Let’s Go Girls at Cantigny!

Join us at Cantigny Park for a celebration of women’s history and female empowerment.

Enjoy stories with female community leaders. Each reader will share passages from a book connected to what they do in the community.

Take a guided tour through our First in War gallery to learn about women who were significant to the cause, and appreciate the multitude of ways that women fought for our country. Tours are roughly 45 minutes.

Make your own suffrage sash and promote “Votes for Women!”
Ages 5 – 12

Get a cool photo with one of history’s most iconic women, Rosie the Riveter! The WWII-era powerhouse will be available in the First Division Museum lobby.

Play catch with members of the Rockford Peaches on the lawn behind the Visitors Center. This activity is weather dependent and will not run in wet or cold weather.

Full schedule of events:

12pm: activities begin
12:30pm: Storytime with Evelyn Sanguinetti (30 minutes)
1pm: First in War Tour (45 minutes)
1:30pm: Storytime, reader to be announced (30 minutes)
2pm: First in War Tour (45 minutes)
2:30pm: Storytime, reader to be announced (30 minutes)
3pm: final First in War Tour (45 minutes)