“When is the Summertime Adults-Only Event at Lincoln Park Zoo?” by S.M. O’Connor

The Lincoln Park Zoo will host the event “Adults Night Out: Summer Adventure” tonight (Thursday, August 8, 2019) from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. New Belgium Fat Tire is the sponsor.

There will also be animal chats, educational entertainment, and cash bars. Stop by Foreman Pavilion starting at 8:35 p.m. to hear four storytellers relate “dramatic, embarrassing, and wonderous [sic] stories of encounters with urban wildlife.” The Story Slam storytellers will be Liam Heneghan, Ecologist and Professor at DePaul University; Akilah Martin, Soil Scientist, Philosopher, and Associate Dean at DePaul University; Dan Protess, Writer and Producer at W.T.T.W.’s Urban Nature; and Kim Ruffin, Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and Professor at Roosevelt University.

Tickets are $15 if one buys them in advance online. Click here to purchase tickets from Eventbrite or here to purchase tickets from Facebook. One must print out one’s ticket as tickets will be scanned at the door.

To receive their 20% discount, Lincoln Park Zoo Members should click on “Enter Promotional Code,” and enter the first three digits of their Member Identification Numbers. If one has a group of ten or more people, the group can also save 20% by using “GROUP” as the promotional code.

If any tickets remain available, they will be sold on-site for $20. However, tickets often sell out, so there may not be any available at the door.

Tickets are non-refundable. However, they are transferrable. The event will go on rain or shine.

One must be at least eighteen-years-old to participate in this event. Outside food and beverages are prohibited, as are dogs. Lincoln Park Zoo is accessible by public transportation. Guests who want to drive should park in the lot on Cannon Drive.

Adult Night at Lincoln Park Zoo — Figure 1 Credit: Todd Rosenberg, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: “Adults Night Out: Summer Adventure” is a chance for parents (and other adults) to see Lincoln Park Zoo without tykes.

Use the Lincoln Park Zoo entrance at 2150 North Cannon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60614. Lincoln Park Zoo is roughly at the center of the Chicago Park District’s Lincoln Park. The address of Lincoln Park Zoo is 2001 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60614. The phone number is (312) 742-2000.

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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.