“When is the 2019 ZooBrew at Brookfield Zoo?” by S.M. O’Connor

The 8^th Annual ZooBrew at Brookfield Zoo will take place on Saturday, August 24, 2019. For the first time, customers can choose between three sessions. The Full Session is from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The V.I.P. Session is from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A half Session is from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Blue Moon is the sponsor of ZooBrew. The participating breweries are Blue Moon (of course), Brickstone Brewery, Ballast Point, Finch Beer Company, Firestone Walker, Hacker Pschorr, Heineken, Kinslahger Brewing Company, Leinekugel’s, Mike’s Hard Lemonade/White Claw, MillerCoors, New Belgium, Noon Whistle, Pampelonne, Revolution Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Tenth and Blake, and 2 Fools Cider.

A $55 Full Session Ticket covers parking; all-day admission to the Brookfield Zoo (9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.); admission to the ZooBrew tent (3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. with the last call at 7:00 p.m.); three-ounce samplings from over eighty beers; and a commemorative tasting glass. The band Hello Weekend will be performing live music. Please note that designated drivers will not be allowed to sample beer but his or her ticket does cover unlimited soft drinks. A Full Session Designated Driver Ticket costs $35.

A $90 V.I.P. Session Ticket covers parking; all-day admission to the Brookfield Zoo (9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.); exclusive access to the V.I.P. Garden (2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. with the last call at 7:00 p.m.); early V.I.P. admission to the ZooBrew tent (at 2:30 p.m.) and unlimited access thereafter until 7:30 p.m.; exclusive samplings of select specialty brews in the V.I.P. Garden; food in the V.I.P. Garden; visit with Animal Ambassadors in the V.I.P. Garden; three-ounce samplings from over eighty beers; and a commemorative tasting glass. Please note that designated drivers will not be allowed to sample beer but his or her ticket does cover unlimited soft drinks. A V.I.P. Session Designated Driver Ticket costs $50.

A $35 Half Session Ticket covers parking; all-day admission to the Brookfield Zoo (9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.); admission to the ZooBrew tent (12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. with the last call at 1:45 p.m.); three-ounce samplings from over eighty beers; and a commemorative tasting glass. Please note that designated drivers will not be allowed to sample beer but his or her ticket does cover unlimited soft drinks. A Half Session Designated Driver Ticket costs $25.

While the zoo is open until 6:00 p.m., participants can walk out into the larger zoo, but after 6:00 one must remain in the event area on the East Mall until they leave for the night. All participants must be adults twenty-one-years-of-age or over and have valid identification cars to prove it. Children will not be allowed in the ZooBrew tent or larger event area and will not be allowed to stay in the zoo after 6:00.

Outside food can be brought into the zoo. However, outside alcohol cannot be brought into the zoo, much less the ZooBrew tent.

Credit: Chicago Zological Society Caption: This video promoting ZooBrew 2018 gives one an idea of what one will see at a ZooBrew event.

Click here to purchase tickets from Eventbrite. One need not bring a printed ticket, as the ticket can be scanned from a smartphone or other mobile device. Bringing a printed ticket is not a bad idea, though.

The Chicago Zoological Society operates the Brookfield Zoo on property that belongs to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. The North Gate Main Entrance address is 8400 West 31^st Street, Brookfield, Illinois 60513. The South gate Main Entrance address is 3300 Golf Road, Brookfield, Illinois 60513. The Hollywood (Zoo Stop) on Metra’s B.N.S.F. line is a few blocks to the south of the South Gate entrance. If you are using a ride share service for ZooBrew, use the South Gate Main Entrance for drop-off and pick-up. The Website is www.czs.org/Brookfield-ZOO/Home.

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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.