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Oak Park

Oak Park [1] is a city in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Get in

Only about 10 miles west of downtown, Oak Park is easily accessible by the CTA Blue Line, Green Line or Metra Train.

Get around

See

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.

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This page was last edited at 02:35, on 7 February 2009 by Peter Fitzgerald. Based on work by Jesse Miers, Padraic Ryan and Marc Heiden.