Best bets: Vets Day at Cantigny, '85 Bears, Bob Saget
Veteran's Day
Reflect on the members of the armed forces who sacrificed their lives in service to the United States of America by visiting the Veterans Luminary Tribute this Thursday at the Cantigny Park and First Division Museum, 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton. There's also a “Veterans' Voices” presentation featuring readings from soldiers' letters to loved ones back home. Free admission. (630) 668-5161 or cantigny.org. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11; “Veterans' Voices” at 7:30 p.m.
Objects d'art
The 17th SOFA Chicago show of for-sale luxury art and home furnishings teams up this year with The Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art for a special art-filled weekend at Navy Pier's Festival Hall, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. Tickets cost $15 or $25 for a three-day pass. (800) 563-7632 or sofaexpo.com. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5 and 6, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7
Roasting Bears
Get ready for a comic roast when Coach Mike Ditka, Willie Gault, Jim McMahon, Dan Hampton, Gary Fencik and other members of the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl Championship Team gather again to reminisce and rib each other as part of the Allstate Glory Days '85 Bears Reunion tonight at the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place, 2301 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. $49-$199. (800) 745-3000 or glorydayschicago.com. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5
Modern Latin
Eduardo Vilaro, former artistic director of Chicago's Luna Negra Dance Theater, returns to town tonight as the new artistic director of New York's Ballet Hispanico, which performs four pieces (including two new works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Maray Gutierrez) at Millennium Park's Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago. $35-$60. (312) 334-7777 or harristheaterchicago.com. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5
Roman cello
Cellist Joshua Roman is the guest soloist with the New Philharmonic concert tonight featuring Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 and other music by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak at College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. $26-$36. (630) 942-4000 or atthemac.org. 8 p.m. Friday, Nov 5
Go, baby, go!
Attend child safety seminars, enter your child in a baby derby race or just catch up on the latest products this weekend at the It's a Baby & Family Expo at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont. $12; grandparents and kids younger than 12 admitted free. (847) 692-2222 or itsababyexpo.com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7
Big band show
Get nostalgic or develop a newfound love for Big Band music of the 1940s by catching the revue “In the Mood” this weekend at two locations: the Coronado Theatre, 314 N. Main St., Rockford. $34.50-$39.50. (815) 968-5222. Also at College of Lake County's Lumber Center for the Performing Arts, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake. $30-$38; $26-$36 seniors. (847) 543-2300 or jlcenter.clcillinois.edu. 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, in Rockford, 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, in Grayslake
Saget says ...
Don't let comedian Bob Saget's squeaky clean image on the hit sitcom “Full House” fool you. Find out why Saget's stand-up humor is adults-only when he performs Saturday at the Paramount Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. $39.50. (630) 896-6666 or paramountaurora.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6
Silly science
Share with kids how quirky science can be by taking them to the interactive family comedy show “Doktor Kaboom” this Sunday at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. $35; $25 for kids ages 12 and younger; $45 VIP packages. (847) 577-2121 or metrpolisarts.com. 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7