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is an admission-free, four-day annual jazz festival in
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681:"Dear Jazz Fest: Nice move-- here are 10 more to make"
645:"Chicago Jazz Festival 1979-2004-updated (to 2008)"
861:"2022 Full Schedule for the Chicago Jazz Festival"
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716:"The Reader's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival"
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2062:Pitchfork Music Festival
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1385:Burnham Plan of Chicago
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1991:NIU Convocation Center
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765:"City of Chicago Home"
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1920:Rialto Square Theatre
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1764:Maxwell Street Market
1759:Jay Pritzker Pavilion
1749:Guaranteed Rate Field
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1215:Man Enters the Cosmos
1110:Big Beaver Totem Pole
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1981:Credit Union 1 Arena
1774:Petrillo Music Shell
1229:Olmec Head, Number 8
1145:Christopher Columbus
1056:Petrillo Music Shell
989:BP Pedestrian Bridge
427:Amina Claudine Myers
411:Muhal Richard Abrams
404:, Steven Bernstein,
327:, an Afro Jazz Opera
324:Memory in the Center
189:Roosevelt University
143:Karl E. H. Seigfried
110:Petrillo Music Shell
100:Subsequent festivals
66:Petrillo Music Shell
3591:Straight, No Chaser
3380:Straight-ahead jazz
2837:Winter & Winter
2286:French horn in jazz
2093:Checkerboard Lounge
2021:Wharton Field House
2001:Peoria Civic Center
1830:Buddy Guy's Legends
1194:Large Interior Form
1127:Bust of Georg Solti
1103:America's Courtyard
1082:8th Street Fountain
994:Buckingham Fountain
984:Auditorium Building
910:Photos of 2006 Fest
905:Photos of 2007 Fest
900:Photos of 2008 Fest
714:(August 31, 2007).
679:(August 23, 2013).
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3360:British dance band
3150:European free jazz
3123:British dance band
2616:Musicians by genre
2396:Free improvisation
1820:Auditorium Theatre
1815:Arie Crown Theater
1798:Theaters and clubs
1395:Millennium Station
1334:Ida B. Wells Drive
920:2019-06-14 at the
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2006:State Farm Center
1905:Paramount Theatre
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1051:Nichols Bridgeway
1029:Adler Planetarium
1014:Maggie Daley Park
999:Burnham Pavilions
789:. City of Chicago
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560:Jeff "Tain" Watts
331:Terence Blanchard
196:COVID-19 pandemic
108:2007 Festival at
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3268:Washington, D.C.
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2475:Progressive jazz
2329:Avant-garde jazz
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1945:Virginia Theatre
1930:Rosemont Theatre
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