Experience Albany Park!
The world is waiting for you in Albany Park, Chicago's most ethnically 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, sip the saki loved by Japanese Major League Baseball stars at Chiyo Japanese Restaurant and enjoy year-round musical performances at Northeastern Illinois University and North Park University. There is truly something for everyone in Albany Park!
Click here for BROCHURE to "Experience Albany Park" entertainment and dining
Slideshow of Albany Park
Explore the heart of Albany Park where you can shop like a world traveler in a few short blocks. Converging here are goods from all over the world — from belly dancing gear to Korean herbs. When you're done shopping, eat hearty. In Albany Park, it's easy to sample ethnic delicacies ranging from Middle Eastern hummus to Swedish Meatballs to Korean barbeque. Enjoy!
Click here for BROCHURE to "Experience Albany Park" entertainment and dining
Slideshow of Albany Park
Explore the heart of Albany Park where you can shop like a world traveler in a few short blocks. Converging here are goods from all over the world — from belly dancing gear to Korean herbs. When you're done shopping, eat hearty. In Albany Park, it's easy to sample ethnic delicacies ranging from Middle Eastern hummus to Swedish Meatballs to Korean barbeque. Enjoy!
Tour Our Community
Take a tour and learn about Albany Park! 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.
We have brought over 500 visitors to our community on over a dozen tours since 2009! 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 Greater Albany Park area, and be sure to check out the City of Chicago's Official Tourism website, www.explorechicago.org for more information.
We have brought over 500 visitors to our community on over a dozen tours since 2009! 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.
Click here for more of what to see, do and taste in the Greater 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? Contact Liz Griffiths at the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce at (773) 478-0202 ext. 12 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!
