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ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.
Chicago musicians that have performed at Navy Pier include Chicago in '79 for ChicagoFest, Cheap Trick in '82, Buddy Guy in '93, Wilco in '95 (the year Navy Pier opened to the public), Milwaukee's BoDeans in '99, South Bend's Umphrey's McGee in '05 on the Skyline Stage, Local H in '14 in the Grand Ballroom, and Kaskade in '13. Other musicians ...
The park has hosted concerts, [3] film screenings, [12] and other events, such as fitness classes, [13] ice cream socials, [14] public art exhibitions, [15] [16] and Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Shakespeare in the Park series. [17] The space has been considered to host Taste of Chicago. [18] In 2022, the park hosted a pop-up Pixar-themed mini ...
In June 2020, the event was one of several Chicago events officially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; [8] it was replaced by "Taste of Chicago To-Go" programming that included an online directory of vendors, video cooking demonstrations and performances, a food truck procession, and an expansion of the existing Community Eats program ...
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth education and family oriented programming.
In mid-1918, the pier was also used as a jail for draft dodgers. In 1927, the pier was renamed Navy Pier to honor the naval veterans who served in World War I. [7] In 1941, during World War II, the pier became a training center for the United States Navy; about 10,000 people worked, trained and lived there. The pier contained a 2,500-seat ...
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium: 40,500 1981 Pier 6 Pavilion: Baltimore: 4,400 September 6, 1998 M&T Bank Stadium: 71,008 October 23, 1962 CFG Bank Arena: 14,000 December 15, 2004 Rams Head Live! 1,500 Halloween 1894 Lyric Performing Arts Center: 2,564 2004 Hippodrome Theatre: 2,300 February 3, 2018 Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena ...
The Infinity Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Journey. ... Navy Pier (ChicagoFest 1978) August 9, 1978 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium