Here are a few festivals happening this week in Chicagoland. (Please send your festival listings to Friday Festivals, c/o Jodie Jacobs, 590 Longwood Drive, Lake Forest, IL 60045.)
CITY
Fiestas Puertoriquenas, noon-11:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Free. Humboldt Park, 1440 N. Sacramento Ave. 773-292-1414
Heart of Italy Food & Wine Festival, 5-11 p.m. Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday and noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. 24th Street and Oakley Avenue. 773-625-0506
Backyard Bash Community Festival, 5-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $5, free to children under 12 and adults 65 and older. Belmont Avenue and Greenview Avenues. 773-665-4682
Juneteenth Civil Rights Celebration, 10 a.m.-noon parade, noon-dusk programs Saturday. Free. 79th Street and the lakefront at Rainbow Beach Park. 773-684-6070
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Artists of the Wall Festival, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Artists registration $25 adults, $15 children 12 and under. Free admission. 6900 North on the lakefront at Loyola Beach. 773-250-3378
Grant Park Music Festival, 7:30-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and continuing 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays to Sundays through Aug. 18. Free. Petrillo Music Shell (other locations July 5-8), Grant Park, Columbus Drive and Jackson Boulevard. 312-742-4763
Lincoln Park Festival, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $5. Lincoln Park, Armitage Avenue at Lincoln Park West. 773-868-3010
Northcenter Chamber Ribfest, noon -10 p.m. Saturday, noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Lincoln and Warner Avenues. 773-525-3609
St. Bartholomew Annual Carnival, 6:30-11:30 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m.-midnight Saturday and 3-10:30 p.m. Sunday. Free admission, rides charge. Addison and Lavergne Avenues. 773-286-7871
St. George Greek Festival, 3-10 p.m. Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Sunday. Free. 2701 N. Sheffield Ave. 773-525-1793
Boulevard Lakefront Tour Bike Festival, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. ($30 registration, 6-7:30 a.m.) Sunday. Midway Plaisance, 59th Street and Woodlawn Avenue. 312-427-3325
Chicago SummerDance Festival, 6 p.m.-midnight opening night June 21, continues 6-9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and 2-5 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 2. Free. Spirit of Music Garden, Grant Park, 601 S. Michigan Ave. 312-742-4007
SUBURBS
Blues on the Fox, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Free. Downtown Aurora at River Street. 630-801-6590
Jazz at Ravinia, 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. $35 pavilion, $10 lawn. Ravinia Park, parking lot is on Green Bay Road just north of Lake Cook Road, Highland Park, or bus shuttle from downtown Highland Park at St. Johns Avenue and Central Street. 847-266-5100
Lockport Old Canal Days, 6:30 p.m.-midnight Friday, 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Canal Days Grounds, 1 block east of the intersection Illinois Highways 171 and 7, Lockport. 815-838-4744
Chicago Highland Games and Scottish Festival, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Saturday. $10 general, $7 adults 65 and older, $2 children under 10. Oak Brook Polo Grounds, 31st Street just west of York Road, Oak Brook. 708-442-7293
Herb Festival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free admission; parking $7.75. Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd., Glencoe. 847-835-5440
Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free. Burlington Park at Chicago and Garfield Avenues, Hinsdale. 630-323-3952
Park Ridge Art League Outdoor Art Fair, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free. Hodges Park at Prospect and Vine Avenues, Park Ridge. 847-698-3430
Custer’s Last Stand Festival of the Arts, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free. Business district Main to Washington Streets and Chicago to Sherman Avenues, Evanston. 773-868-3010