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Kline Creek celebrates July 4th 1890s way

Visitors can enjoy Independence Day the 1890s way at "The Glorious Fourth" from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at Kline Creek Farm, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's living history farm at 1N600 County Farm Road in West Chicago.

Visitors of all ages are invited to experience the excitement by playing hoops and graces and other 1890s outdoor games, touring the historic farmhouse, joining a casual game of 1887 baseball, making patriotic crafts, churning ice cream for an ice cream social, and watching celebratory model hot-air balloon launches.

At 6 p.m., costumed interpreters will present a Fourth of July ceremony featuring patriotic songs and a reading of the Declaration of Independence, followed by an ice cream social at 7 p.m.

Admission to "The Glorious Fourth" is free. For details, call (630) 876-5900.

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