The beautifully designed 19,000-square-foot Independence Grove Visitors Center is situated along the east shore of the preserve's 115-acre lake. The facility offers a spacious interior with a classroom, nature, history and traveling exhibits and a cafe with indoor and outdoor service. Walls of windows offer panoramic views of the lake and preserve.
The Visitors Center can be rented for weddings and other private celebrations, corporate meetings and retreats, and community functions. For more information: Call 847-247-1111.
Audubon Hall, the center's largest rental space, accommodates up to 350 people. The hall features elevated ceilings and a spacious design, making it the perfect setting for your next celebration or corporate meeting. More intimate settings are available by reserving one of the smaller partitioned spaces. For warm weather events, the indoor space flows easily outdoors onto a covered veranda.
The picturesque Millennia Plaza and surrounding amphitheater, fountain and native garden makes an ideal setting for a variety of special programs, events and outdoor celebrations.
Rental and catering arrangements: Events at Independence Grove, 847-247-1111.
Open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted
Please note: traffic on IL Rte 137 (Buckley Road) in front of the preserve entrance is reduced to one lane in each direction through August 15 as the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) works on the Des Plaines River bridge. For project updates, please visit the IDOT Web site. |
