What's Happening in Barrington, IL…

The Sanfilippo Estate in Barrington Hills will once again host the Steam Department Benefit in a few months’ time.

This annual event has been going on for a decade. The music theater of the estate will perform a concert with one of the biggest theater pipe organs in the world. The organ was originally a 1927 Wurlitzer, but today, it has 8,000 percussions, pipes, and sounds. The organ will also be part of a showing of The General, a Buster Keaton silent film, on the same afternoon.

Place de la Musique is the nickname for the house, which has 55,000 square feet of space. Jasper Sanfilippo, who used to be the CEO of the company that owns Fisher Nuts, owns the estate, and his Sanfilippo Foundation helps non-profits hold fundraising events.

It has several art and antique collections. Along with the pipe organ, there are multiple historic machines, engines, clocks, and phonographs. A setting of a Parisian street during the Second Empire of the French surrounds the collections. Guests are serenaded by organs and can ride a salon carousel named the Eden Palais.

Tickets are $69.99 and go toward the Steam Department of the Illinois Railway Museum. Guests must buy the tickets before the event. They will receive their tickets and directions to the location in the mail if they purchased them before May 26. After that date, guests can pick up their tickets at the estate. Estates and manors often send information on custom Letterheads.

The Steam Department Benefit will be on June 7, starting at 1:00 pm.

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