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The Chosen Few DJs Picnic and Festival, the South Side’s long-running “Woodstock of House Music,” got off to an inauspicious start with an unexpectedly clammy morning on Saturday — but
The Chosen Few Picnic managed to fight through the rain and radiate sunshine on July 8, 2023. The house music picnic held in Jackson park on the South-Side of
Fun things to do in Chicago on the weekend of July 7-9.
The festival was started in 1990 by the Chosen Few DJs, a group of house music pioneers from Chicago. With house music’s recent rise in mainstream popularity, the event showcases the music that’s never left its birthplace.
Desiree Taylor, 47, from Baltimore, came to Chicago for the first time with eight friends who go to house music festivals every year for the “funkier” and “more soulful” approach of house music.