Chicago House Music Festival & Conference

CTL-E-0617 · Event · other · 2016

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The festival's lineage traces to a Chicago House Party at Millennium Park in 2016; the named Chicago House Music Festival was operating by 2018 with performance, conference, dance-workshop, and vinyl-fair components. The festival represents the city's official institutionalization of house music — municipal recognition of the genre's Chicago origins.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-071; source research type(s): event. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://5mag.net/featured/chicago-house-music-festival-2018/
https://chicagolivereport.com/site/festivals/features/housemusic-fest-2026

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