“When is the 18th Annual Wines in the Wild Fundraiser at Brookfield Zoo?” by S.M. O’Connor

The Women’s Board of the Chicago Zoological Society will hold the 18^th Annual Wines in the Wild fundraiser on Saturday, September 21, 2019 at the Discovery Center at Brookfield Zoo from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The Private Tasting is from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and the Main Event is from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Guests will sample a variety of wines and liquors from Prestige Countryside Liquors. The Brookfield Zoo’s culinary staff will be preparing hors d’oeuvres to be served with the wines. There will be a raffle and silent auction. Guests can place a bid throughout the Main Event. Guests who discover wines they really like can purchase them and 10% of the proceeds will go to the Brookfield Zoo to support conservation programs, educational programs, and Women’s Board scholarships.

An individual ticket is $120. This entitles one to enter the Main Event at 7:30 p.m. with access to wine tastings, food, a raffle, and a silent auction.

For $275, one can get a single ticket that entitles one to enter the Private Tasting that begins at 6:00 p.m. Then, at 7:30, one will enter the Main Event, where one will access to wine tastings, food, a raffle, and a silent auction.

A set of two tickets are $500. This gives both people access to the Private Tasting that will begin at six o’clock and the Main Event that will begin at seven thirty.

For $1,200, one will get a set of six tickets. This covers access to both the Private Tasting at six o’clock and the Main Event at seven thirty.

Figure 1 Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: This picture was taken October 27, 2018.

Figure 2 Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: This picture was taken October 28, 2017.

The Chicago Zoological Society is a private, non-profit organization that operates Brookfield Zoo on land owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums.

Click here to purchase tickets or make donations for between $100 and $5,000 (or any other sum). Use the South Gate Main Entrance. The address is 3300 Golf Road, Brookfield, Illinois 60513.

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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.