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Right in the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community is a park called Humboldt Park. Within that park is an open-air boathouse. Within that area, every year, the organization known as Jazz in Chicago holds a Latin Jazz Festival. It is one day every summer and it is totally, and completely free.
This year the event is being held July 11, 2008. That would be today, in case you don’t have a calendar handy. In case you are not familiar with Jazz in Chicago, well, you should check out the link above. They are another …read more

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I am still trying to keep an eye out for various festivals and things in and around the Chicago area.  Thankfully, there are a lot of those, especially when you consider the suburbs as well.  Of course, many of them are still a long ways off, but it never hurts to plan ahead.  Thanks to WDCB for the information below about the JazzCit Latin Jazz Festival.
JIC’s JazzCity Series: Latin Jazz Festival 
General Event Information 
Price:  free 
 
Dates and Times:  Friday, July 11; 7 p.m. 
Artist/Group:  Carlos Garcia’s Cuatrissimo, vocalist Nythia Rivera, and Jose Papo Santiago’s Infraverde 
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