Things to do

Posted November 17, 2007 10:00 pm

Antiques and crafts

• The Wheaton Antique Market is at the DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 W. Manchester Road, Wheaton, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Admission is $5; $20 for 6 a.m. entrance. Call (715) 526-9769.

Housewalks

• The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust has tickets available online for its 2008 "Wright Plus" tours. Plans include an excursion to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in far southwest suburban Plano, exclusive dinners in Wright-designed homes, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Robie House and rare interior tours of private Oak Park residences designed by Wright and his contemporaries. Tickets start at $90 for nonmembers and are available at www.wrightplus.org. Call (708) 848-1976 for more information.

• Tickets are now on sale for the 20th annual Holiday Housewalk presented by the Mount Prospect Historical Society from 3:30 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 30. Six homes along blocks of Lonnquist Boulevard and one on South Main Street are featured. Early bird cost is $20, and tickets are available at a variety of Mount Prospect locations including Midwest Bank at 50 N. Main St.; Lions Park Rec Center, 411 S. Maple St.; the Dietrich Friedrichs House museum and others. Call (847) 392-9006 for more information.

Meeting

• The Citizens Action Project is holding a one-time "What Your Township Assessor Doesn't Want You to Know" public informational meeting at the Byron Colby Barn, Jones Point Road and Route 45 in Grayslake at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27. Visit www.citizensactionproject.org for more information.

-- Scott C. Morgan

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