Chicago Jazz Festival

CTL-E-0619 · Event · other · 1979

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Chicago Jazz Festival began in 1979 (consolidating earlier August jazz programming) and programs jazz — including AACM and South Side artists — on free City stages. The festival's Labor Day weekend slot made it the civic counterpart to the Blues Festival, anchoring jazz in the city's official cultural calendar.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-074; 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_jazzfestival.html (primary source)

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