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Auburn Gresham's 79th Street Renaissance Festival Brings Olympic Fever

If your olympic curiosity has gotten the best of you, then we recommend the following:

1. Visit the ICE Theaters' movie previews located at 87th and Dan Ryan.

2. Ride or look for the following CTA buses throughout the city of Chicago: 

  • 1 Indiana - Hyde Park, 2 Hyde Park Express, 3 King Drive, x3 King Drive Express, 4 Cottage Grove, x4 Cottage Grove Express, 6 Jackson Park Express, 8 Halsted, 8A South Halsted, 9 Ashland, 10 Museum of Science & Ind., 14 Jeffery Express, 24 Wentworth, 29 State, 44 Wallace Racine, 48 South Damen, 49A South Western, 55 Garfield, x55 Garfield Express, 59 59th - 61st, 63 63rd, 67 67th - 69th - 71st, 71 71st - South Shore, 75 74th - 75th, 79 79th, 87 87th, 95W West 95th, 127 Northwestern - Madison

3. Come to our community and have a Taste of Auburn Gresham's finest restaurants.

4. Come to the 3rd Annual Auburn Gresham 79th Street Renaissance Festival on Sept. 6th between 10 am - 6 pm. This free event will be full of festivities, food and entertainment. The event will take place on 79th Street between Racine and Loomis, and promises to be fun for the whole family. If you are interested in participating in this festival as a vendor, please feel free to contact our offices at 773-483-3696.

Click here to view an audio slide show of Festival in 2006. For more details, please visit the 79th Street Renaissance Festival blog at http://renaissancefest.blogspot.com/

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