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Mayfest Crew Cleans Up, Counts Up
If measured in sheer, gob-smacking quantities, Mayfest should be considered a success. Over the course of four days, the festival consumed over 1,000 kegs of beer, 5,000 pounds of sausage, 40 pounds of herring, 10,000 rolls, served up 3,840 pieces of cake and 7,200 dozen pretzels according to Mayfest Committee organizer and DANK Haus Chairwoman Dagmar [...]
Mayfest Finishes Up Strong And Crowded
Whoever stayed away from Mayfest due to Saturday’s rain seemed to come out today, as the square filled with thousands of hearty drinkers and people watchers. Got your own Mayfest pictures? Share them on with the CSJ Flickr pool and we’ll showcase them tomorrow!
Maifest Crowd Unfazed by Heat
The 12th annual Maifest in Lincoln Square brought out the crowds on Saturday afternoon, June 4th, despite the heat. Under the main tent the Phenix band kept people hopping with German folk music. The beer flowed into traditional “das boots”, as well as Maifest memorabilia plastic steins, while families shared favorite speciality foods such as German [...]
Sunny Weather Attracts Mayfest Crowds
The sunny, warm weather with a light breeze attracted a strong Mayfest crowd on Friday evening. CSJ stopped by to see who was enjoying themselves. Don’t forget to check schedules and see more photos on the CSJ Mayfest page!
Join CSJ For A Beer At Mayfest Saturday
If you’re looking for some friendly faces at Mayfest, stop by the southwest corner of Lincoln and Leland on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and look for at least one person in a CSJ t-shirt. We’ll be hanging out, saying hello and generally doing what people do when they drink beer outside. We’ll also be saying [...]
Tonight: Keep Mayfest Rolling With Pieptone!
We got a note from our friends from Pieptone! last week: “Just wanted to let you know that Pieptone! will be doing a Friday night, June 3rd post-Maifest performance at Glunz Bavarian Haus, 4128 N. Lincoln Ave. This should be a great evening: we’re hoping to catch revelers headed south on Lincoln after a night [...]
Mayfest Kicks Off
Despite the dreary weather, fest-goers rolled off the El and strolled into Lincoln Square on Thursday evening to start the weekend’s merriment. CSJ stopped by to see who was there.
Plan For Mayfest With CSJ
Today’s the big day! If you went by the Western El stop last night or this morning, you saw the tents and trucks all over Leland St. and Lincoln Ave. Tonight at 5:00 p.m. Mayfest Chicago kicks off the start of Center Square’s summer festival season. You can get a head start and plan ahead [...]
Introducing The Neighborhood Parents Network
Parenting in the city has amazing perks. For one thing, there are literally hundreds of choices in childcare, children’s classes, schools, and daily activities. Awesome as that is, all of these choices could easily send your head spinning. Turn to Neighborhood Parents Network of Chicago (NPN) to help guide you through many of your daily [...]
Merger Of German Organizations Canceled
A plan to consolidate operations between DANK Haus German American Cultural Center and United German American Societies of Greater Chicagoland has fallen through. The agreement would have provided $1 million in new funding to improve the DANK Haus building, freed up funds for new cultural programming by DANK Haus and more closely integrated the operations [...]
DANK Haus Merger With German Organizations Stalled
An agreement to merge DANK Haus, 4730 N. Western Ave, with the German Day festival and Mayfest to create a new German American Cultural Center has stalled because German Day and Mayfest leaders have failed to sign the necessary paperwork, according to DANK Haus Executive Director, Nicholle Dombrowski. “We have no idea [why]. We just had our quarterly [...]
DANK Haus Members Voting On Merger With German Day And Mayfest
This week the 820 members of the DANK Haus are considering a joint venture with the German Day festival and Mayfest to create a new German American Cultural Center. The new organization would provide $1,000,000 in new funding to improve the DANK Haus building, free up funds for new cultural programming by DANK Haus and [...]
The Mighty Mardi Gras Prince
Name: Prinz Josef Where we saw him: Mingling with the crowd at Lincoln Square’s Mayfest. What’s your title? I’m the prince, and this is the princess Debbie from Mardi Gras Chicago, the Rheinischer Verein, which is part of the German community and one of the Mardi Gras clubs. How long have you been involved with [...]
Lincoln Square Businesses Make the Most of Mayfest
The 11th annual Mayfest took over Lincoln Square this past weekend, and local businesses were ready for the beer-fueled revelry. ?We kept the back door closed, so no one would ask if we had a bathroom,? says Alisa Rosenthal, an employee at Enjoy, An Urban General Store. As thousands of people gathered in the Square [...]
Mayfest Photos – Day Four
Rain, rain, go away, come again in … five minutes! This seemed to be the theme for Sunday’s Mayfest festivities. People were packed shoulder-to-shoulder, all vying for?shelter?under the tents, and in the process, getting to know their fellow “rain neighbors” (as the couple in the photo so coined the term)! Erratic weather notwithstanding, all had [...]
