Chicago Music Scenes: Histories, People, and Institutions engages individuals from academic and professional fields in discussion about the Chicago music scene. The symposium will take place at Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, to coincide with the annual AMS meeting in downtown Chicago and with DePaul’s Chicago Quarter programming for first year undergraduate students. The symposium is sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group of AMS. The symposium will be open to the public, including DePaul students, faculty, and staff, community members, and AMS conference attendees, and we have committed to streaming the symposium to allow remote attendance. The themes of the plenary sessions, Chicago Music Histories, Space and Place, Media and Listening, and Public Programming, purposefully transcend genre, yet offer an opportunity to engage with significant historical trajectories, institutions, issues, people, and communities that shape the music scene. Our goal is to create conversations around key issues that individuals and institutions face in Chicago’s music scenes. The outcome of this event will be a co-edited volume, with Andrew Mall and Michael Allemana, Chicago’s Music Scenes.