Cicada 2024 Chicago. This iconic cicada cacophony can be heard most summers in illinois, but 2024 is a particularly special year for these critters. 2024 is a big year for periodical cicadas in illinois, where broods xiii and xix will be emerging throughout much of the state at the same time.

Now the great dual periodical cicada emergence of 2024 — an event of a magnitude not seen since 1803 — has burst from below to join the earlier shows in the. Illinois will soon be cicada central when 2 broods converge on state in historic emergence.