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June 15 – Sept. 8, 2024 Free admission • Grant Park and parks citywide The annual SummerDance festival brings people of all ages and skill…

This post was originally published by Block Club Chicago. Chicago has a penchant for dance — and it’s celebrating the hop, cha-cha slide and other…

Published on April 26, 2022 by Jennifer Billock

Chicago has been an innovative force on the dance scene for more than 100 years. The city rocked the dance world in the 1920s when…

Salsa, rumba, or waltz your way into spring during the seventh annual Chicago Dance Month. Through the entire month of April, an array of cultural…

Published on March 28, 2019 by Rosalind Cummings-Yeates