BLK in the City Events Guide 10.14 - 10.20 (2025)

Things to do in Black Chicago

Last update: 10.15.25 at 8:58 pm - Events will be updated regularly.
Company (if different from venue) | Event + Ticket hyperlink | Venue

Multiple Dates

🎭 Until Oct 19: Rome Sweet Rome (’90s hip hop & New Jack Swing) | Shakespeare Theatre
🎭 Until Oct 19: Disney's The Lion King | Cadillac Palace Theatre
🧥 Until Oct 19: Chicago Fashion Week | Various Events + Various Locations
🎥 Oct 15 - Oct 26: Chicago International Film Festival: Black Perspectives | Various Film; Various Locations
👻 Until Oct 31: Boo! at the Zoo | Brookfield Zoo
🎭 Until Nov 2: Rooted by Ben F. Locke (World Premiere Production) | Bramble Theatre
🏛️🎃 Until Nov 2: Pumpkin Lights + Frights | WNDR Museum
🎫🎃 Until Nov 2: Pumpkin Painting + Dining Experience | JoJo's Shakebar River North - Chicago
🎫🎃 Until Nov 2: Jack's Pumpkin | Chicago's Largest Fall Festival (corn maze + carnival games + axe throwing) | Goose Island to Downtown Chicago
😂 Until Mar 2026: This Too Shall Slap (improv) | Second City Chicago

Tue, Oct 14

🍷 GRAND OPENING! Park Manor 75 - Elevated Wine + Charcuterie Bar (reservations)
😂🍽️ Tiny Stage Dinner Comedy Series | Comedia Muhammad + Ohjay Lamont Hosted by Dawn B | Nafsi
🎉 Infamis Collective | Doechii Official After Party | Galeria
🎞️ Hocus Pocus Screening | Rooftop Cinema
🎞️ White Chicks Screening | Rooftop Cinema
🎶🎫 Aminé: Tour de Dance 2025 with Sango | The Salt Shed

Wed, Oct 15

🎥 Kevin Shaw | One Golden Summer Documentary (Chicago Int'l Film Festival) | Music Box Theatre
🧥 The Second Shift Fashion Show | Epiphany Center for the Arts
🎞️ Bucketlisters | Sinners Screening - Wine Wednesday | Rooftop Cinema
🎞️ Scream Screening (1996) | Rooftop Cinema

Thu, Oct 16

🎭 This Just In: Minority Report Update (comedy/improv) | iO Theater
🍽️ Diaspora Chicago | Supper Club Pop-up | Present Company
🍸 DJ Kid Clay | All R&B Every Thursday | Prive (Speakeasy) at Provare Restaurant
🌍 Umu Igbo Unite Chicago | Fall Networking Night (Meet fellow igbo professionals, entrepreneurs, and students) | Hue Chicago
🧥 14th Pharaoh Apparel R.A.W. (Chicago Fashion Week) | DuSable Black History Museum
🧥 Initiation: S.Rousseau’s Runway Show | Zhou B Art Center
🎞️ Death Becomes Her Screening | Rooftop Cinema
🎞️ Love Jones Screening | Rooftop Cinema
🎞️ Halloween (1978) Screening | Rooftop Cinema
🎉 Infamis Collective | Friday Jr | Signature
🎉 S.Rousseau's After Party sponsored by Sprite | King KTV Chinatown (Chicago)

Fri, Oct 17

🎶Fever | Candlelight Oak Park: Tribute to Bad Bunny | Arts Center of Oak Park
🎨🎶 Arts, Beats, & Lyrics | Aon Grand Ballroom
🏛️ WNDR Mystery at the Museum: The Masquerade Heist | WNDR Museum
🎞️ Scream Screening (1996) | Rooftop Cinema
🎞️ Friday the 13th (1980) | Rooftop Cinema
🎉 Freemind Global | FreeMind Fridays | Tony's Rooftop at TimeOut Market
🎉 Icehaus | Some Sexy Fridays 4 U: Fall Volumes | Hue Chicago
🎉 Afro x KHAOS | Sinner Themed Juke Joint | The.BlkRoom
🎉 A Night with D’Angelo & Angie Stone | In Session
🎤 Silverroom | Grown Folks Stories (Adult Storytelling) | The Promontory

Sat, Oct 18

🍂🌍 Bronzeville’s Fall Festival 2025 | Absolutely Anything Essential
👟🎗️ Amercian Cancer Society | Making Strides of Chicago Presented by Lemondhead (Itinerary) | Soldier Field
😂🎫 Bald Brothers: Kevonstage + Tony Baker | The Chicago Theatre
😂🎫 Sweetest Day Comedy Jam f/ Lavell Crawford + Bill Bellamy + T.K. Kirkland + more | Wintrust Arena
🎨 Flourish Accelerator | Business of Art Panel | 300 E. Randolph St.
🎶🎫 J.I.D: God Does Like Paradise Tour | Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
🎤 Write About Now Poetry Live in Chicago ft. LaRoyce Hawkins Hosted by Jeronimo Speaks | 2229 S Michigan Ave suite 407
🌿 Ase Wellness Market | Mama Africa's Marketplace
👻 Spooky Zoo | Lincoln Park Zoo (free + all ages)
🏛️ WNDR Mystery at the Museum: The Masquerade Heist | WNDR Museum
🧥 A Night In Bronze Fashion Showcase | CityPoint Loft
🎉 Huenique | Hue Chicago

Sun, Oct 19

🎨🌿 Art Therapy Hosted by Binkey + Sound Meditation w/Zen Frankie | Little Black Pearl
🔢🎶 Trap vs R&B Bingo w/ Comedian Thank You Chris | Riddles Comedy Club
📚 For Di Gyal Dem | Tales × Tea Book Club - Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans | Undisclosed Location
🧥 Corey Demon | "If You Never Went to Paris" presented by GRÉVYI | Undisclosed Location
🧥 Surround Sound of Fashion Hosted by Sharaun B + Dometi + performance by Yung Joc (Chicago Fashion Week) | CineCity Studios Chicago
☀️🎉 Dope After Dark | Lost in Kyoto: 1-800-House Party (Final Day Party) | Cerise Rooftop at Virgin Hotel Chicago
🎨🌃 Arts in the Dark: Chicago's Halloween Parade of Artists |  State Street from Lake to Van Buren (Downtown Chicago)
🛍️ Artisan Fall Market: Flagship Sunday Market | Morgan MFG (Fulton Market)
🎉 Neon Palm | Hue Chicago

Mon, Oct 20

🎶🎫 GIVEON: Dear Beloved, The Tour | Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom (Oct 20 +21 - This link is for Oct 20 only)
🎫🎃 Basic Witch Mixology at JoJo's Pumpkin Patch Chicago! | JoJo's Shake Bar - River North Chicago
🎞️ The Exorcist (1973) | Rooftop Cinema