“What is the 2019 ‘Jazzin’ at the Shedd’ Concert Schedule at the Shedd Aquarium?” by S.M. O’Connor

The John G. Shedd Aquarium introduced Jazzin’ at the Shedd nighttime music, food, and cocktails on Wednesdays last year and is bringing it back this year. Over the summer of 2019, extended hours (from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.) will be on Wednesdays from June 19^th through August 28^th.[1]

Tickets are $24.95 ($19.95 for Chicago residents) or free for Members. To purchase tickets, click here, indicate whether or not you are a Member, select a date, and choose Jazzin’ at the Shedd.

There will be a Members-only Jazzin’ at the Shedd event on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Rio Bamba will perform.

There will also be a Jazzin’ at the Shedd event that is free for Illinois residents on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. This event will be called “Free IL Resident Jazzin’.” For non-residents, tickets will be $24.95. To reserve tickets for this event, click here.

2019 JAZZIN’ AT THE SHEDD DATES

Wednesdays	June 19^th and 26^th
Wednesdays	July 3^rd, 10^th, 17^th, 24^th, and 31^st
Wednesdays	August 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th

Live jazz music will be played by three jazz ensembles every week. Guests will meet sea otters and sea stars.

2019 JAZZIN’ AT THE SHEDD BAND LINEUP (July 19^th through August 28^th)

Wednesday	June 19^th	· Detour JazFunk · Bill Boris Duo
Wednesday	June 26^th	· Rio Bamba · Ken Davis Project · Petra van Nuis
Wednesday	July 3^rd	· Michele Thomas · Shawn Salmon Duo
Wednesday	July 10^th	· Detour JazFunk · Bob Davis Trio · Morgan Purtle and Aaron Day
Wednesday	July 17^th	· Brent Kimbrough and Company · Ken Davis Project · Morgan Purtle and Aaron Day
Wednesday	July 24^th	· Mytyme Jazz Zsoul Funk · Jenna Przybysz Trio
Wednesday	July 31^st	· Mario Abney · Soul Message Band
Wednesday	August 7^th	· Detour JazFunk · Michele Thomas · Petra van Nuis
Wednesday	August 14^th	· Ava Logan Jazz Ensemble · Phil Seed Trio · Bill Boris Duo
Wednesday	August 21^st	· Rio Bamba · Phil Seed Trio
Wednesday	August 28^th	· Detour JazFunk · Gian Gibson Ensemble · Shawn Salmon Duo

The Shedd Aquarium has over 32,000 living animals representing 1,500 species on site. The address is 1200 South lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605. The phone number is (312) 939-2438. The Website is https://www.sheddaquarium.org/.

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[1] This is an hour longer than last year, when Jazzin’ at the Shedd was from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesdays while Shedd After Hours: Caribbean Flavors and Flairs was from 9:00 to 5:00 on Mondays and Shedd After Hours: House Party was from 9:00 to 5:00 on Thursdays.

The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.