While the Lunar New Year was over a week ago, official celebrations for the holiday will be getting underway this weekend in Chicago with two separate parades.

The Lunar New Year itself celebrates the end of winter and the arrival of spring. A Lunar New Year celebration and parade was also held Saturday in the Asia on Argyle district, st ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Crowds gathered along Wentworth ... A Lunar New Year celebration and parade was also held Saturday in the Asia on Argyle district, starting at Argyle Street and Sheridan Road ...

The Chinatown festival is said to date back to Chicago’s first Chinese immigrants ... to Sunday night’s celebration.” Up north on Argyle Street, the annual festival goes back to when ...

at the Bezazian Library during Uptown’s Argyle Lunar New Year celebration in Chicago on Feb. 8, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune) Students from Haines Elementary School in Chinatown ...

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year, is a centuries-old tradition marking the end of winter and the beginning of the new year with the arrival of a new moon. The 15-day celebration ...

Naturally, now is as good a time as any to patronize the many excellent restaurants in Chicago’s Chinatown and the Vietnamese stretch of spots known as Asia on Argyle in Uptown. The Argyle Lunar ...