The West Town Museum of Cultural History was extablished in 1995, by Northica H. Stone with the expressed purpose of researching, designing, exhibiting and re-echoing the heritage of Chicago's West Suburban Community. The West Town Museum has a 80% focus on Black...

Nestled in one of Cook County’s richest savannahs, Trailside Museum boasts its historic presence at the Southwest corner of Thatcher and Chicago Avenues in River Forest. Built in 1874, by Abraham J. Hoffman, it was first utilized as a high class finishing school...

Explore the wonders of the universe and the latest discoveries in astronomy, space exploration, and Earth science at the Cernan Earth and Space Center, a unique space-age facility that combines education and entertainment for people of all ages. Open all year, the...

The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest was organized in 1968 and since 1970 has been located on the second floor of Historic Pleasant Home, a National Historic Landmark in Mills Park, operating a history museum, research center and archives. The...

Explore this opulent 30-room mansion designed in 1897 by prominent Prairie-school architect George W. Maher. Find out what is happening at the Pleasant Home Foundation

More than one hundred years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright sparked an architectural revolution with the opening of his studio in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. Every year thousands of tourists visit the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, and...

Unity Church, the predecessor to our Congregation, was founded on January 25, 1871. By August of 1872, the congregation had constructed a traditional Gothic revival church building. The congregation consisted of liberal-minded individuals who purposely remained free...

Oak Park's Nobel Prize-winning literary son and his work are intelligently illuminated by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has assembled Hemingway history in photos, documents, videos and other media for the museum at 200 N. Oak Park Ave. and the...

Oak Park Conservatory is a conservatory and botanical garden located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The desert collection includes three cactus groups (cereus, opuntia, and pereskia), plus succulents including agave, crassula, succulent...

Wonder works, a Children's museum in the oak park, provides a hands-on environment intended to strenghten the social, emotional, and intellectual development of life.