Chicago Blues Festival

CTL-E-0618 · Event · other · 1984

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Chicago Blues Festival began in 1984 in Grant Park and is billed as the largest free blues festival in the world. The festival institutionalized Chicago blues as civic heritage, programming South and West Side legends alongside national acts on City stages.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-073; source research type(s): event. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_bluesfestival.html (primary source)

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