The festivals are held in the most spacious of the seventeen wonderful public gardens and playgrounds established of late throughout the city.

Lasting all day, this annual carnival of play is shared by school children, working girls and boys, and young men and women.

In the morning the children play and perform their costume dances.

In the afternoon the fields are given up to athletic sports of older children, and in the evening young men and women, of all nationalities, many wearing their old-world peasant dresses, revive the plays and the dances of their native lands.

Tens of thousands view the beautiful spectacle, which each year excites more interest and assumes an added importance in the civic life of Chicago.
Each of the large parks in Chicago's system is provided with a municipal dance hall, spacious buildings with perfect floors, good light, and ventilation.