Cicada 2024 Chicago 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. Now that the solar eclipse in illinois is behind us, it's time to look forward to the next rare phenomenon of 2024:
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. Illinois will soon be cicada central when 2 broods converge on state in historic emergence.