The countdown to 2025 is nearly over, and with it comes some epic Chicago fireworks exhibits.
Two iconic fireworks exhibits will happen to ring in 2025 in Chicago, with one set to start lengthy earlier than the clock strikes midnight.
Here is what to learn about every, what time they begin and how one can watch stay in individual, or from house.
Navy Pier Fireworks
This 12 months’s expanded present is ready to happen proper at midnight at Navy Pier.
The present, now set to final quarter-hour, will “forged a glow throughout the lakefront that may be loved from indoor and out of doors vantage factors all alongside the mile-long Pier” — all freed from cost, in response to Navy Pier.
Riverwalk Fireworks
Making its return this 12 months, the Riverwalk occasion programming will start at 10 p.m. The night culminates with an imposing fireworks show from six bridges alongside the Chicago River starting at midnight.
In response to Chicago’s Workplace of Emergency Administration and Communications, the present can finest be seen alongside the Chicago River from Higher Wacker Drive and McClurg Court docket to Franklin Road.
From 11:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., bridge closures can be in place at Franklin Road, LaSalle Road, Clark Road, Dearborn Road, State Road and Columbus Drive. Bridge sidewalks can be closed to pedestrians from 4:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
The Riverwalk can be closed at 11 p.m. for the occasion, with only a small part from Wells Road to Orleans Road open till 12:15 a.m., in response to OEMC.
Moreover, the next avenue closures can be in impact:
- Franklin/Orleans from Lake Road to Wacker Drive (midday to 4 a.m. on January 1)
- The Franklin Road Bridge over the Chicago River (9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on January 1)
- Wacker Drive from Lake Road to Wells Road (9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on January 1)
- Observe that further streets and bridges might shut because the countdown to midnight attracts nearer.
The way to watch the fireworks stay
In case you’re not heading to look at the shows in individual, you may nonetheless be capable to ring in 2025 witnessing the glowing show stay.
NBC Chicago will supply digital camera feeds of every occasion as they occur.
Watch stay within the gamers under:
Navy Pier
Riverwalk
