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Oak Park
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Travel to Oak Park, visa requirements / Get around / Oak Park attractions and sightseeing / Frank Lloyd Wright / Other sites / City tours / Shopping, Oak Park souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Oak Park nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get outOak Park [1] is a city in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Travel to Oak Park & Visa Requirements
Only about 10 miles west of downtown, Oak Park is easily accessible by the CTA Blue Line, Green Line or Metra Train.
Tours & Getting around Oak Park
Oak Park attractions and sightseeing
Frank Lloyd Wright
Oak Park has the world's largest concentration of Wright's Prairie School works, including his workplace home.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park.
- Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, A National Historic Landmark.
Other sites
- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home, (339 N Oak Park Avenue) and The Hemingway Museum (200 N Oak Park Avenue). $8 admission, $6 for students/seniors. 1pm-5pm except Saturdays, 10am-5pm.
- Oak Park Festival Theatre, Austin Gardens, Forest Avenue & Lake Street, downtown Oak Park - The Midwest's oldest outdoor theatre. Performances run Jun-Aug.
Oak Park city tours
Oak Park souvenirs & shopping
Oak Park Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Oak Park nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs
Oak Park cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels & lodging
Get out
This page was last edited at 03:50, on 15 August 2008 by Jesse Miers. Based on work by Padraic Ryan and Marc Heiden.
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