{"id":31090,"date":"2018-06-25T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:45:36","slug":"chicago-third-best-city-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/chicago-third-best-city-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Is the Third Best City in America for Fourth of July Celebrations, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to cue up the fireworks, you guys \u2013 &#8217;cause a\u00a0new report from WalletHub has declared Chicago the third\u00a0best city in the country for celebrating the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/d2e70e9yced57e.cloudfront.net\/wallethub\/embed\/4651\/geochart-july4.html\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 556px; font-size: 12px; color: #888888; text-align: center;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-4th-of-july-celebrations\/4651\/\">WalletHub<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In a study that compared 19 key, star-spangled metrics across 100 of America&#8217;s largest metropolitan areas, WalletHub has found that good ole&#8217; Chicago, Illinois is among the top metros for celebrating Independence\u00a0Day throughout the country. And yes, that <em>does<\/em> include Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Among those factors considered in WalletHub&#8217;s ranking was the average price of beer, the average duration of fireworks displays, the amount of DUIs per capita (don&#8217;t drink and drive, folks) and the average July weather forecast\u00a0for each metro.<\/p>\n<p>And though our dear hometown city came in just a squeak behind other patriotic giants like NYC and LA, Chicago <em>did<\/em> rank at number 2 when it comes to overall Fourth of July activities and attractions, so that&#8217;s gotta count for something.<\/p>\n<p>The other cities rounding out WalletHub&#8217;s top ten included:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>New York City, NY<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, CA<\/li>\n<li>Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>Denver, CO<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, WA<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta, GA<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee, WI<\/li>\n<li>San Diego, CA<\/li>\n<li>Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo, NY<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, you can check out the full WalletHub study for yourself, <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-4th-of-july-celebrations\/4651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Find what really matters in Chicago with the UrbanMatter app!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">To download or see reviews from our users, head\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/app\/\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to cue up the fireworks, you guys \u2013 &#8217;cause a\u00a0new report from WalletHub has declared Chicago the third\u00a0best city in the country for celebrating the Fourth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2008,"featured_media":31091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1554],"tags":[159,5542,498,1284],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category-news","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-celebrations","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-wallethub"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chicago Is the Third Best City in America for Fourth of July Celebrations, Study Finds | UrbanMatter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I mean, are we surprised? 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