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Model Railroad Garden - The 7,500-square-foot Model Railroad Garden features trains running on 1,600 feet of track. The garden-scale trains are 1/29th the size of life-size trains. Train and garden enthusiasts, young and old, return year after year for the delightful sights and sounds of the miniature trains traversing high and low through tunnels, across bridges, and around buildings. All are int...

May 9-10, 2015 - For 45 years, Zurko Promotions has been bringing quality antique shows, flea markets, and events to the Midwest. Shopping for antiques & collectibles can be a fun and interesting way to spend an afternoon.

A visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 385-acre, living museum campus—in all four seasons—should inspire awe, joy, and well-being, and feel welcoming and safe to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. The Garden, because of its science and education expertise, conservation focus, and research collaborations, is uniquely equipped to address some of the most pressing needs of our time. Our...

August 28, 2014 - April 24, 2016 - An exhibition of photographic portraits, explores how cultural achievements of the ancient Middle East have created or contributed to much of modern life. To show the connections between the past and today, artifacts that document the origins or development of professions such as baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, writer, astronomer, or judge in the ancient world...

This new public art installation of works by the artist in Millennium Park on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Plensa’s acclaimed Crown Fountain, coincides with the exhibition of recent sculpture by Jaume Plensa in a new range of media, currently on view at Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago. Both projects continue Plensa’s ongoing focus on the human figure, specifically the head as a sanctuar...