The Taste of Chicago is Here!

June 27 - July 6


It's time for the much anticipated annual Taste of Chicago with cuisines from more than 65 restaurants (this year expect more options for the health conscious), activities for family, and an outstanding line-up of music performances.

Location:
Grant Park, 300 S. Columbus Drive

Hours:
Opens at 11:00 a.m., food & beverage ticket sales end at 8:30 p.m., closes at 9:00 p.m.
July 3rd & 4th food & beverage ticket sales end at 9:00 p.m. and the event closes at 9:30 p.m.
On the final day, July 6th, the 2008 Taste of Chicago food & beverage ticket sales end at 5:30 p.m. and closes at 6 p.m.

Food & Drinks Tickets:
Food and drinks are sold by tickets only. Tickets are sold in strips of 12 for $8 at the festival. Each vendor has the food prices posted on their booth. More than 200 different food items are available at the event, with no food item costing more than 10 tickets. “Taste of” portions are available for 1-4 tickets.
Main Stage Performances at the Petrillo Music Shell:
Friday, June 27 at 5:30 p.m. CHAKA KHAN & ANGIE STONE
Saturday, June 28 at 5:30 p.m. STEVIE WONDER

Review (by Neonu)
I attended both of these shows. The Chaka and Angie concert was 4 hours of great entertainment. Both songstresses looked good and sounded even better. Chaka still has it (even though she forgot a few words - must say I was quite surprised) and she sang all her hits.

Now Stevie Wonder was an experience not to be missed. So those of you who missed it, sorry. You should not have. A true multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-age crowd came out in record numbers to hear Stevie perform for almost 3 hours. It was a 3 hour party. In a word - AWESOME!!


Sunday, June 29 at 5:00 p.m. PLAIN WHITE T'S JOSH KELLEY
Monday, June 30 at 6:00 p.m. BROADWAY IN CHICAGO "Taste" of the Best of Broadway headlined by the casts of Chicago's own JERSEY BOYS and WICKED, joined by the Broadway stars of LEGALLY BLONDE, A CHORUS LINE and others.
Tuesday, July 1 at 5:30 p.m. JOSS STONE & RYAN SHAW
Wednesday, July 2 at 5:30 p.m. FANTASIA & ESTELLE
Thursday, July 3 at 8:00 p.m. 28th ANNUAL INDEPENDENCE EVE CONCERT and at 9:30p.m. FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR
Friday, July 4 at 3:00 p.m. GOMEZ OLD 97'S & ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO and at
9:30 p.m. FIREWORKS
Saturday, July 5 at 5:30 p.m. BONNIE RAITT & DAVE BARNES
Sunday, July 6 at 2:00 p.m. ALY & AJ, A CURSIVE MEMORY & KEKE PALMER

Click Here for more info. See you at the Taste!