“When is the Adults-Only ‘Lights & Lagers’ Event at Brookfield Zoo?” by S.M. O’Connor

Lights & Lagers at Brookfield Zoo will take place on Friday, December 6, 2019, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. This is chance for full adults (twenty-one years of age and older) to walk around the Brookfield Zoo grounds when they are illuminated by over 1,000,0000 L.E.D. lights for the 38^th annual Holiday Magic festival while sampling beers, listening to music a D.J. plays in the Holly Jolly Theater, and seeing Animal Ambassadors up close.

There will be a total of six tasting stations located throughout the zoo grounds. These will be Seven Seas Underwater Viewing, ITW Room at Bramsen Animal Ambassador Building, Great Bear Wilderness Underwater Viewing, Feathers & Scales, The Swamp, and the Holly Jolly Theater. These tasting stations will be staffed by representatives from breweries including Kinslahger Brewing Company, Finch Beer Co., Ballast Point Chicago, Rogue Ales, Leinenkugel’s, Blue Moon Brewing Co., Mike’s Hard Lemonade, New Belgium Brewing Company, The Boston Beer Company, Revolution Brewing, Brickstone Brewery Company, Noon Whistle Brewing. The beer selection, as of now, is Adams Street Brewery, Boston Beer, Brickstone, Constellation/Ballast Point, Finch Beer, Kinslahger Brewing, Mikes Hard Lemonade, MillerCoors, Motor Row Brewing, New Belgium, Noon Whistle, Revolution, Rogue Brewing, and Tangled Roots Brewing. In addition, three restaurants will be open: Café del Sol, BZ Red Hots, and the Swan Pavilion at Holly Jolly Theatre.

A ticket covers admission to the Lights & Lagers event, three-ounce samplings from participating breweries, and a commemorative light-up tasting cup. All ticketholders must be twenty-one or over. A photo identification card proving one’s age is a prerequisite for entry. All guests must enter through the North Gate parking lot. Registration is required. All sales are final. No exchanges or refunds will be made.

Lights & Lagers will take place regardless of weather conditions, come rain or snow. The weather forecast is currently for the temperatures range to be somewhere between 28°F and 36°F, so dress appropriately.

Tickets for participants (Lights & Lagers Admission) are $45 and tickets for designated drivers (Designated Driver Admission – Lights & Lager) are $35, plus fees. For Members, the Lights & Lagers Admission tickets are $35. For more information and to purchase tickets directly from the Chicago Zoological Society (C.Z.S.), go to https://www.czs.org/lightsandlagers. To purchase tickets via Facebook, click here. To purchase tickets via Eventbrite, click here.

Figure 1 Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: Zoo guests gather to enjoy Lights and Lagers at Brookfield Zoo on November 30, 2018.

Figure 2 Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: A server pours a beer into a commemorative glass at Lights and Lagers at Brookfield Zoo on November 30, 2018.

Figure 3 Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: A group of guests gather with festive lights and beer samples at Lights and Lagers at Brookfield Zoo on November 30, 2018.

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. The Brookfield Zoo met the American Humane Association’s rigorous standards for the care and welfare of animals to become the world’s first zoo to receive Humane Certified™ certification.

The Brookfield Zoo is open every day of the year. It is located between the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) and is also accessible via the TriState Tollway (I-294). 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. A train station, the Hollywood (Zoo Stop) on Metra’s B.N.S.F. line, is a few blocks to the south of the South Gate entrance. The phone number is (708) 688-8000. 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.