Chicago Blues Festival 2025

A legendary Chicago event since 1984, the Chicago Blues Festival is the world’s largest free blues festival.

Each year, more than 500,000 blues fans gather in Chicago’s Millennium Park and venues across the city for multiple days of performances — all free and open to the public — featuring some of the genre’s most revered musicians, along with up-and-coming and local talent.

The Chicago Blues Festival always features a packed schedule of performances with four days of established and emerging talent in downtown Millennium Park, with dozens of performances and hundreds of artists celebrating the city’s iconic blues legacy.