The Chicago Traveler

• The African Festival of the Arts is Chicago’s largest neighborhood festival, featuring three music stages, ethnic cuisine, and more than 300 vendors selling everything from fine art to skin care products. Presentations include book discussions and dance workshops. (Aug 29 – Sept 1)
• The 30th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is the city’s longest-running lakefront music festival and features local, national, and international performers on several stages. (Aug 28-31)
• Get your fill of pierogi, Polish sausage, and sauerkraut at the Taste of Polonia, where you can listen to live bands play everything from rock to polka. (Aug 29 – Sept …read more

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Sensual Steps is a Chicago boutique that opened just a couple years ago. This store promotes a unique line of contemporary women’s shoes and accessories. But Nicole Jones just wasn’t getting the business she had hoped for in her South Side Sensual Steps Shoe Salon. (Whew, say that five times fast!) So, she decided to take her business to the streets.

Music, cocktails, chocolate, and shoes help create the ideal Girls’ Night Out. But this sexy shoe party comes to you, care of the Heels on Wheels. These gals get all decked out in their pink jumpers and bring the decorations …read more

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I think my last successful art project involved glue and dry macaroni. But I certainly can still appreciate the works of experienced art enthusiasts. Amateurs and experts alike will find delight in the Hyde Park Art Center, a non-profit organization on the south side of Chicago. Their mission? To stimulate and sustain the visual arts in the city. Established in 1939, it is the oldest alternative exhibition space in Chicago and has a long history of reaching out to the community.

The Center exhibits a wide range of work by emerging artists through its Exhibitions Program. Open house events, poetry readings, …read more

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