Thursday Night Out Returning to Oak Park

It's finally getting warmer out, and that means more restaurants will offer outdoor seating. But in Oak Park, the downtown businesses are going all-out to bring deals, entertainment and more to dining al fresco. 

The Downtown Oak Park business district returns its Thursday Night Out starting May 23, and it will last through Aug. 29. every Thursday.

Diners can purchase $12 ticket booklets, which contain four "dine-around" tickets and one voucher for $2.50 off two adult-priced movie tickets. A dine-around ticket is good for one item from the Thursday Night Out menu. 

Ticket booklets are available at the Downtown Oak Park kiosk at Lake and Marion from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. If it's raining, they will be available at 115 N. Marion St.

For every two ticket booklets purchased, customers receive one complimentary $5 Downtown Oak Park gift certificate good at more than 25 participating stores on Thursday evenings during the season.

More than 20 Downtown Oak Park restaurants will offer a variety of drinks, appetizers, entrees and desserts on the special menu and allow diners to eat inside or carry out. Tables are also set up outside for patrons to enjoy live entertainment while dining al fresco.  

Go to the Downtown Oak Park website for a full list of entertainment. 

New features this year include the Thursday Therapy Tent, which will feature a different service business each week; a menu recycling program and green giveaways; and the ability to use the Downtown Oak Park mobile app to work toward a free dine-around booklet. 

Participating Restaurants

Aripo's Venezuelan Restaurant, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Boss Burrito, Crumbs Bake Shop, Falafill, Jerusalem Cafe, Katy’s Dumpling House, Khyber Pass, King and I Thai, Lake St. Kitchen + Bar, Luo's Peking House, Mancini's Pizza and Pasta, Munch, Potbelly, Prairie Bread Kitchen, Puree's Pizza and Pasta, Seven Ocean, Subway, Sugar Fixe, Sushi House and YoGo Station

Participating Retail Vendors

1148 Cosmetics, A Matter of Style, The Book Table, Careful Peach Boutique, Cheryl's Cookies, Claire's Accessories, The Competitive Foot, Fannie May, The Gap, The Jewelry Studio/Gold Hatpin, Knot Just Knits, Lake Theatre, Muse, Oak Park Antiques, Old Navy, Pier 1, Polished Nails and Tanning, TAKARA, TAKARA Home/Earth Dwellers, Ten Thousand Villages and Wells Street Popcorn

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