ALBANY PARK — In a neighborhood where more than 70 different languages are spoken, a multicultural World Fest celebrating life on four continents is a perfect fit.
Organizers estimate close to 10,000 people attended the two-day festival's first day Saturday, which included a standalone carnival fair at Roosevelt High School. The festival resumes Sunday beginnning with a noontime mass by New Life Community Church. Acclaimed world music outfit Funkadesi will close out the festival at 7:30 p.m.
There was street dancing throughout Saturday, opening with a Zumba dance class at noon. Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta closed out Saturday evening at 10 p.m. with Latin American cumbia.
Organizers had blocked off Kimball Avenue at Lawrence to Wilson street with the No. 82 Kimball bus rerouted along Montrose, Kedzie, and Lawrence avenues before it can resume its usual north- or southbound route.
Festival grounds took up Kimball Avenue along the Brown Line terminal and the high school's open field and a small shopping plaza, putting the main stage right in the middle of busy Kimball and Lawrence Avenues. Streets are closed until Monday at 3 a.m., when normal traffic resumes.
[Video by DNAinfo/Yvonne Hortillo]
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