Chosen Few Picnic & House Music Festival

CTL-E-0616 · Event · other · 1990

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Chosen Few Picnic began in 1990 as a small gathering behind the Museum of Science and Industry and grew into a major annual Jackson Park house event. Connected organizers and DJs include Wayne Williams, Jesse Saunders, Alan King, Tony Hatchett, Andre Hatchett, Terry Hunter, Mike Dunn, and Kim Parham.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-070; source research type(s): event. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://metra.com/newsroom/take-metra-to-chosen-few-picnic-and-festival (primary source)
https://ra.co/news/29946

Record CTL-E-0616 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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