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Lollapalooza is a three day eight stage music festival and Grant Park in downtown Chicago is the annual host of Lollapalooza. This festival is held in August and features heavy metal, alternative rock, hip hop, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. The festival has been instrumental in the popularizing of bands like Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hole, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Strokes, Green Day and Depeche Mode.

The Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual summer music festival held in Union Park, Chicago. This annual festival is normally held in the month of July and spreads over three days Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The festival focuses mainly on bands from alternative rock, rap/hip-hop, and electronica/dance, and sometimes includes hardcore punk, experimental/avant-garde rock and jazz in its lineups.

Grant Park Music Festival is an annual ten week classical music series held in Chicago. The Grant Park Music Festival has been a Chicago tradition since 1931 when free concerts were performed to lift spirits of Chicagoans during the Great Depression. Formerly, the Grant Park Music Festival was held at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park but currently the Festival is housed in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. The festival features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with featured guest performers and conductors.

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Chicago, the seat of Illinois’s Cook County, is the largest city in both Illinois and the Midwest. It is the third most populous city in the United States housing a population estimation of around 2.8 million people. The jewel of America’s heartland, Chicago is a national transportation, industrial, telecommunications, and financial leader as well as a city of great architectural significance, ethnic diversity, and cultural wealth. Chicago is one of the most culturally diverse and fun cities in the world that blends the style and sophistication of the country’s biggest cities with the friendliness of the hard-working Midwest.

CLIMATE

Chicago has an extreme climate with very hot summers and bitterly cold winters and experiences four distinct seasons. The city lies within the humid continental climate zone, resulting in warm and humid summers from June to the end of September. The summers are prone to thunderstorms. Winters are mild, windy with a few sunny days now and then.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

When in Chicago, one finds oneself faced with a great orientation, informative, historical and current-day information, heaps of unique and fascinating stories about the city and its many aspects. Chicago’s most popular attractions are the Buckingham Fountain, Hancock Observatory, Lincoln Park Zoo, Millennium Park, Navy Pier, Sears Tower Skydeck, Shedd Aquarium, Wrigley Field and many more. Also known as the ‘Windy City’, Chicago is a traveler’s dream.

TRANSPORT

Chicago, like any big city, has its share of traffic issues, with the city roads struggling to keep up the pace with the fast changing life style of the city. Sometimes it is exhausting and even frustrating to travel by car despite effective traffic control. Many suggest that the public transit system is the easier option with its services ranging from trains and buses to taxis. The Chicago transit authority is responsible for the governance of the public transit.

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AIRPORT

Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD) is one of America’s best-connected airports, situated on the south side of the city, currently ranking as the world’s second busiest airport. Over 70 million people a year travel through Chicago O’Hare International Airport, for many years was the USA’s busiest until Atlanta Airport took its place.

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