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The festival, called Fiestas Patronales Puertorriqueñas, will feature new activities, such as a cookoff between firefighters, and new cultural art installations, including a banner stretching 20 feet wide where guests will use stickers to mark the towns they are from.
More than 50 events across Chicago featuring local designers will take place in October, with many open to the public and free to attend.
Sensory walks, a campfire feast and learning sessions with scientists are just some of the ways Illinoisans and out-of-towners alike can celebrate the historic double emergence of the 13-year and 17-year cicadas.
Victoria Moreno, 35, threw Josiah Brown into the water on Sept. 19, 2022, and watched him sink without trying to help, authorities allege.