Shakespeare's comedy about the battle between the sexes features professional actors in costume on a traveling stage, with an original, rock-inspired musical score. Show is performed at the Gateway Park on Navy Pier by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and lasts 75 minutes.

Navy Pier and Shedd Aquarium have partnered to provide special games, fun activities and festive music to celebrate the extension of the Jellies exhibit. Guests can play games, take their photo with a beach-themed photo board and interact with Navy Pier's own beach bum dancers. Pier visitors can also receive free Shedd Aquarium tickets.

Festival features a variety of authentic ethnic food, merchandise and entertainment that will enliven the downtown Loop with the tastes, sights and sounds of Chicago's diverse neighborhoods born from cities throughout the global community.

Every Wednesday, Wonder Works harvests produce from the Organic Garden and donates it to the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry. Helpers will have the opportunity to explore the garden, smell all the herbs, pick a few flowers and take home a piece of freshly picked produce.

Kids enjoy hands-on nature exploration through games and crafts. Each week will have a theme, such as insects, birds or flowers. This outdoor program will not be held during inclement weather.

From Fannie May to Brach's Candies, Tootsie Rolls, Frango Mints, Lemonheads and more, Chicago has a tasty history of making candy loved the world over. Learn about Chicago's sweet history and how candy and the City of Chicago grew up together. May 11-Sept. 18.

Join museum staff in a different park each Wednesday morning to learn about a nature theme, do a craft, and go on a nature walk. Each week covers a different theme. For a full list, call the museum at (847) 459-2318.

Go on a scavenger hunt throughout the store, taking fast and fun challenges. Plus, get a free American Girl poster at the end. Wednesdays.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater brings Shakespeare, free for all, to community parks across Chicago from July 29 to Aug. 19, Visitors to the parks will enjoy a 75-minute, daylight production of Shakespeare's enduring comedy about the battle between the sexes, "The Taming of the Shrew." For more information and performance locations, visit chicagoshakes.com/parks.

From family friendly theater productions to the most popular bands in the Midwest performing every Wednesday during the summer, the Bolingbrook Performing Arts Center has plenty of free entertainment. Each show is broadcasted to the lawn audience and presented with conventional and robotic lights, fog machine, laser effects and three giant 9x12 permanent projector screens. Concert and theater spectators bring their own picnic and/or purchase food and beverage just steps away from their seats provided by the theater or blankets and lawn chairs they bring.