“2019 Fall Fest Opens at Lincoln Park Zoo on September 27th,” by S.M. O’Connor

The 5^th Annual Fall Fest opens at Lincoln Park Zoo on Friday, September 27, 2019. This is a free, family-friendly festival in the heart of the Chicago Park District’s Lincoln Park on the North Side of Chicago. In addition to the free events, including singalong concerts with Mary Macaroni and the Impasatas and autumnal animal enrichment activities, Fall Fest features ticketed experiences: a corn maze; an obstacle course with a twelve-foot slide; a sixty-five-foot Ferris wheel; a corn “pool” to swim in; bounce houses; professional pumpkin carvers; and educational activities.

“Lincoln Park Zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature,” stated Events Director Josh Rupp. “At Fall Fest, guests can enjoy the changing of the seasons in their urban backyard. It’s a celebration not to be missed!”

Pumpkins will be available to purchase throughout October at pumpkin patches located in front of the Gift Shop, Lionel Train Adventure, and on the Park Place Terrace. Pumpkins will vary in price depending on size.

Fall Fest is free and open to the public from Friday, September 27, 2019 through Sunday, September 29, 2019; Friday, October 4, 2019 through Sunday, October 6, 2019; Friday, October 11, 2019 through Monday, October 14, 2019; Friday, October 18, 2019 through Sunday, October 20, 2019; and Friday, October 25, 2019 through Sunday, October 27, 2019. Monday, October 14, 2019 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Lincoln Park Zoo. In the rest of Illinois and most of the U.S.A., it is Columbus Day. The events will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tickets are required for attractions and are available individually for $3 each or in bulk packages of ten for $27 or twenty for $51. All zoo buildings will remain open with regular hours during this time and all daily programming will continue, as well.

FIFTH ANNUAL FALL FEST DATES

Month	Dates
September	27^th through 29^th
October	4^th through 6^th
October	11^th through 14^th
October	18^th through 20^th
October	25^th through 27^th

Additional Events

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Auxiliary Board will host the 33^rd Annual Spooky Zoo on Saturday, October 26, 2019. This free event allows children to celebrate Halloween in a safe and family-friendly environment. It will include an animal education zone; arts and crafts; and, obviously, trick-or-treating. Tickets for Fall Fest rides will remain available for purchase during Spooky Zoo.

Adults Night Out: The Great Pumpkin Glow will be on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. This is an event for teenagers and adults eighteen-years-of-age-and-older. This is a chance for parents, grandparents, older siblings, and other adults to enjoy the zoo grounds covered in pumpkins and unique animal chats without children running around. Adults (at least twenty-one-years-of-age) can do so with a wine, beer, or spirit in hand. Adults Night Out: The Great Pumpkin Glow includes The Great Pumpkin Glow jack-o-lantern trail in the Children’s Zoo, the Corn Maze on the South Lawn, educational entertainment, special animal enrichment, and complimentary rides on the AT&T Endangered Species Carousel until 9:45 p.m. In addition to the cash bars, one can also also part with one’s money by purchasing pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch and souvenirs at the Wild Things! Gift Shop. Tickets are available in advance for $15 ($12 for Lincoln Park Zoo Members) or $20 at the door, if tickets remain available. One can purchase tickets through Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adults-night-out-the-great-pumpkin-glow-tickets-56050024131?aff=erellivmlt. Fat Tire by New Belgium Brewing is the sponsor.

Adam Selzer, host of Mysterious Chicago Tours, will lead walkabouts that dig into Lincoln Park’s cemetery roots and locations that are alleged to be haunted. Mr. Selzer is author of Ghosts of Chicago, Mysterious Chicago, and H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil. He has appeared on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. Haunted History Tours at Lincoln Park Zoo will take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout October.

HAUNTED HISTORY TOURS AT LINCOLN PARK DATES

Week of October	Dates
First Week of October	Tuesday the 1^st Wednesday the 2^nd
Second Week of October	Tuesday the 8^th Wednesday the 9^th
Third Week of October	Tuesday the 15^th Wednesday the 16^th
Fourth Week of October	Tuesday the 22^nd Wednesday the 23^rd
Fifth Week of October	Tuesday the 29^th Wednesday the 30^th

Haunted History Tours at Lincoln Park are for adults and teenagers sixteen-and-over. Tours begin at the Lincoln Park Zoo’s Café Brauer. The address of Café Brauer is 2021 North Stockton Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614.

The tours are scheduled to last from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Expect a tour to last from seventy-five minutes to ninety minutes.

Tickets are $35 (10% off for Lincoln Park Zoo Members). Click here to purchase tickets via Eventbrite.

20161014_JF_FallFest-7_0 — Figure 1 Credit: Julia Fuller, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: This is the Pumpkin Patch at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fall Fest as seen on October 14, 2016.

20161014_JF_FallFest-16 — Figure 2 Credit: Julia Fuller, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: This is pumpkin-carving by a professional at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fall Fest as seen on October 14, 2016.

20161014_JF_FallFest-51 — Figure 3 Credit: Julia Fuller, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: This is the corn maze at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fall Fest as seen on October 14, 2016.

20161014_JF_FallFest-58 — Figure 4 Credit: Julia Fuller, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: This is the corn pool at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fall Fest as seen on October 14, 2016.

20161014_JF_FallFest-66_0 — Figure 5 Credit: Julia Fuller, Lincoln Park Zoo Caption: This is the Ferris Wheel at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Fall Fest as seen on October 14, 2016. George W. Ferris (1859-1896) built the world’s first Ferris Wheel in the middle of the Midway Plaisance for Chicago’s first World’s Fair, the ***World’s Columbian Exposition*** (1893).

Founded in 1868, Lincoln Park Zoo celebrated the 150^th anniversary of its foundation last year. A private, non-profit organization, the Lincoln Park Zoological Society, manages the zoo on land owned by the Chicago Park District. It is open 365 days a year. For more information about events at the zoo, click here.

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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.