Visit Albany Park!
The world is waiting for you in Albany Park, Chicago's most diverse neighborhood! Enjoy a dazzling array of award-winning restaurants, markets, bakeries and retail shops on Chicago's northwest side. Taste the Thai food at Arun's Thai Restaurant Wolfgang Puck calls "probably the best in the country," buy seafood revered by Charlie Trotter and Chef Jean Joho at The Fish Guy Market, savor the authentic thin crust pizza tossed by hand in front of your eyes at Marie's Pizza, and enjoy year-round musical and theatrical performances at Northeastern Illinois University, North Park University and the Albany Park Theater Project! There is truly something for everyone here!
Click here for our dining and entertainment brochure "Experience Albany Park"
Click here for our dining and entertainment brochure "Experience Albany Park"
Mobile Neighborhood Tour
A project of LISC's Chicago Community Showcase, our Mobile Neighborhood Tours connect visitors with the exciting futures of Albany Park! Whether an ethnic eatery, a local landmark building, an historic site or a place where the future is being planned and birthed, our destinations have been selected through the collective wisdom of the community that values, preserves and creates them. Visit five other Chicago neighborhoods on the mobile tours, including Auburn Gresham, Douglas/Grand Boulevard, Oakwood/N. Kenwood, Pilsen and South Chicago.
Visit this address in your phone's browser: tours.lisc-chicago.org
A project of LISC's Chicago Community Showcase, our Mobile Neighborhood Tours connect visitors with the exciting futures of Albany Park! Whether an ethnic eatery, a local landmark building, an historic site or a place where the future is being planned and birthed, our destinations have been selected through the collective wisdom of the community that values, preserves and creates them. Visit five other Chicago neighborhoods on the mobile tours, including Auburn Gresham, Douglas/Grand Boulevard, Oakwood/N. Kenwood, Pilsen and South Chicago.
Visit this address in your phone's browser: tours.lisc-chicago.org
Tour Our Community
Tours of Albany Park, North Park & the surrounding communities are hosted by the North River Commission and the Chicago Office of Tourism's Neighborhood Tours Program. For more information and to register, please click here for the Chicago Neighbohood Tour's website or visit www.explorechicago.org.
Taste of Albany Park, Saturday, April 21 and Saturday, September 8 from 10am-2:30pm. A taste of Albany Park is a taste of the world. Visit one of the nation's most diverse zip codes, discover the rich cultures of the immigrant communities that call Albany Park home, and enjoy authentic ethnic cuisine at several neighborhood eateries. Book your tour today! Online at explorechicago.org/tours, or HERE or call 312-742-1190.
We have brought over 500 visitors to our community on over a dozen tours for the last three years! Over 1,500 viewers have watched our "slideshow" of Albany Park and taken our virtual tour via smart phones.
North River Commission (NRC), the non-profit which Albany Park Chamber is the economic development affiliate, is the official tour host for the City of Chicago’s Office of Tourism’s Neighborhood Tours of Albany Park and its surrounding neighborhoods. Tours have also been sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events (MOSE), the Burnham Plan Centennial’s “Great Spaces, Great Places”, Boeing, the Local Initiative Support Corporation/ Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, the Lisle Park District, and others.
The Albany Park Chamber connected several Albany Park eateries and Chamber members to the Office of Tourism’s monthly “Ethnic Eating Tours,” including Noon O Kabab Persian Restaurant, Jaafer Sweets, and Semiramis Lebanese Restaurant. NRC continues to host and organize tours as part of its “Albany Park Retail Marketing Campaign” to make our community a shopping, dining and entertainment destination on Chicago’s northwest side.
Click here for more of what to see, do and taste in the surrounding Albany Park area, and be sure to check out the City of Chicago's Official Tourism website, www.explorechicago.org for more information.
Taste of Albany Park, Saturday, April 21 and Saturday, September 8 from 10am-2:30pm. A taste of Albany Park is a taste of the world. Visit one of the nation's most diverse zip codes, discover the rich cultures of the immigrant communities that call Albany Park home, and enjoy authentic ethnic cuisine at several neighborhood eateries. Book your tour today! Online at explorechicago.org/tours, or HERE or call 312-742-1190.
We have brought over 500 visitors to our community on over a dozen tours for the last three years! Over 1,500 viewers have watched our "slideshow" of Albany Park and taken our virtual tour via smart phones.
North River Commission (NRC), the non-profit which Albany Park Chamber is the economic development affiliate, is the official tour host for the City of Chicago’s Office of Tourism’s Neighborhood Tours of Albany Park and its surrounding neighborhoods. Tours have also been sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events (MOSE), the Burnham Plan Centennial’s “Great Spaces, Great Places”, Boeing, the Local Initiative Support Corporation/ Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, the Lisle Park District, and others.
The Albany Park Chamber connected several Albany Park eateries and Chamber members to the Office of Tourism’s monthly “Ethnic Eating Tours,” including Noon O Kabab Persian Restaurant, Jaafer Sweets, and Semiramis Lebanese Restaurant. NRC continues to host and organize tours as part of its “Albany Park Retail Marketing Campaign” to make our community a shopping, dining and entertainment destination on Chicago’s northwest side.
Click here for more of what to see, do and taste in the surrounding Albany Park area, and be sure to check out the City of Chicago's Official Tourism website, www.explorechicago.org for more information.
Do you want to book a tour of Albany Park and/or North Park? Contact Liz Griffiths at the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce at (773) 478-0202 ext. 116 or email her here.
Getting Around
Visit us via the CTA's Ravenswood Brown Line or Blue Line, the 1-90 Kennedy or 1-94 Edens Expressways, the North Shore Channel Bike Trail or the North Branch of the Chicago River! There are public parking lots at Kimball & Lawrence (CTA Park N' Ride), Kedzie just north of Lawrence Ave (CTA Park N' Ride), and plenty of on-street and angled parking spaces.
Click here to begin planning your trip on CTA!
Click here to begin planning your trip on CTA!
