Winter

November 16th to March 14th 
Rent some ice skates and skate to your heart's content at one of the many ice rinks in the parks this winter. With two downtown locations, one at Millennium Park ( Skate rentals cost $10.00 at Millennium Park) and one at Daley Bicentennial Plaza, Chicago provides plenty of ice to skate on. 

Kick off 2009 on the healthy footing at the New Year's Day 5K Run & Walk. Chicago's first official 5K running event of 2009! This iconic annual run/walk  now celebrating its 24th year  is a fave with Windy City sports enthusiasts!
An estimated 1,500 runners and walkers are expected to lace up on the first day of the New Year at the run & walk that starts at the south end of Lincoln Park. The course route winds north along the lakefront bike path to Diversey Harbor before returning to the North Avenue Field House.

Ready, Set, Go! Only two weeks away, Chicago's Annual New Year's Day 5K Run & Walk - the first 5K running
event of 2007 (and themed "Master Your Universe") - will celebrate its 22nd year on Monday, January 1.

The Mayor's Office of Special Events ends the year with one final event, the New Year's Eve Fireworks celebration on Monday, December 31, which begins at approximately 11:40 pm at Buckingham Fountain.

Navy Pier hosts a separate New Year's show at the same time; each show will feature different pyrotechnics but be choreographed to the same music and will happen simultaneously. Other festivities at Navy Pier include a Ferris wheel countdown to 2008.

This is a one-day festival celebrating our city’s unprecedented appreciation of roots music and culture. Hosted by the legendary Congress Theatre, Kingtello, React Presents, a bevy of homegrown talent will unite with some of contemporary music’s most accomplished and influential artists for a day of collaboration and cause.

Forget the temperature! February in Chicago means "hot concerts" as the City of Chicago announces two fantastic opportunities to celebrate Jazz and Blues.

**Please visit our Event Calendar for up-to-date performance's**

Way back in Y2K, a simple design was put into action; invite several of the city’s best chicken wing serving restaurants to a competition to see, once and for all, who had the best wings in the city. 
“Chicago loves to eat!” was the unanimous thought amongst WingFest event organizers. Chicago also loves its competition, and the competition and feeding frenzy have combined to form the perfect storm of an event…the perfect chicken wing storm! There is no doubt that in its ten years, WingFest has become almost as much a part of Chicago as the numerous hotdog joints that line its cityscape, and now most of those joints also serve wings.