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Chicago's annual Maifest festival is back, keeping special German traditions alive with authentic food, drinks, dancing, and music.
The day moves pretty fast, so meticulously planning your Chicago tour is key.
Neighbors are pushing for a Northwest Side park to be renamed after an influential German-Jewish author and poet who died in the Holocaust. Kolmar Park, 4143 N. Kolmar Ave., is named for the street on which it sits. Kolmar Avenue got its name from a town on the border of France and Germany, according to the Chicago Park District website. Kolmar was the name of two towns in Germany, but after World War I in 1919 changed the borders, the towns separated and now have different names. Late last year, neighbors began a campaign to rename the park for poet Gertrud Kolmar, who was born in Berlin in ...
Christmas market goes virtual FacebookTwitterEmail Dank Haus, the Chicago-based German American Cultural Center, is taking its annual Weihnachtsmarkt virtual this year, with a range of online activities scheduled Saturday via its website at dankhaus.com. Virtual bingo will start at 1 p.m., followed by a virtual story time at 2 p.m., a craft workshop at 3 p.m. and a virtual workshop on how to make a marzipan pig at 4 p.m. The Dank Haus tree lighting will be at 5 p.m. on Facebook Live, with virtual story time returning at 6 p.m. and a 7 p.m. program by Mike Haas on “The German Imprint on Our ...