129 Lake St
Oak Park, IL 60302
United States
Celebrate Juneteenth with us and learn about the contributions and influence African Americans had on our two villages.
Grab your helmet and your water bottle and ride your bicycle over to Oak Park River Forest Museum for a bicycle tour led by Executive Director Frank Lipo on Thursday, June 19. We’ll meet in front of the museum, 129 Lake St., and the tour, expected to last about two hours, will begin at 6 p.m.
The tour will stop at several of the sites included in Black History Bike Tour booklet, including Oak Park Village Hall, Julian Middle School and the former Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.
To RSVP, contact us on our website or via email at oprfhistorymatters@sbcglobal.net. This will also allow us to contact to you in case we have to cancel the tour due to inclement weather. Though we prefer to have an estimate of how many riders we’ll need to accommodate, we expect to be able to accept people who show up the day of the event.
If you can’t make this guided tour, you can view the Oak Park Black History Bike Tour: People and Places that Matter as a PDF. This self-guided tour was created by OPRF Museum in celebration of Oak Park’s first municipal for Juneteenth in 2021.
To learn about other celebrations in Oak Park and River Forest, including Oak Park's Juneteenth Community Cookout on Saturday June 14 and River Forest's Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony on Wednesday June 18, Visit the Village of Oak Park's website and the Village of River Forest's website for more details.