Old Town Art Fair Turns 75 With Its Biggest Garden Walk Yet

Old Town Art Fair Turns 75 With Its Biggest Garden Walk Yet

OLD TOWN — On a short walk down Menomonee Street in Old Town — the same walk thousands of visitors will take during this weekend’s neighborhood art fair — you’ll pass homes dating back to the 1880s, including ones once owned by Edward Boarini, a Swiss watchmaker, and Charles Wacker, the beer baron’s son who became one of Chicago’s most influential city planners. This stretch of Old Town also includes what Diane Gonzalez, the owner and principal …