Paris puts Park Ridge artist’s statue of Lincoln on display near Champs Elysee

Usually the well-worn path is one-way, from France to the United States, for high culture and haute cuisine alighting here via the Statue of Liberty, art galleries, fancy restaurants and bakeries. But when the course was reversed, in this instance from Park Ridge to the streets of Paris, there was cause for celebration on Saturday, June 15, via French champagne, charcuterie trays and macarons at the local Kalo Foundation for the most all-American of symbols – a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Park Ridge art patrons gathered at a white-painted converted home just northwest of downtown to hear a story that […]