By Helene Smith
Walk-ins welcome.
(ENLARGE FOR PROPER VIEWING)
Posted on January 29, 2016
Immerse Your Kids In The Forest!
By The Forest Preserves Of Cook County
Outdoors Empowered Network, the largest national network of Member Organizations through which educators and youth leaders have access to wilderness training and free outdoor gear libraries, welcomes the Forest Preserves of Cook County, located in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, as the first member program in the Midwest. Chicago joins Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boise, and Seattle in a growing number of cities with programs increasing much needed access to nature for youth.
The FPCC is the first government agency and land manager to join the OEN, and is emerging as a national leader in the creation of programs to support their use by youth, families and community-based organizations. The Camping Leadership Immersion Course, a program developed by the FPCC with support from OEN, provides a dynamic and affordable way to enrich the lives of young people through outdoor recreation and education. The goal of the CLIC program in the Chicagoland area, and that of the other OEN supported initiatives nationwide, is to provide outdoor experiences to youth who don’t often access public lands and overnight camping.
Posted on January 27, 2016
At The Adler | Sign Up Now For Summer Science
By The Adler Planetarium
Discover new worlds, engage in eye-opening experiments and play next to Lake Michigan this summer during an Adler Planetarium summer camp!
The Adler Planetarium offers a variety of unique summer day camp experiences for children ages 3 through 16. Young space and technology enthusiasts alike will have the opportunity to spend part of their summer exploring space, using telescopes, building rockets, seeing immersive sky shows, programming robots, exploring exhibits, launching high altitude balloons, and much, much more.
Adler’s summer camps introduce kids, teens, and tweens to doing science while engaging their creativity. Children are invited to participate in these unique, memorable experiences during one or more summer camps at the Adler. Registration opens Tuesday.
Posted on January 26, 2016
Beachwood Photo Booth: Ad Deluxe
(At The Adler | A Real Ninth Planet!
By The Adler Planetarium with The Beachwood Linking & Embedding Affairs Desk
The Adler Planetarium is excited to announce the release of their newest sky show set to open on May 28th. The sky show, still to be titled, will explore the largest of Pluto’s neighbors in the Kuiper belt and invites visitors to join in the hunt for a new ninth planet.
The observable universe is more than 90 billion light-years across, and most of it is empty space. For centuries, astronomers have used math and physics to light the way. Decades before Clyde Tombaugh first observed Pluto, astronomers Percival Lowell and William Henry Pickering had predicted the existence of a mysterious Planet X in the same celestial neighborhood.
Posted on January 21, 2016
At The Adler | Mardi Gras On Mars
By The Adler Planetarium
Mardi Gras is a huge celebration marked with festive street parties, masked balls, and lots of colorful beads. But why should the party begin and end on this planet? It’s about time we take the festivities further into our Solar System and celebrate Mars.
On February 6th, we’re saying goodbye to Earth and heading to Mars for a once-in-a-lifetime event. Guests will be transported to the Red Planet, masquerade as the first Martians, and experience first-hand what it would be like to live, work, and play on Mars. Join us on this once in a lifetime Mars-di Gras mission and let the good times rove!
Posted on January 19, 2016
Chicagoetry: Bare Trees
By J.J. Tindall
BARE TREES
Alone in the cold
Of a winter’s day,
From the rostrum
Of a raised porch,
I survey
A horizon of bare trees.
My mind
Is at it again!
Posted on January 18, 2016
Beachwood Photo Booth: Schwing!
(At The Chicago History Museum: Celebrating The Life Of MLK
By The Chicago History Museum with The Beachwood Linking & Embedding Affairs Desk
The Chicago History Museum will commemorate and celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a family-friendly tradition on Monday, January 18, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Museum’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event incorporates spoken word, performance and craft activities that reflect Dr. King’s messages of peace and justice.
Highlights include a performance of the The MLK Project: The Fight for Civil Rights by the Writers Theatre and a performance by the Chicago Chamber Choir.
This long-standing and inspiring event concludes with a reenactment of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech by award-winning storyteller Oba William King.
The day’s activities include:
Posted on January 14, 2016
Showmen’s Rest And The 1918 Hammond Circus Train Wreck
By Orrin Grey/Reuters with The Beachwood Linking And Embedding Affairs Desk
On the outskirts of metropolitan Chicago lies Forest Park, a quiet community with so many cemeteries that for much of its history the dead outnumbered the living. There, not far from a Walmart Supercenter, is Woodlawn Cemetery, and in it the 750-plot section – surrounded by five distinctive elephant statues, their trunks lowered to symbolize mourning – known as Showmen’s Rest.
Posted on January 13, 2016