Tinley Park Oktoberfest
Tinley Park, IL · Food & Drink
- When
- September 18–20, 2026
- Where
- Harmony Square, Oak Park Ave & North St · Tinley Park · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A German beer and food festival at Harmony Square in downtown Tinley Park, run by the Tinley Park Chamber of Commerce. A stein holding contest, live polka music and family activities fill the plaza each September. The Chamber has kept it running as a community tradition even in years when its budget was tight.
The history within reach
The Illinois Central authorised a large classification yard between Harvey and Homewood in 1917, held the work up through the war and finished it in 1926, naming it for Charles H.
About 105 acres of high quality sandy loam prairie survive here inside the built up south suburbs, part of a cluster of remnants the Nature Conservancy began acquiring in 1971.
Members of Chicago's Standard Club, a Jewish social club, founded Ravisloe on a Homewood farm in 1901, and it is recognised as the first Jewish country club in the region.
The Illinois Central built this depot in 1923 for the Panama Limited and the Seminole Limited and had two of its own engineers design it in Mission Revival, with a barrel tile roof, rough stucco walls and undulating parapets.
Robbins was incorporated in December 1917 and is the second oldest African American incorporated town in the North, after Brooklyn, Illinois.