Regional burns & playas in Illinois

Chicago's all-volunteer costumed shopping cart race and food drive, a much-loved winter tradition in the local burner scene. Teams build wild carts and raise…

A volunteer-run, free, all-ages fire performance and drum gathering that has lit up Chicago parks and beaches on summer evenings for more than twenty years.…

A wooded campground near Ottawa, about an hour and a half from Chicago, that hosts B.U.R.N. Burn, the Chicago community's regional campout. It has showers and…

Chicago's Burners Without Borders chapter, running a community free store, animal rescue help and arts education for newcomer students. It also offers civic…

Chicagoland's volunteer-run burner nonprofit. It runs B.U.R.N. Burn, the city's decompression, newbie nights and meet-and-greets, and funds community art…