The recently renovated Meadow Road Tot Lot includes a small play set, a sand pit, a half-court basketball court and a swing set with swings. The area is designed for special needs children and located in a residential area.
Oaklane Park offers multiple play areas for children that feature bars, a rock wall and slides. The park also features a sand area with digging tools, two tennis courts, a baseball diamond and a swing set for special needs children.
Orthodox synagogue Northbrook Congregation Ezra Habonim has separate prayer areas for men and women and classrooms for Torah instruction. Its building includes a store selling jewelry, candle sticks, mezuzahs and other religious items.
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism works with conservative synagogues throughout the Midwest to organize educational and religious programming and connect local Jewish communities. This is an administrative office only and is not open to the public.
Northbrook's Christian Science Society is located in a building that dates to 1892 and once housed the Hope Union Church. It is fittingly located at the intersection of Church and Chapel streets; services are held on Sundays at 10:30am. The site is a branch of the Church of Christ, Scientist, a denomination founded in Boston at the turn of the 20th century.
West Park's outdoor space includes three baseball diamonds, a playground with a sand play area, three tennis courts, two sand volleyball courts and a pool with interactive toys and slides. The indoor sports center features two NHL-sized ice rinks, which were renovated in 1999 and offer open skating year round.
Northbrook's Chamber of Commerce boasts more than 675 members, including local giants Allstate, Crate and Barrel, and Underwriters Laboratories. The majority of chamber businesses, however, have 25 employees or less. Governed by a 13-member board, the chamber provides networking, marketing and advocacy for its members.
Stonegate Park includes a playground, a swing set designed for special-needs children and pairs of baseball diamonds and tennis courts. Located inside the Stonegate subdivision, much of the land was donated by a developer after a Northbrook resident organized a coalition to stop the land from becoming commercial property.
Built on land donated by the Salceda North subdivision's owner, Salceda Park includes a double seesaw, a sandpit with digging tools, a swing for special-needs kids, and a play area with slides, tubes to crawl through and more.
This Young Israel synagogue is affiliated with the National Council of Young Israel, an organization that began in 1912. It offers a vibrant, active congregational life to its members. A variety of support groups are available, as well as recreational activities such as basketball leagues and singles groups. Educational opportunities, training and job-placement services are also provided.
While Korean Central Covenant Church has only a tiny adult congregation, they occupy a huge space that was originally an elementary school. A member of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), the church has classrooms, chapels, a gymnasium and two kitchens can be rented by other community and religious groups.
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The Christian Science Association of the Pupils of Anetta G. Schneider practices Christian Science, a religion that believes true reality is spiritual, not material. Where medicine asserts something is physically "broken" and needs to be fixed, Christian Science asserts spiritual reality is perfect and contrary beliefs need to be corrected. Prayer is not asking God to intervene, but learning to spiritualize thought in order to perceive the perfect spiritual reality where illness does not exist. Teachers of Christian Science like Anetta G. Schneider instruct others and provide a lifetime commitment of annual Association meetings with teaching continuing even after the teacher has passed on.