Move! Chicago House Music Festival

America is full of contradictions: it is the ‘land of the free’, but its civil liberties, as we know from Guantanamo Bay, are laughably insecure. New York is billed as ‘the city that never sleeps’, but in the last few years a war on nightlife has led to the closure of tens of the city’s nightclubs and bars.

Clubbers are vilified by the media, and in 2002 the Senate tried to pass the infamous Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (or R.A.V.E. Act), which if it had become law, made landowners responsible for their patrons drug use.

But now Chicago’s local authorities have given the thumbs up to the city’s first ever house music festival. Illinois’ Department of Economic Development and the Bureau of Tourism are supporting Move!, a two-day international house music festival which takes place for the first time this year on 22nd and 23rd July.

Move! will feature some of the world’s most famous house music DJs such as Danny Tenaglia, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales and Steve Hurley as well as celebrate the city’s long and fruitful history with the genre. Unbelievably this is the first time that the city has organised a house music event of this kind.

For more information and full line up on al stages: Move!