Nancy Maes

Get your bikes in gear for the Frank Lloyd Wright Bicycle Tour at 2 p.m. Sunday. Guides lead bikers along the tree-lined streets of Oak Park to see 24 Wright...

Two events Saturday in Evanston are kid-pleasers. Northwestern University is inviting kids to campus for its annual "Family Day: A Festival of Fun." Festivities begin at 10:30 a.m. with a...

Children will be doing a lot of dancing at the Chicago Cultural Center this month. As part of a series of performances called "From the East: Preserving and Extending," the...

Hannibal Lokumbe (formerly known as Hannibal Peterson and pictured at right) has made a name for himself not only as a trumpet player but as a composer as well. He...

A free "Jazz Journey" at the Terra Museum of American Art will take children to a place where jazz music and the visual arts intersect. This family tour of the...

After Steve Rashid recorded an album of lullabies for families called "i will hold your tiny hand," he had a slight problem. Not that the recording, made at his studio...

Broadcaster Hugh Downs (right) began his career in Chicago, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications, 78 E. Washington St., is celebrating that fact through May 20. Among the excerpts of...

Jean Getzel, the children's book buyer for Anderson's Bookshops, recalls recently watching a boy who bought $70 worth of hardcover books in Brian Jacques' Redwall series. She also remembers a...

Two years ago, the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., opened an art gallery on the initiative of photographer and Oak Park native James Weinstein. His works made up...

Gary Rosen has been singing songs for children for some 20 years now, and he says that kids are still kids but times change. He remembers when he was in...