garden 
July 22
Millennium Park
Chamber Mondays Sunday Science_ Insects National Veterans Art Museum Triennial_ On War _ Survival
Chamber Mondays
July 22
Chicago Cultural Center
Millennium Park, Lurie Garden
Chicago Cultural Center  
Chicago_ The Play_ The Movies_ The Musical...The Murders After School Matters Summer Program
Chicago Cultural Center 
Chicago Cultural Center 
After School Matters Summer Program
Weekdays, Through August 9 
Millennium Park 
Family Fun Festival Chicago SummerDance Millennium Park Workouts
Family Fun Festival
Weekdays, Through August 9  
Millennium Park  
Chicago SummerDance
Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun, Through August 24
Grant Park's Spirit of the Music Garden & Chicago Park District locations
Tue, Thu & Sat, Through August 31
Millennium Park
Hanging from the street poles along Wabash Ave. between Washington and Randolph Streets
Chicago Cultural Center 
City Gallery on the Historic Water Tower

Featured News
Courtney Barnett Taste of Chicago Concert Tickets are On Sale Now
The Taste of Chicago presents a lineup of chart-topping headliners, including Courtney Barnett, Bomba Estéreo, De La Soul, The Strumbellas, India.Arie and more. Seating tickets are on sale now for the Petrillo Music Shell's general admission, premium admission and Taste Oasis-a prime concert viewing experience. The Oasis is already sold out for some concerts! Visit tasteofchicago.us to get your tickets.
  

presenting sponsor
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2019 Year of Chicago Theatre $1.3 Million in Direct Support to the Local Theatre Community is Awarded through the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre
As part of the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and DCASE have announced more than $835,750 in financial grants to 116 theatre and dance artists, nonprofit theatres and other community organizations - with a special focus on supporting theatre on the South, Southwest and West Sides. In addition to these Cultural Grants Program funds, DCASE will provide more than $448,650 in performance fees and commissions to showcase 157 theatres, theatre-makers and dance-makers as part of its free public programming. For more information on the Year of Chicago Theatre, visit chicago.gov/theatre.

Save the Date
Maxwell Street Market
Free, Free, Free!
Theater on the Lake
Theater on the Lake: The Chicago Summer Theater Festival 
Prime time performances are Tuesday-Friday at 7pm and Thursday matinees at 2pm (except where noted) 
Theater on the Lake, 2401 N. Lake Shore Dr. 
 
Chicago Park District's Theater on the Lake: The Chicago Summer Theater Festival, is celebrating 67 years of Chicago's rich storefront theater and emerging artist community. Featured July highlight:  
 
Manual Cinema's The End of TV  
Written by: Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter  
Directed by: Julia VanArsdale Miller  
July 16-19, 2019 | 7pm  
Theater on the Lake, 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive  
 
Find a full schedule of events at www.chicagoparkdistrict.com
   
 
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Other Highlights

Chicago Cultural Center Calendar
 
 
 
Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park  
Millennium Park Calendar
 
 
 
Chicago City Markets  
Through October
Various Locations
 
Presented by
Humana  
 
   
 
Chicago Riverwalk