Friday 13
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation is celebrating the holidays by offering free tours of Wright’s Oak Park residence, 951 Chicago Ave., today and next Saturday. The tours will concentrate more on Victorian holiday customs–the house will be in full Christmas regalia–than on architecture, and they’ll be conducted by local junior high students. You have to pick up the free tickets some time before the tour at the Oak Park Visitors Center, 1558 Forest, open daily from 10 to 5 and at 9 AM on tour days. Shuttle buses will run from the corner of Lake and Marion (a block away from the visitors center, where there’s free parking) to the house at 9 AM; the tour takes two hours. For more info call 708-848-1500.
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Monday 16
More holiday revelry: the World’s Largest Office Party, complete with thousands of guests and celebrity bartenders galore, takes place tonight in Oak Brook and Friday in Chicago. A $5 donation tonight ($6 on Friday) goes to the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities. The party tonight is at the Hyatt Regency Oak Brook, 1909 Spring Road, from 5 to 9; call 708-573-1234. The Chicago edition is at the downtown Hyatt, 151 E. Wacker, from 3:30 to 9:30; call 565-1234. Both bashes have tons of live music, activities, and free Coke and nonalcoholic beer; there’ll also be plenty of food and drink for sale.
