Visitors can view and touch six full dinosaur skeletal molds at the “Dinosaurs: Fossils Exposed” exhibit Oct. 7-Jan. 15, 2024, at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum in Libertyville. (Museum of Discovery/HANDOUT)
Here are some other events occurring the week of Oct. 5-11 in Doings and Pioneer Press suburbs.
Dream denied
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Subtext Studio Theatre Company presents “The American Dream” at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays and 3:30 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 5-29 at Madison Street Theater, 1010 Madison St., Oak Park. Tickets: $25-$30. subtextstudiotc.org.
A Guatemalan immigrant who has smuggled her way across the border finds herself imprisoned by her smuggler in world premiere of Juan Ramirez, Jr. play.
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Women’s work
Koehnline Museum of Art presents “Don’t ‘Drag’ Me Down: Today’s Battle for Liberation” at 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays Oct. 5-Nov. 3 at 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Tickets: free admission. 847-635-2633; oakton.edu/life-at-oakton/arts-at-oakton.
Juried exhibition of art by women provides social commentary and inspiration.
Bone up
Bess Bower Dunn Museum presents “Dinosaurs: Fossils Exposed” Oct. 7-Jan. 15, 2024, at 1899 W. Winchester Road, Libertyville. Tickets: $3-$10. 847-968-3400; lcfpd.org/museum/exhibitions.
Explore the bones and fossils of six full dinosaur skeletal molds, including a Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Velociraptor, plus molds of skulls, arms, legs, eggs, and footprints.
Myrna Petlicki is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.