DANK-HAUS German Cultural Center, Chicago

Lincoln Square Lanes

A second-floor bowling alley, right above a hardware store, with hand-scoring and an old Midwestern lodge feel (but with a fresh remodeling from 2013)

Davis Theater

In the neighborhood for more than 80 years

Krause Music Store

Built in 1922, this was the last commission of legendary architect Louis Sullivan

The Old-Town School of Folk Music

If you're interested in folk music from America or anywhere else in the world you should definitely plan to spend some time at the Old-Town School

Welles Park

One of the best neighborhood parks in the city

Cambodian Association of Illinois

In addition to their work with Cambodian immigrants and refugees, the CAI also runs a small but highly effective Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial at their building near Albany Park

Horner Park

Great big wonderful park with plenty of softball fields, football and soccer fields, basketball and tennis courts, trees, and a nice walking path

Timber Lanes

If you like to sample the bowling culture of any city you visit, this is a fine choice; there are eight well-kept lanes, a cash bar, a good jukebox, and a few references to The Big Lebowski

Andersonville - and the second floor of the Nelson Funeral Home, to be precise - is the home of the long-running late-night show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind and its ever-changing menu of the funny, the profound, and the occasional tongue bath for a 20th century European ethos, intended to be accomplished within the confines of thirty plays in sixty minutes

Black Ensemble Theater

Committed to building racial bridges through telling stories of African-American history to a cross-cultural audience

DANK-HAUS German Cultural Center, Chicago