Story By: Charita Smith | CS3 MEDIA The 2024 Chicago Blues Festival The largest free Blues festival in the world returned to Chicago with opening night performances at the historic Ramova Theatre in B ...

Story By: Charita Smith | CS3 MEDIA Photos By: Charlie Smith | CS3 MEDIA The 2024 Chicago Gospel Music Festival was hosted by Sonya Blakey, DeAndre Patterson and VaShawn Mitchell. Cosmopolitan Church ...

Story By: Charita Smith | CS3 MEDIA This year, the Taste of Chicago was moved to September from its usual dates around the Fourth of July weekend because of the NASCAR Street Race. For over 40 ye ...

Story By: Charita Smith | CS3 MEDIA The 2023 Chicago Blues Festival was held June 8-11, 2023.  The four-day festival included 45 Blues performances by more than 250 artists on the Jay Pritzker St ...

Story By: Charita Smith | CS3 MEDIA Photos By: Charlie Smith | CS3 MEDIA To kick off the 2023 Chicago Gospel Music Festival, The Praize Productions’ RIZE Youth Company performed an excerpt from their ...