Grandparents Day Gift Guide · Sunday, September 13
The frame, the candle, the mug with the year on it: they have those. What they do not have is a reason to try the new place on the corner. Give a Highland Park Gift Card, good at over 10 independent businesses around Highland Park. Then go with them.

Not money, and not another object for the shelf. A morning at the diner, a browse through the bookshop, coffee that turns into an hour.
over 10 independent businesses in Highland Park. Their pick, not your guess.
What they spend goes to the Highland Park businesses they already walk past, not to a national chain.
These Highland Park businesses accept the Highland Park Gift Card. Let them decide which one.
The diner, the bakery counter, the coffee place around Highland Park where nobody rushes you out.

Food & Dining
1766 Second Street, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Food & Dining
1855 Deerfield Rd., Ste. H, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Food & Dining
1823 St. Johns Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Food & Dining
1879 Second Street, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Food & Dining
1350 Old Skokie Road, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Bookshops, antique stores, garden centers. The kind of browse that fills an afternoon.
Retail
1438 Old Skokie Road, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035-3032
Retail
508 Central Ave, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Retail
601 Elm Place, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Retail
600 Central Avenue, Suite 111, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Retail
1839 Second Street, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Retail
1850 Second Street, Suite 162, Highland Park, Illinois, 60035
Museums, galleries, a show around Highland Park. Better as a plan than as a package.
The barber, the salon, a wellness stop close to home. Time that is theirs.
Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13, so a Highland Park Gift Card is waiting in their inbox that morning.
Pick the amount that feels right.
Say where you two should go.
Delivered by email, or print it to hand over. No shipping, no wrapping.
National Grandparents Day falls on the first Sunday after Labor Day, which makes it Sunday, September 13 in 2026. It has been a federal observance in the U.S. since 1978.
The Highland Park Gift Card is accepted at over 10 independent businesses in Highland Park: restaurants, cafés, bakeries, shops, and salons. They pick where and when.
Then this is probably the wrong gift for them, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Highland Park Gift Card is redeemable only at local businesses in Highland Park, so it suits someone who lives in or regularly visits the area. A grandparent who visits now and then can spend it on this trip. Unused balances can incur inactivity fees: a $3.00 fee will be deducted monthly starting on the 1st day after 12 consecutive months without card usage.
Choose an amount, add a note, and send it by email, or print it to hand over in person. Nothing ships.
Yes. Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13.
Often that is exactly who buys it. It works the same way in that direction, as long as the grandchild is close enough to spend it at businesses in Highland Park.
E-delivery fees vary by community, and some communities cover them. Whatever applies to your order is shown at checkout before you pay, alongside the card amount and your total.
A Highland Park Gift Card they can spend at over 10 independent Highland Park businesses. Sent by email. Spent down the street.
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