DCASE Millennium Park Concerts
Yes concerts across Chicago have been cancelled or postponed so the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is doing “Home,” a concert series you can catch on DCASE’s Youtube and Facebook pages..
It starts this weekend, May 22-23, with a DJ House mix that would have been in the city’s 5th Annual House Music Festival.
Next up, Gospel singers will be on the series May 29-30 because of Chicago’s 35th Annual Gospel Music Festival. That will be followed by blues, June 5-7 for what would have been the 37th Annual Blues Fest. For more information on the concerts, visit youtube/com/ChicagoDCASE.
HitPlay Chicago Museum Series
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s field trip goes to the Museum of Science and Industry
The field trip went live at HitPlay on Wednesday, May 20 and will be on WTTW the PBS TV station today, May 22 and again midday Monday, May 25.
An impressive building dating to the 1893 Columbian Exposition, MSI is known for, among other things, its coal mine experience. However, on this visit viewers will come across science experiments they may not be familiar with,and the popular indoor tornado section they may know of in the science Storm exhibit.
One stop that viewers may find fascinating and very current, is the Wanger Family Fab (fabrication) Lab that can make face shields.
Stay with the video to the Big Train Story where model trains go from Chicago to Seattle past well-known city buildings and mountain scenery.
For past field trips scroll down on HitPlay Chicago to see the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art.