19th Annual Benefit: A Walk Through Time

Sunday, June 12, 2016
House Walk from 1:00-4:00pm
Reception & Silent Auction from 4:00-5:00pm

Glessner House Museum
1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
$50 per person / $40 for members (coupon code required)

This very special tour provides attendees with the rare opportunity to visit the interiors of several historic homes in the Prairie Avenue Historic District. See beautifully carved wood moldings, leaded glass windows, fireplaces in elaborate tile, mosaic, and marble, and much more! Glessner House Museum is also included on the tour as well as historic Second Presbyterian Church with its landmarked Arts and Crafts interior and collection of Tiffany windows. Clarke House Museum will be open to the public for free that afternoon as well.  Following the tour, attendees are invited to return to the museum for a reception and silent auction, featuring theatre tickets, Chicago memorabilia, collectibles, architectural fragments, and other items of interest.

Glessner House Museum

Preview auction items (new or 2016!) and place absentee bids.

Absentee bids will be accepted from 9:00am on Monday June 6, 2016 through 5:00pm on Friday June 10, 2016. Bidding re-opens at 12:30pm on Sunday June 12 and closes at 4:45pm.

Kimball House

To purchase tour tickets, click here.

Fire & Ice Festival at Chicago Women's Park and Gardens

Second Presbyterian Church to Achieve Landmark Status

Only Church in Chicago to Achieve National Historic Landmark Recognition.
While other old Chicago churches have been razed, the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago will celebrate its National Historic Landmark designation with a dedication ceremony. National Historic Landmark status, conferred by the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Park Service, reflects the church’s significance in American culture and history.

The interior is an example of the Arts and Crafts style.

WHY: The sanctuary of the church, dating to 1901, is one of the largest and best preserved Arts and Crafts interiors in the nation. It also contains a wealth of stained glass windows including nine by the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Founded in 1842, Second Presbyterian Church has been an important cultural institution and community center serving a multi-cultural congregation and community.

WHAT: National Historic Landmark Dedication for Second Presbyterian Church

WHEN: 6:00 p.m. June 20, 2013

WHERE: Second Presbyterian Church
               1936 S. Michigan Ave.
               Chicago, IL 60616

There is no charge for this event and everyone is invited to attend.

Halloween “Friendly Trail” This Saturday

The Chicago Park District will be sponsoring a Halloween “Friendly Trail” at Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens this Saturday, October 29, 2011, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. The event is geared toward children eight years of age and younger. There is a $10 per child charge for the Friendly Trail.

The Halloween Friendly Trail is loosely based on the Candy Land board game.

The Halloween Friendly Trail is a kid-friendly activity (nothing scary) loosely based on the popular children’s game Candy Land. Center Director, Lauren Polinsky and the Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens staff has been hard at work turning beach pails into gumdrops and Frisbees into pieces of wrapped hard candy. The unique pathways in the park lend themselves perfectly to a “live” board game. In addition to the Friendly Trail, there will be crafts and activities in the field house.

Some of the preparations for Saturday's Halloween Friendly Trail inside the field house