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The Chicago International Children's Film Festival is the largest annual festival of films for children (ages 2–16) in the world, [2] programming 250 films and videos from 40 countries. With 25,000 children, adults and educators and over 100 filmmakers, programmers and celebrities each year, the Festival is one of the only [ clarification ...
Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago is a children's museum in Glenview, Illinois that provides a hands-on learning laboratory for children ages birth to 8. It is named for philanthropist Dolores Kohl, daughter of the founder of Kohl’s department stores, who founded the museum through her education foundation in 1985. [ 1 ]
The Chicago Children's Museum is located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1982 by The Junior League of Chicago who were responding to programming cutbacks in the Chicago Public Schools .
21 spring activities for kids and families. Ready to get started on all the spring fun? Here are 21 ideas to try. Catch a baseball game. Drive to where the flowers are blooming.
Miniature gasoline-powered cars were added a few years later after Fritz learned that they were being given away to children by a Chicago newspaper as a subscription promotion. By the 1930s, Fritz was calling his collection of amusements Kiddieland; the attractions were primarily sized and geared towards younger children.
Chicago Botanic Garden. Location: Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL Dates: Wednesday 10/11 through Sunday 10/15; Wednesday 10/18 through Sunday 10/22; 6:30 to 10:30 p.m ...
Chicago cartoonist John T. McCutcheon was the president of the Chicago Zoological Society from 1921 until 1948 and oversaw the zoo's construction, opening and its early years, including helping it through the war years, when the zoo saw a decrease in attendance. Grace Olive Wiley briefly worked as a reptile curator at the zoo in 1935. [26]
Portage Park quickly became the center of the community, providing athletics and team sports, cultural and club activities, festivities and special events for residents of Chicago's Northwest Side. [2] The park in Portage Park originally had a dirt bottom pond that blended into a cement bottom pool. The hill to the east of the pool that exists ...