summer
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Chicago area EVENT to visit this summer
Suggestions: sports team, music festival, local village festival, ethnic festivals, fireworks show, auto race, etc. Palatine Street Fest is so much fun. Palatine Street Fest takes place in-you guessed it-Palatine, Illinois, from August 25th through August 27th. The downtown area of the suburb is closed to cars so people are free to mill around as they please. Food vendors Read more
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Chicago area (city or suburbs) PLACE to visit in the summer
A good place to visit in the summer is Lake Opeka in Des Plaines. To walk around, relax, build a paper boat and watch it sail away or get in a paddle boat competition and paddle with your friends. Also go visit the planetarium they have (free days) check it on their website A Chicago Read more