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Port Clinton Art Festival
Highland Park, IL · Arts & Culture
- When
- August 28–29, 2027
- Where
- Port Clinton Square, downtown Highland Park · Highland Park · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A juried fine-art fair in downtown Highland Park's Port Clinton Square, produced by Amdur Productions since 1983. It draws over 200 exhibiting artists and is reported to attract more than 100,000 visitors across the weekend, one of the largest suburban art festivals in Illinois.
The history within reach
A gunman fired from a rooftop into the Fourth of July parade here in 2022, killing seven people and wounding dozens on a street full of families with children.
Stews & Brews takes over Port Clinton Square in downtown Highland Park each October, with local restaurants serving soups, stews, and chili alongside craft beer sampling.
The Great Highwood Pumpkin Fest transforms downtown Highwood each October with pumpkin carving stations, illuminated pumpkin walls, and a Skeletons on Display exhibit of costumed skeleton figures around town.
The glass box in the trees that Cameron Frye kicks his father's Ferrari out the back of, in John Hughes's 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is a real modernist house in Highland Park.
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It started in 1904 as an amusement park built by a railway to give people a reason to ride the line out from Chicago, went bust, and came back as a music park.