Pillars of Our Farmers Market Community Celebrate Golden Anniversaries
Photo courtesy Oak Park Farmers Market
Stop by the farmers markets in near suburban Evanston and Oak Park on a summer Saturday to help them celebrate their 50th anniversaries.
Evanston Farmers Market is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays at University Avenue and Oak Street in the city’s downtown area. Oak Park Farmers Market operates from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays at 460 W. Lake Street in the parking lot of Pilgrim Congregational Church.
While Aurora Farmers Market—open since 1912—is by far the region’s oldest market, Evanston and Oak Park are among a handful of local food markets that launched in the 1970s and continue to thrive today.
Bob Benenson is the writer and publisher of Local Food Forum, a Chicago-based publication that maintains a regional farmers market tracker and covers the markets regularly. For more information, visit LocalFoodForum.com.
