CULTURETECHLENSTaste of Chicago
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Combined Graph record U-00250 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0004. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Taste of Chicago was first held in 1980, on July 4, on Michigan Avenue between Wacker Drive and Ohio Street, as a one-day event with 36 vendors (Sun-Times, quoting DCASE Taste manager Neal Heitz). It is an annual DCASE festival now held in Grant Park, free to enter ('no admission, no gate charge').
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Taste of Chicago was first held in 1980, on July 4, on Michigan Avenue between Wacker Drive and Ohio Street, as a one-day event with 36 vendors (Sun-Times, quoting DCASE Taste manager Neal Heitz). It is an annual DCASE festival now held in Grant Park, free to enter ('no admission, no gate charge').
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- City: Chicago
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- Chicago Sun-Times, 'Taste of Chicago opens to showcase food from dozens of restaurants' (Sept 2024; photos Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times), fetched via smi24.net republication, m.smi24.net/english/387112355/ (verification source · master store)
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Taste of Chicago was first held in 1980, on July 4, on Michigan Avenue between Wacker Drive and Ohio Street, as a one-day event with 36 vendors (Sun-Times, quoting DCASE Taste manager Neal Heitz). It is an annual DCASE festival now held in Grant Park, free to enter ('no admission, no gate charge').
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