Overview
- Fireworks launched at midnight from bridges between Orleans and Columbus along the Chicago River, closing the celebration’s main sequence.
- The evening program featured live performances and ART on THE MART projections before the countdown.
- Chance the Rapper headlined a segment carried on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which featured the show’s first Central Time Zone countdown.
- River traffic was shut from Franklin to Columbus from 11:30 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., with Dearborn, Clark, LaSalle, Wabash and Columbus bridges closed starting at 11:30 p.m.
- NBC Chicago streamed the river display live, while FOX 32 aired local coverage from TAO Chicago, and CTA trains and buses were free from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.