As Independence Day approaches, communities across the Chicago area are preparing to celebrate with fireworks, parades, and family-friendly events.While the City of Chicago will not hold a special ...

With dozens of parades, musical performances, and 4th of July fireworks displays happening from July 2 through July 5, there ...

Planning a weekend in Chicago is easy if you have a great list of things to do. Mixing famous sites with museums and great ...

Milwaukee City Parks: July 4th activities will be held at these parks: Alcott, Enderis, Gordon, Humboldt, Jackson, King, Lake, Lincoln, Mitchell, Washington, and Wilson Park. For a link to each park’s ...

Conservationists push for stronger protections for Chicago’s lakefront Chicago boasts 26 miles of publicly accessible lakefront beaches and parks.

Friends of the Parks, the lakefront preservation group that once took on George Lucas, has joined the community groups calling for city officials to slow down the development of a quantum ...

Parks advocates on Wednesday tried to throw more blocks in the way of the Chicago Bears’ stalled drive for a new stadium on the lakefront. Leaders from Friends of the Parks, Landmarks Illinois ...

Friends of the Parks, which opposes private development of the lakefront, led the effort to organize about 20 community leaders and more than a dozen groups, including the Bronzeville Historical ...

Parks advocates on Wednesday tried to throw more blocks in the way of the Chicago Bears’ stalled drive for a new stadium on the lakefront. Leaders from Friends of the Parks, Landmarks Illinois ...

The Chicago Bears reject comparisons to George Lucas' abandoned vision for a Star Wars museum on Chicago's lakefront, but they've learned from it and have studied other legal battles as they push ...