Downers Grove Entertainment
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Wine tastings at suburban clubs becoming popular affairsNov 05, 2025 10:41 am - Like several other private suburban clubs, Kemper Lakes Golf Club hosts wine tastings throughout the year. The Kildeer club’s marquee event, featuring more than 30 vendors, takes place this weekend and is expected to attract 700 wine enthusiasts.
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Dining Out: New happy hour at Capital Grille, bourbon dinner, music bingo and moreNov 04, 2025 4:31 pm - The Capital Grille locations have unveiled a new weekday happy hour(s) with food and drink specials. Niche in Geneva will hold a bourbon dinner next week featuring sought-after pours from the Buffalo Trace distillery, and we’ve also got music bingo in Itasca and new Chef Selects offerings at Old Town Pour House and City Works Eatery and Pour House.
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Restaurants honor service members with special offers for Veterans DayNov 04, 2025 3:46 pm - Restaurants around the suburbs have special offers for veterans and active-duty military as they honor Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
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Celebrate National STEM Day at DuPage Children’s MuseumNov 04, 2025 12:39 pm - On Saturday, Nov. 8, DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville is hosting STEM Day with hands-on experiments, building, and playful invention making STEM — and STEAM — fun for the whole family.
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‘Great’ model train show lives up to its name at DuPage fairgroundsNov 02, 2025 4:11 pm - Billed as the largest monthly event of its kind in the world, the Great Midwest Train Show lived up to its name Sunday at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton.
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Nightmare on Williams Street: Suburbanite raises goosebumps on his home turfOct 30, 2025 11:22 am - “We just love Halloween.” That’s what James Schiffer says of his family’s commitment to assembling a monster display of spooky magic in the front yard of their Downers Grove home.
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New Philharmonic presents candlelit performance of music by Tchaikovsky and ProkofievOct 29, 2025 5:31 pm - Under the baton of Maestro Kirk Muspratt, New Philharmonic will present Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet” (Overture-Fantasy) and Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” on Nov. 1-2.
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Embracing spooky season: La Grange’s Just Escape Room adds new ‘haunted’ experience ahead of HalloweenOct 29, 2025 8:42 am - One of many escape rooms in the area, Just Escape Room in La Grange recently opened a new experience called Haunted Doll Shop just in time for Halloween.
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American Legion Post 43 donates to local school marching bandsOct 28, 2025 8:42 pm - The American Legion Post 43 Naperville has donated $500 to each of the six Naperville-area high school marching bands.
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Dining out: National Sandwich Day, Thanksgiving pizza, spooky cocktails and moreOct 28, 2025 4:51 pm - National Sandwich Day is Monday, plus Frato’s Thanksgiving turkey pizza returns and Shaw’s in Schaumburg is celebrating 25 years with 25 days of specials in November.