Things to do in Black Chicago
Last update: 7.6.26 at 5:18 pm CT - Events will be updated regularly.
🏢 Company (if different from venue) | 🎟️ Event + Ticket hyperlink | 📍 Venue
🛍️ Marketplace 🎤 Open Mic 🎉 Party/Social 🏀 Sports 🎭 Theatre ✈️ Travel 🌿 Wellness; NB=NonBlack
Experiences
🎶 Candlelight Concerts | Candlelight: Tribute to Lauryn Hill (You must purchase early; next show - Sep 5) | Congress Plaza Hotel
Fever Experiences
Unique experiences from immersive art exhibits and candlelight concerts to food events, comedy shows, pop-up experiences, and more.
Events
Multiple Dates
Jul 8 - 12: Taste of Chicago | Main Stage Lineup | Food
Tue, Jul 7
😂 Dustin Ross Live | City Winery Chicago
🎶 Tuesdays on the Terrace | MCA Chicago
🎉 Sigma Chris | DND | Bar Tabu
Wed, Jul 8
🩷🌍 The Pink Collar Club | Chicago Pink Hour: Founder's Bday Edition - (IG) | St. Regis
🍹 Wednesday Happy Hour | Wellsey Tavern
Thu, Jul 9
🌍 What’s Good: The Birthday Block Party w/ Shari Currie and Naja Morris | Recycled Modern
🍗 Taste of Chicago | Keya Trammell - Goose Island Stage | Grant Park
🍽️🎉 Chicago Food Collective | Launch Party (IG) | After (West Loop)
📺🩷 What the Girls are Doing | Love Island Watch Party | KAMA
🍹 Love Jones Thursdays | Prive (Inside Provare)
🎶🌍 Harper Court Summer Music Series: Rich Medina | Harper Court (Hyde Park)
🎶For Music Lovers | Dine and Vibe | The Duplex Chicago
🚢🎉 BLVCKSCENE | First Wave (July 7th: Mandatory Float & Safety Plan) | Secret Downtown Chicago Location
🎶 DuSummer Music Series: Megean McNeal (IG) |
DuSable Museum Roundhouse Plaza
🎶 The Jenipher Jones Experiment (Reservations) | Lazybird
🥙🛍️🌍 Thursday Night Beats & Bites | Roosevelt Collection
🎉 Friday Jr. | Wellsey Tavern
Fri, Jul 10
🎨 Nyia Dela Sissac | Black. Black. Black. (Opening Reception) | Hoste
📒 Write About Now | Write About Now Poetry | Logan Square Auditorium
🍹 Love Jones Thursdays | Prive (Inside Provare)
🎶🎉 Motion Collective | Club Motion (IG) | Bookclub
🎶 Bronzeville Summer Nights (IG) | Cottage Grove (43rd- 45th)
🎶 Ella Mai | Do You Still Love Me? Tour | The Salt Shed (Outdoor - Fairgrounds)
🎶 The Session | R&B Jam Session | City Winery Chicago
🍸 Feelin' Good Fridays w/ Kickin' Kenny | Prive
🚢🎉 BLVCKSCENE | 10 Year Anniversary Weekend | Secret Northside Chicago Location
🎉 First Class Fridays | Hue
Sat, Jul 11
🎾 Love All Tennis Society | Matchas & Matches | Hyde Park
🎶 Saturday Soul Session w/ Mara Love | Afro Joe's Coffee & Tea
🎶🧺 Chosen Few DJs | Picnic & Music Festival f/ Guest DJ Jazzy Jeff (IG) | Jackson Park
🎶🍗 Babyface at The Taste of Chicago | Grant Park
🎶 Tom Swoope | Hip Hop + R&B Bingo (2 shows) | City Winery Chicago
🍸 Live Music Saturdays f/ Kristen Lowe | Prive
☀️🎉 A.M. Vibes P.M. Energy (IG) | Azul
🚢🎉 Icehaus Events | Pier Pressure Yacht Party (IG) | Anita Dee Charters
🚢🎉 BLVCKSCENE | Brunch Pre-Game | ETC Chicago
🎉 BLVCKSCENE | After the Lotus Party | BLVCKSCENE
🎉 Looking for Love 90s | Wellsey Tavern
🎉 Nile Nights | Sleeping Village
🎉 Darty Maxxing: With Frags and Matty - Afrobeats + Amapiano + Brazilian Funk | Hubbard Inn
🎉 Collective Unified | Drip Check - Best Dress Competition Blackout Edition | Urban Jungle
🎉 thesoireesociety773 | Soiree Saturdays: Pretty Girls Love Vibes & Music - IG | Chalet
Sun, Jul 12
📺🩷 What the Girls are Doing | Love Island Watch Party | Three Top Lounge (The Salt Shed)
🌍🩷 Church Girl | SL Wine Bar
🎉 Mike Fresh & Big C | Summer Bash 2K26 - BYOB (IG) | Cafe Latte (5811 W. Chicago Ave.)
🎉 Party Like This | Summers Like This Day Party (IG) | Expat
🎉 Club Yaya Day Party - Juke, House, and Ghetto tech to Hip Hop, R&B (IG) | Sunnygun
🚢🎉 BLVCKSCENE | Boat Day | Playpen Chicago
Mon, Jul 13
🎉 Afrobeats on the Beach | Pier 31 Restaurant, 3101 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive