Photo: Four-day jazz festival wraps

7-Sep-10 – Clouds did not keep away the crowds on Sunday, the last day of the 32nd annual Chicago Jazz Festival. This year, music was heard from three locations – Millennium Park, Chicago Cultural Center, and Grant Park. At the Petrillo Music Shell (above), Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls perform against a Chicago skyline.

An estimated 200,000 people attended the four-day event.

The first Chicago Jazz Festival was in 1974 to honor composer/bandleader Duke Ellington, who had died a few weeks earlier. The annual event is coordinated by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and sponsored for a second year by CareFusion, a maker of hi-tech medical devices.

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