18th Annual
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Labor Day Weekend · August 31 - September 3, 2007
DIRECTIONS

Enter the festival at the main gate on Cottage Grove at 51st street or Pierce Drive south of the Armory

From Downtown
  1. Turn RIGHT onto W CONGRESS KWY.

  2. W CONGRESS PKWY becomes EISENHOWER EXWY W/I-290 W.

  3. Take the I-90 E/I-94 E/I-90 W/RYAN EXPY/I-94 W/KENNEDY EXPY exit toward INDIANA/WISCONSIN.

  4. Take the exit.

  5. Merge onto DAN RYAN EXWY E/I-90 E/I-94 E
    via the exit- on the left- toward INDIANA.


  6. Take the exit- exit number 57A- toward 51ST ST.
  7. Stay straight to go onto S WELLS ST.

  8. Turn LEFT onto W 51ST ST.

  9. End at 5100 S Cottage Grove CHICAGO IL
From South
  1. Merge onto I-57 N via the ramp- on the left.

  2. Merge onto DAN RYAN EXWY W/I-94 W via the exit- on the left- toward CHICAGO LOOP.

  3. Take the exit- exit number 57A- toward 51ST ST.

  4. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto S WENTWORTH AVE.

  5. Turn RIGHT onto W 51ST ST.

  6. End at 5100 S Cottage Grove CHICAGO IL

From West
  1. EISENHOWER EXWY E/I-290 E via the ramp- on the left.

  2. Merge onto DAN RYAN EXWY E/I-90 E/I-94 E toward INDIANA.

  3. Take the exit- exit number 57A- toward 51ST ST.

  4. Stay straight to go onto S WELLS ST.


  5. Turn LEFT onto W 51ST ST.

  6. End at 5100 S Cottage Grove CHICAGO IL
Washington Park


Enter the festival at the main gate on Cottage Grove at 51st street or Pierce Drive south of the Armory


Free public parking available to the patrons of the African Festival of the Arts

University of Chicago Facility
55th & Ellis
Closes at 10:00 PM

University of Chicago Facility
55th & Cottage Grove Lot
Closes at 10:00 PM

University of Chicago Facility
57th & cottage Grove Garage
Closes at 10:00 PM

University of Chicago Facility
58th & Cottage Lot
Closes at 10:00 PM

Disabled street parking
52nd to 55th & Cottage Grove
West side of Cottage Grove

Note: all University of Chicago parking facilities close at 10:00 PM and cars in lot after 11:00 PM will be towed.

 


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