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.