The Basilica and Shrine are open for visitation:                                             
                                                     
                                                 Monday thru Friday, 9am to 4:30pm         
                                   
                                                Saturday, 9am to 12 noon
                                            
                                                Sunday, 7:30am to 1:30pm
                                                 ( NOTE: When parking lot is closed, please enter at front of Basilica
                                                                                                         on Jackson Boulevard, or through the monastery next door.)










          *A small Museum and Gift Shop are open for organized tours and on major feast days,
                including the monthly Saint Peregrine Services.
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Chapel of Saint Peregrine, focal point of
the National Shrine of Saint Peregrine,
within Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica.
 THE ORGAN;  Lyon & Healy, 1902, is probably the
  largest remaining instrument made by the Chicago
  firm.  The four-manual, fifty-seven-rank instrument
  stands in large chambers behind two symmetrical
  galleries at the sides of the chancel.  The transept
  openings are fitted with ironwork.  The oak cases
  show no visible pipework.  On the left side are the
  detached console, choir seats, and the Swell and
  Choir divisions.  On the right side are the Great and
  Solo divisions.

  The Lyon & Healy is tonally unaltered, although the
  console has been changed twice.  This organ gives
  us an idea of company practice for instruments of a
  grander scale --- for example, the long-discarded
  organ at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, built in 1904.

 The dedication recital took place March 30, 1902, with
 Clarence Eddy at the console.  The Lyon & Healy was
 awarded a citation by the Organ Historical Society,
 listing it as an historic instrument worthy of preservation.
 
                   ----From J.E. Ambrosino, OHS Organ Handbook, 2002

                          Furnished by Mary Gifford, Director of Music at
                          St. Mary Catholic Church in Des Plaines, Illinois.
                          Her recordings made on the Our Lady of Sorrows
                          organ include "The Lyon Roars" and "Catholic Heritage."
The Historic Organ at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica National Shrine
Window of Saint Cecilia, in the East Organ Gallery.
Basilica Museum*