Allerton – Park & Retreat Center

MONTICELLO — When Ken and Sari Aronson moved to East Central Illinois in 1988, they quickly fell in love with Allerton Park and Retreat Center. Lovers of both nature and architecture, Sari said it was the perfect place to go for a stroll with their pets...

Allerton is proud to be a member of the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, a collaborative network of researchers that uses radio telemetry to track various species of birds, bats and even insects.
Allerton has three Motus towers: one in the prairie on the south side of the park, another on top of its water tower and a third near the Music Barn. Over the most recent year-long reporting period, seven northern saw-whet owls were fitted with transmitters...

It’s been a unique journey for California-based artist Joha Harrison. Louisiana born and Georgia raised, he latched onto photography early and initially wanted to enter law enforcement as a crime scene photographer.
But the confinement of covid brought out an artistic nature that had been bubbling under the surface so he switched gears, starting a collage/painting combo that is his current artistic passion....

No matter where you look at Allerton, you can see the impact of David J. Rathje, who passed away peacefully in his home on Sunday, June 1 at the age of 88.
The generosity of David and his wife Debra transformed the way that visitors access the Mansion, creating a “grand entrance” and accessible drop-off with their first million-dollar donation for the David and Debra Rathje Drive in 2017....