Author: CPAC

Friends of Commercial Park: We have some exciting news! The Commercial Park playground is finally getting new soft surface in the Spring of 2025!

But even MORE exciting: thanks to the incredible generosity of a Commercial Park family and Alderman Gilbert Villegas, the field and the basketball court will be getting much-needed facelifts as well!

Here’s where we need your help. We’d like community input on what additional upgrades you’d like to see in the park. Please follow the link below to a survey ranking how important you find each of these proposed improvements. More seating? Better gardens? More green space? You can even make your own suggestions. (Don’t bother suggesting “glow in the dark water slide”- I already tried.)

Here’s the survey link, and thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!

The most epic event in the neighborhood: Halloween at Commercial Park! Join us on Saturday, October 26th, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. for games and crafts and hot chocolate and Halloween stories and a (really not scary) haunted house and the best part of all: the Trick Or Treat Parade around the block, which kicks off at 3:30 p.m. Hope to see you there! The party is free, but donations are always appreciated!

Halloween at Commercial Park: Ruining Naptime Since 1998.

Really, I think this party should be called “Excuse to Get Out the Bounce House” but that’s hard to fit on marketing materials, I guess. Anyways, join us on Saturday, September 14th, from noon until 4 p.m. as we take over Rice Street with food and ice cream and music and all those neighbors you keep meaning to meet! There will be a special performance by School of Rock at 2 p.m., crafts with our favorite librarians from the Chicago Public Library, and yes, the Bounce House!

FREE MOVIE!

Didn’t get an invite to the last night of the DNC? Join us at Commercial Park for some D&D!

Movies in the Parks presents Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Thursday, August 22nd at 8:00 p.m. in the Commercial Park field, 1854 W. Rice.

The Commercial Park Advisory Council is the proud underwriter of this event and we welcome all paladins, druids, wizards, bards, clerics, and Chris Pine lookalikes to join us for the show. Bring your bug spray, your blankets, and some gold pieces for the snack bar!

Just a bit behind in posting our schedule of events for this year, but y’all, we got BARBIE and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS for our Movies in the Park…..🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸

(Yes we are pretending that T-Rex is a dragon.)

 Juneteenth: Saturday, June 15th

 MOVIES IN THE PARK: Barbie: July 19th

 Stand Up To Hate Play Date: Saturday, August 10th

 MOVIES IN THE PARK: Dungeons & Dragons: August 22nd

 Blocktoberfest: Saturday, September 14th

 Halloween: October 26th, 2- 3:30 p.m.

 Santa & S’mores: Saturday, December 21st

Times will be posted ASAP!🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖🌸🦖