NBC Chicago will offer a live stream of the event beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday right here.
Chicago's fiery roots will be on full display this weekend.
The Great Chicago Fire Festival is set to makes its debut Saturday featuring a neighborhood bazaar, vendors, food and “a fire spectacle on the main branch of the Chicago River.”
The fest begins at 3 p.m. Saturday with a street market and various performances by local groups.
Communty leaders will honor first responders and their families and at 8 p.m. the “grand spectacle” begins.
NBC's “Chicago Fire” stars Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney will lower a fire cauldron from the Michigan Avenue Bridge and After School Matters students will lower 14 others.
The S.S. O’Leary and three mini steamships will ignite floating house sculptures on the river and as the fire is extinguished the burned homes will reveal a “symbolic, interior core.”
There will also be a fireworks display following the event.
“The Great Chicago Fire Festival will be truly unique, an event worthy of our world-class city,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.
The mayor said the fest looks to the Chicago Cultural Plan's goals of creating a large-scale festival that highlights city heritage and attracts global attention.
"Additionally, it will allow all Chicagoans and all of our guests to enjoy the wonderful Chicago River, one of the city’s greatest natural assets,” he said.
