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LEGO® Train Show Rolls into Cantigny December 5 & 6


Contact: Jeff Reiter
McCormick Foundation
JReiter@McCormickFoundation.org
630 260 8218


WHEATON, IL, November 17, 2009
Cantigny Park’s 8th Annual Holiday LEGO Train Show will take place Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6. Show hours each day are 9 am to 4 pm in the Cantigny Visitors Center.

“This is a holiday tradition for many families,” said Laura Evans, Cantigny director of visitor services. “The diorama’s creativity and scale are amazing—it’s a spectacle for all ages.”

The event is produced by the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club and is the group’s largest annual show in terms of display space and attendance. The 2008 Cantigny exhibit attracted 3,600 visitors over two days.

“We have members come in from out-of-state and members who have been building special items throughout the year just for this show,” said Jamie LeBlanc, NILTC president. “Our members are free to create in whatever genre they are interested in, and then we connect it all together with the trains. That’s why you might see a Star Wars stormtrooper drinking coffee and carrying a briefcase while waiting on a train platform. We love the crazy, whimsical stuff that keeps you looking at the display for hours to find new things you may have missed.”

Admission to the LEGO Train Show is free; parking at Cantigny is $5 per vehicle.

Visitors to the show are encouraged to bring new and unwrapped toys for the Marine Toys for Tots drop boxes inside the Cantigny Visitors Center. Those bringing a toy will receive free parking.

Cantigny Park, part of the McCormick Foundation, is open every day through December from 9 am to sunset. More information is available online at Cantigny.org.

About the McCormick Foundation
The McCormick Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to strengthening our free, democratic society by investing in children, communities and country. Through its grantmaking programs, Cantigny Park and Golf, museums and civic outreach program the Foundation helps build a more active and engaged citizenry. It was established as a charitable trust in 1955, upon the death of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The McCormick Foundation is one of the nation’s largest charities, with more than $1 billion in assets. For more information, please visit McCormickFoundation.org.