News & Happenings
Spruce Up Unity Park on Earth Day!
Our theme is Plant a Flower, Take a Flower Home!(March 23, 2018 Chicago, IL) RSVP now to EarthDayChicago.org! Unity Park will be participating in Friends of the Parks annual Earth Day celebration on April 21, 2018, from 10 AM - 1 PM! And we need volunteers - sign up yourself and your kids at EarthDayChicago.org (deadline March 21) to do your bit to get our neighborhood park ready for the fun to come! Volunteers will spread fibar in the play-lot, and clean - we'll bring the supplies; wear your working clothes! Children will have their own Plant a Flower, Take a Flower Home activity. Plus free bike tune-ups for kids courtesy of Boulevard Bikes! Comments? Post 'em on the Facebook event! 
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Easter Bunny and Earth Day Herald Spring at Unity!
Unity's Year Opens with the Easter Egg Hunt!Update - The event will now be held inside Grace Church - enter at Wrightwood and Kimball!
 Grace Church of Logan Square and the Unity Park Advisory Council are teaming up for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 31, 10 AM - 1 PM at Unity Park (rain location is Grace Church, 3325 W Wrightwood Ave)! The event is FREE (donations of food will be collected for a Chicago area food pantry, but organizers want to know how many kids to expect, so please let us know here! The egg hunt is open to toddlers through children 12 years of age. We'll have several egg hunts based on age. What's more, participants will get to make their own egg bag at multiple bag decorating stations, get their face painted, and groove to fun eggy music. Strewn about the north end of Unity Park will be eggs filled with candy, treats and other goodies.
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We're Having a Party!
For Giving Tuesday, please click here to go to our Square site, and go to the donation section.
 (2017/11/16, Chicago, IL) Our annual party and fundraiser, Party for the Park, returns in a brand new edition with all the fun features you want! Enjoy a night of fun with friends while helping raise funds to help make UPAC 2018 programming possible. Tickets are $20 donation and include 1 drink ticket, 1 raffle entry and buffet with great food!
Tickets are available from your friendly neighborhood UPAC member, or online here. Please email info@UnityParkChicago.org if you need to get in touch with us!
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Our 2017 Calendar!
Pumpkinfest Is Upon Us!
 Come with them, and enjoy face-painting, pumpkin-decorating, music, and a costume parade! Don't forget the popcorn! And it's all free!
And more! Our Friends from Chicago Hockey Initiative will have a goal-shooting, and you will be able to vote in the 35th Ward Participatory Budgeting process. Take a photo at the pumpkin patch photo booth.
Remember, pumpkins and decorating supplies are limited, so don't delay, act now and get your costumes together! |
Catch the Circus and Help Puerto Rico!
Benefit performance for Puerto Rico Thursday, October 12, 7 PM
Welles Park, 2333 W Sunnyside Avenue
Missed the shows at Kosciuszko Park? Don't worry!
Midnight Circus has added a special performance dedicated to helping victims of Hurricane Maria. All artists and support staff are donating their time and talent to raise as much money, and help as many as we can.
Let's come together under the Big Top to help provide the people of Puerto Rico with desperately needed support.
Tickets $25.
100% of the proceeds go to the American Red Cross of Chicago's Hurricane Maria Relief Efforts.
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Midnight Circus - This Weekend!
Get Your Midnight Circus Tickets! And Help Our Community Replace the Spray Pool! Midnight Circus comes to our part of town for the first time, and is presented by co-hosts Unity and Kosciuszko Park Advisory Council!
Step inside the Magical "Little Big Top" for an afternoon of World-Class Circus & Amazing Feats of Fundraising right in your local park! Midnight Circus has thrilled kids and adults alike in other shows this summer, and this is your opportunity for a unique and exciting afternoon.
Tickets are available online and at the gate, and there will be refreshments available for sale.
Part of the proceeds from the circus go to the host parks, and we want to use them to start a fund to replace the spray pool at Unity with a modern soft-surfaced pool.
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Lucha Libre is at 12 PM Noon this Saturday!
The Rumble in the Park!
The rumble in the park returns as UPAC and our friends from JPW Wrestling present Lucha Libre 2017 at 12 PM (noon) on Saturday, September 2, 2017! PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER START TIME!French Cactus and Logan Square's very own Kidd Foxxx and the other fearsome luchadores bring their trademark moves and acrobatic skills to the masked frenzy of the wrestling ring at Unity! Join your neighbors, grab a spot on the lawn, and take sides and cheer 'em on to the beat of their intro music! Plus exciting raffle prizes and awesome atmosphere (yes, your neighbors and their kids are gonna be there)! And there will be awesome Lucha Libre t-shirts available for a donation. 
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Frog Temple Pilates Inc will present their final two Pilates classes on two successive Saturdays.
It's Movie-Time!
Our Summer Movie is Sing!(August 5,2017 Chicago, IL) On Saturday, August 19 at dusk (about 8 PM), it's time again to relax on the lawn in the summer evening, with popcorn, and Unity's summer movie, Sing! UPAC and the Chicago Park District present our annual summer movie at part of our Night Out in the Parks series. We will have popcorn for all for free, so come on out and watch Ash and Buster and their friends sing along to Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande!
We will also have a sneak preview of this fall's Midnight Circus in the Parks hosted by the Unity and Kosciusko Park Advisory Councils!
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Art in the Park is This Saturday! And More Fun Stuff for All!
Art in the Park's Theme is Sanctuary - This Saturday!
(July 11, 2017 Chicago, IL) Our annual community art festival is this Saturday, July 15, 2017 from 10 AM to 2 PM! The rain date is the next day, Sunday July 16, 10 AM to 2 PM. Everyone, all ages and skill levels, especially the children, is invited to this free event to create art at one of the many stations.
Local artists including collective AnySquared and Amie Sell will be there, leading projects under this year's theme: "Sanctuary." We will depict what Sanctuary means to us as a collective in a group project. Come and express your thoughts about a safe place for everyone - to live, work, play, and grow to their full potential! Materials will be provided while supplies last, but event-goers are also welcome to bring some from home. This year's sponsors include Unity Park Advisory Council, Chicago Park District, AnySquared, Ald. Carlos Ramirez Rosa (35th ward), Liberty Bank, Vicki Logan Design and Rep. Will Guzzardi (IL 39). Come work with us to put on this event! Email info@UnityParkChicago.org if you can help out!
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