417 free events to explore in Chicago over the next 30 days

Vinyl Collectiv x SILK presents: Sounds Before The Grounds, a vinyl day-party at Reckless Records. Come hang with us before the Lollapalooza grounds open and kick off one of the biggest weekends in Chicago!! 3-hour live DJ set by SILK. Featuring DJ Twelve Gage & J. Stereo Crates

The National After Dark | An Evening for Collectors and Builders The greatest card show on earth takes over Chicago. Coinflow & Tradepost take over the night. The 46th National Sports Collectors Convention rolls into town the same week the whole city is running on Lolla energy. C

HeyGen's Infinitely Me pop-up is coming to Chicago! This is an invite-only experience for the builders, creators, and visionaries shaping what's next in AI! This is a drop-in networking event — feel free to come by anytime throughout the day from 11AM onward. Register with your n

Please join us as Adam Lupu presents his talk "Total Recall is Overrated: What Agents Should Learn from How We Forget". We teach machines to remember the way we wish we could — perfectly, forever, on demand. But human memory isn’t a database. It’s lossy, associative, and shaped b

We all have a stake in the future. We all can work systematically to imagine and work toward the futures we want. Chicago Futures Salon is this city's home for futures thinking and strategic foresight: the discipline of exploring what might happen next so you can make better deci

Join us for a casual Longevity Chicago happy hour at the Chicago Athletic Association, right on Michigan Avenue. We’re gathering for easy conversation and a chance to meet other people in Chicago who are curious about longevity, healthspan, and what it actually looks like to live

Chicago Stablecoin Day Chicago doesn't wait for permission. We built the world's financial rails once already. & we're doing it again with stablecoins. Chicago Stablecoin Day is the first dedicated stablecoin event in the city, bringing together founders, developers, VCs, and ope

Robert's Westside Presents: RADIUM SWING BAND @ Bobby's Eastside Radium Swing is an acoustic band performing Gypsy Jazz Manouche in the style of Django Reinhardt and the legendary Quintette du Hot Club de France. Their repertoire also includes Western Swing, New Orleans–style jaz