Museums
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Elmhurst’s Art in Wilder Park returns for 28th yearApr 30, 2025 5:00 pm - Elmhurst Art Museum is hosting its 28th annual art fair with 130 vendors and family activities.
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Elmhurst Art Museum previews ‘Crossings’ exhibition at Art in Wilder Park May 3-4Apr 29, 2025 11:05 pm - "Crossings" is a solo exhibition by the acclaimed Chicago artist that will be on display at the Elmhurst Art Museum alongside Art in Wilder Park, a juried festival featuring over 130 exhibitors.
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Best Bets: Vintage Blonde Chicago’s record release, ESO performs ‘The Planets,’ artists gather in Elmhurst’s Wilder ParkApr 29, 2025 5:09 pm - This week, suburban rockers Vintage Blonde Chicago releases its debut record with a Sunday release show at Schuba’s, art returns to Elmhurst’s Wilder Park, and the ESO concludes its season with “The Planets.”
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Best Bets: Laugh it up with Lisa Ann Walter at Zanies RosemontApr 22, 2025 9:10 am - “Abbott Elementary” actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter headlines Zanies Rosemont, comedian/filmmaker/author W. Kamau Bell headlines The Den Theatre and Long Grove welcomes beer fans to its Craft Beer Fest Saturday.
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Remembering Route 66 at the Glen Ellyn History Center on May 31Apr 21, 2025 3:55 pm - The Glen Ellyn Historical Society welcomes historian and actress Leslie Goddard as she explores the history of Route 66, the iconic road that linked Chicago to Los Angeles from 1926 until its decommissioning in the mid-1980s.
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Addison Center for the Arts to host ‘Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series’Apr 17, 2025 12:22 pm - Elementary and high school students display their artworks at the Addison Center for the Arts' "Creative Futures" show starting April 24.
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Lisle Heritage Society to host May 4 program on ‘Our Lady of the World’s Fair’Apr 14, 2025 9:53 pm - Lisle Heritage Society is hosting a talk on efforts by Robert Moses and Cardinal Spellman to display Michelangelo's Pietà at the 1964 World's Fair despite skepticism and challenges.
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Animatronic mayor to tell Rosemont’s story in new history museumApr 14, 2025 7:14 pm - Rosemont's history museum, set to open in 2026, will likely feature an animatronic likeness of late Mayor Donald E. Stephens, chronicling the town’s transformation from swamps to a business and entertainment hub.
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Historical society offers tour of train museum, Wright farmhouseApr 14, 2025 1:17 pm - Join the Mount Prospect Historical Society on Saturday, May 3, for a day-long bus trip including the Illinois Railway Museum in Union and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire.
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Uncovering the secrets of Geneva’s Fabyan Estate … and its leaky pondApr 11, 2025 5:00 am - The Fabyan Estate in Geneva faces environmental and preservation challenges, including a leaky pond in the Japanese Garden and deteriorating artifacts in the Fabyan Villa Museum.
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