The new Railway Garden, a G-gauge model railway running through a 2.5 acre site, opens April 30. Visitors enter through a 1920s-era railway depot to see trains running through a garden of miniature plants, water features and a variety of landscapes. May 1 through October.

The Incredible Journey  | Chesterton

Discover the life of a drop of water, record the journey, and make a special bracelet to take home.

Learn basic fishing techniques, fishing ethics, safety issues and rules and regulations for fishing. Receive instruction on baiting a hook, tying a knot, casting and how to handle and return fish to the water. Participants will practice catch-and-release fishing in our stocked lake. Parents are welcome to stay.

Walk along a winding trail and view gigantic animatronic bugs, plus more than 150 stationary insects, which will be part of six themed scenes. Guests can also see live creepy crawlies in Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World! The interactive habitats feature several ecosystems to show how insects impact their surroundings, the environment, and human lives. Activities, including bug cooking demonstrations, cockroach races, a spider web climber, and other bug-themed entertainment is planned for guests throughout the summer.

Exhibit examines the ancestry and evolution of numerous species, ranging from huge to tiny, from speedy to sloth-like, and displays animals with oversized claws, fangs, snouts, and horns. Highlights include taxidermy specimens, an entire skeleton of a giant hoofed plant-eater, a life-size model of the largest land mammal that ever lived, one of the oldest fossilized bats ever found, and an impressive diorama featuring the swamps and forests of an island in the Arctic. Runs May 26, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013.

Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble presents a one act circus ballet. Circus festivities begin one hour before curtain and include face painting, circus acts and balloon art The show includes all the treasured acts of a traditional traveling circus: Tight Rope Walkers, Funny Clowns, High Flyers, Circus Animals, a Marching Band and a Strong Man.

This is the beloved story of Peter, Wendy, Michael, John, Captain Hook, Smee, the lost boys, pirates and the Indians, and of course, Tinker Bell, in their adventures in Never Land. Performances are 1 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. Sundays from May 26-June 17.

Join the antics of Brian Posen, Brian Peterlin, and Tim Soszko in their all silent comedy antics every Saturday. For tickets call the box office at (773) 327-5252 or visit www.stage773.com. Runs March 30-June 30.

In this physically stunning and emotionally charged program using suspended fabrics, bungee cords and tipping aerial hoops, ADC dancers masterfully breathe, rise, suspend and descend along the vertical dance floor. Appropriate for all ages. Performances are 7 p.m. May 17, 19, June 2, 9 and 2 p.m. June 10.

The event includes a 5K transponder-timed run, fun walk and kids dashes, followed by refreshments, awards ceremony and entertainment. A portion of proceeds benefit The Vasculitis Foundation.