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24th Annual New Year's Day 5K Run/Walk |
Black History Month - 2009 |
Chicago Auto Show |
Chicago Cultural Center - Winter Exhibitions |
Chicago Humanities Festival |
Garfield Park Conservatory |
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24th Annual New Year's Day 5K Run/Walk
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. |
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Black History Month - 2009
Black History Month is a remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in most countries worldwide in the month of February, while in the UK it is held in the month of October.
The remembrance originated in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as "Negro History Week". Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Woodson also founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. |
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Chicago Auto Show
First staged in 1901, the Chicago Auto Show is the largest auto show in North America and has been held more times than any other auto exposition on the continent. 2009 marks the 101st edition of the show. |
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Chicago Boat - RV and Outdoors Show
Whether it's on land or in water, the Chicago Boat, RV & Outdoors Show is the destination choice for outdoor enthusiasts. As the biggest show in the Midwest, exhibitors fill over 350, 000 square feet of exhibit space with over 600 boats, 200 RV's and hundreds of booths filled with marine accessories, travel resorts and outfitters. The show is the place to view, board and buy everything you need for summer fun. |
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Chicago Cultural Center - Sunday Salon Series
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs continues its Sunday Salon Series of innovative music and performance programs in Winter/Spring 2009. The series is one of the most popular at the Chicago Cultural Center and regularly draws capacity crowds. The weekly series, which began in 2000, showcases a wide variety of classical music by local, national and internationally based classical artists. |
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Chicago Cultural Center - Winter Exhibitions
Winter 2009 Exhibitions
This season features a retrospective of abstract artist William Conger. |
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Chicago Humanities Festival
Since 1990, world-renowned authors, scholars, poets, policy-makers, artists and performers have gathered each November at Chicago's many cultural institutions to celebrate the power of ideas in human culture. This year, the theme is “ Laughter.” Festival events will invite attendees to consider the many ethnic and cultural shadings of laughter, the battles around humor and political correctness, gallows humor and medical ethics, laughter as imagined by artists including |
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Chicago Restaurant Week 2010!
Tables are set at over 130 tantalizing eateries throughout the city for the 2nd Annual Chicago Restaurant Week. Food lovers will enjoy amazing opportunities to revisit their favorite spots – or sample some they've always wanted to try – for just $22.00 for 3-course prix-fixe lunches and $32.00 for 3-course prix-fixe dinners (excluding beverages, tax and gratuity).
Restaurants may offer lunch or dinner, or both, as a participant in Chicago Restaurant Week. |
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Chicago Winter Delights
Chicago Winter Delights 2010: Chicago’s Top 10 Winter Delights
Throughout the months of January and February, look for exciting events during Chicago's Top 10 Winter Delights a celebration of ten categories representing the city's well-known cultural past times provided by Chicago’s tourism and cultural partners:
- Culinary
- Dance
- Ethnic Celebrations
- Family Fun
- Fashion
- Handmade Arts
- History
- Jazz, Blues, & Gospel
- Opera, Classical
- Theater
- Immersion Weekends
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Garfield Park Conservatory
Chicago officially describes itself as a City in a Garden and backs-up that claim with an endless amount of top-notch parks and green space available to any visitor all year round. One of the places you can go to see a great example of an internationally renowned park system is the Garfield Park Conservatory on Chicago’s West Side. Four and a half acres of plants, including a gigantic fern room modeled after prehistoric Illinois. This huge greenhouse was built in 1908 and is one of the oldest and largest in the United States. |
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