We're proud to host one of the Chicago Park District's Movies in the Park! Get settled in Lincoln Park with your chairs and blankets and enjoy a free screening of In Old Chicago. Bring your own snacks and beverages, but please remember—no glass containers or alcoholic drinks.

Prior to the screening, enjoy some trivia questions about the Great Chicago Fire and In Old Chicago with Jeff Spitz, associate professor of cinema and television arts at Columbia College Chicago, and City on Fire: Chicago 1871 curator Julius L. Jones.

Free admission, no registration required. Trivia begins at 6:30 p.m.; screening begins about 7:30 p.m. or at dusk. Location is east of CHM in the grove near North Avenue and Dearborn Street. Look for "Fountain Girl: Frances Willard Memorial."

IN OLD CHICAGO

The O'Leary brothers—honest Jack and roguish Dion—become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

 NR | 95 minutes | 1938