Glen Ellyn Entertainment
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Best Bets: Sugary fun with the Hershey Super Sweet AdventureMar 18, 2025 1:47 pm - The interactive Hershey Super Sweet Adventure returns to Water Tower Place in Chicago, “Dancing With the Celts” tours to the Woodstock Opera House, and Salt Creek Ballet presents “The Sleeping Beauty” in Glen Ellyn.
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DuPage Community Concert Band to perform Irish tunes for St. Patrick’s DayMar 12, 2025 11:46 am - Enjoy an evening of Irish music by the DuPage Community Band on March 17. Flutist Morgan Hutchers and student conductor Ana Bazant will be featured.
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Glen Ellyn history program to recall Chicago icon Bertha Palmer March 22Mar 11, 2025 9:57 pm - On March 22, learn about Bertha Honore Palmer's impact on Chicago and beyond through her art patronage, ranching, and more.
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Author to recount thrilling tales of female spies in WWII France at March 8 programMar 04, 2025 10:05 pm - Learn about the lives of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and Nancy Wake, codename "The White Mouse," who outwitted the Gestapo while leading the French Resistance at the next Glen Ellyn Historical Society program.
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Shaken, not stirred: Espresso martinis take center stage during bartender competitionFeb 20, 2025 9:15 am - Bartenders from the city and suburbs competed Monday in Oak Brook to make four espresso martinis as fast as possible and as cleanly as possible, hoping to land a spot in the “Good, Clean Fun” competition finals with a chance to win a trip to Sweden.
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Dining out: National Margarita Day and suburban restaurant weeksFeb 18, 2025 3:06 pm - The snow outside may suggest otherwise, but Saturday is National Margarita Day and we’ve got specials. There are also restaurant weeks starting in Glen Ellyn and Woodridge.
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Best Bets: Barricade Boys and YAMATO drummers on stage at the MACFeb 17, 2025 6:25 pm - The MAC welcomes The Barricade Boys and YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan, the stars of “Queer Eye” share backstage tales at the Chicago Theatre and singer-actress Alexis J. Roston channels jazz great Ella Fitzgerald at the Metropolis.
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College of DuPage Asia Symposium showcases Japanese culture through lectures, performancesFeb 11, 2025 5:30 pm - The College of DuPage hosts a free, public Asia Symposium called "Pop Wave: Japan" featuring academic lectures, cultural performances, film screenings, and art exhibitions.
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Best Bets: Cirque du Soleil’s ‘OVO’ at the NOW Arena, Second City at the MACFeb 11, 2025 11:57 am - Cirque du Soleil’s family-friendly, insect-themed spectacle “OVO” takes over NOW Arena for six shows, Second City brings its “best of” revue to the McAninch Arts Center, and Elmhurst University hosts its 58th jazz festival.
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Property-line dispute sparks neighbors’ border war in BTE’s first-rate ‘Native Gardens’Feb 10, 2025 2:08 pm - Was the speaker in the Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” right? Do good fences make good neighbors? Check out Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk, well-acted revival of “Native Gardens” and find out.