The Western Elstons, pictured here at Simon’s Tavern, play Saturday at the daylong Maypole Folk Festival. Credit: Rebecca Ciprus The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

The Swedish Day Midsummer Festival returns for its 113th year on Sunday, June 18, at Good Templar Park in Geneva. "Svenskarnas Dag" is the Midwest's oldest Midsummer festival, dating back to 1911.

The annual weekend-long celebration of ancient May Day traditions left attendees refreshed and rejuvenated — and exhausted from a weekend of running around in the sun and dancing around a fire at ...

Visitors to Geneva Sunday had a chance to channel their inner Viking during the 113th Swedish Day Midsummer Festival at Good Templar Park. The festival celebrates the Scandinavian celebration of ...