If you have lived in Elmhurst for more than three summers, you already know the downtown loop. York Street to Schiller Court, over to Cottage Hill for the Art Museum, up to Wilder Park, back through the Cultural Campus. The route has not changed. Almost everything along it has.
This summer the same half-mile you have walked a hundred times contains a speakeasy that did not exist last July, a sandwich shop where Beer on the Wall used to have a quiet neighbor, a Mexican grill in the old Harlo Grill space, and a second round of umbrellas that will replace the current ones in early July. The Fourth Fridays concert series at the History Museum is only in its second year and is quietly becoming the thing you tell out-of-town friends about. Here is what actually changed, where to find it, and how to plan a Saturday around any of it.
The Half-Mile That Reshuffled
Start at 105 N. York Street. That is Pronto Italian Sandwiches, which
