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- Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute, on the eastern side of the Loop, provides reason alone to visit Chicago. One of the world's premier galleries, the Art Institute has found generous patronage among Chicago's wealthy. Their contributions have funded a magnificent collection that spans 5000 years of art. The bronze lions flanking the steps are Chicago icons.
Chicago Cultural Center
A few blocks north of the Art Institute is the Chicago Cultural Center, which often sponsors free music concerts. Galleries, exhibitions, beautiful interior design and a permanent museum all make the cultural center an interesting place to roam. It includes the Museum of Broadcast Communications, a fun nostalgic museum that takes you back to the simpler days before digital broadcasting and multiple channels. Local stars such as Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy recall the radio era. Television exhibits include clips of pioneering shows like 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' and 'The Honeymooners' and are supplemented by famous local events, such as the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential election debate of 1960, which took place at a Chicago television station.
Magnificent Mile
This grandly named stretch of Michigan Avenue runs from the Chicago River north to Lincoln Park. 'Mag Mile,' as it's widely known, is a shopper's paradise: you can find everything from the swankiest upscale boutiques to chain stores. Its most famous landmark is the Tribune Tower, a 1925 gothic masterpiece that's home to the Pulitzer-prize winning Chicago Tribune. Eccentric owner Col Robert McCormick had his overworked reporters send rocks from famous buildings and monuments around the world and then embedded them around the base of the building. The Magnificent Mile lies northeast of the Loop.
Navy Pier
From 1918 to 1930, the huge Navy Pier on Lake Michigan's shore was the city's municipal wharf. Later, it became the first home of the University of Illinois at Chicago. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was like a decaying beached whale - smelly, difficult to dispose of and with no known use. Some US$200 million later, it has been converted into a combination amusement park, children's museum, meeting center, food court and source of many weary feet. The results have proven to be a hit, with 5 million people each year trekking out to the pier, which lies immediately east of downtown.
Field Museum of Natural History
Highlights of the Field Museum of Natural History include an ambitious walk-through exhibit that attempts to capture the scope of Africa by taking visitors from bustling city streets to expansive Saharan sand dunes; a recreated multi-level Egyptian burial chamber housing 23 mummies; and a Dinosaur Hall filled with skeletons, some of which measure their age in the tens of millions of years. The Field's most dramatic acquisition came in 1997, when it paid US$8.4 million for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Sue. Found a few years earlier by a less-than-savvy rancher who sold it for US$5000, it's the best-preserved skeleton of the fierce meat-eater yet found.
Shedd Aquarium
Beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, harbor seals, sea otters and penguins are among the world's largest assortment of finned, gilled, and other aquatic creatures that swim within the marble-clad confines of the Shedd Aquarium. The original 1929 building houses 200 tanks. The attached multilevel Oceanarium is a spectacular space where huge mammal pools seem to blend into the lake outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. The centrally located tank is home to 500 tropical fish from placid nurse sharks to less neighborly moray eels.
Lincoln Park
Chicago's most popular neighborhood is alive day and night with people in-line skating, walking dogs, pushing strollers and driving in circles for hours looking for a place to park. It's also home to the Biograph Theater, where gangster John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in 1934. Thugs with guns have since made way for banana-packing primates. The free Lincoln Park Zoo, founded in 1868, enjoys considerable community support. Among the highlights are huge monitor lizards, Galapagos turtles, naked mole rats, fruit bats and spiders. The zoo has been a world leader in gorilla breeding, with more than three-dozen born here since 1970. If you're lucky, the chimpanzees will be drawing on poster board with crayons. Some of their works have been shown in galleries.
Wrigley Field
Seventh inning stretch and the crowd belts out a beer-soaked version of 'Take me out to the Ballgame.' There's only one place in the world you could be - Wrigley Field. Home to the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field draws tourists year round who pose under the classic neon sign over the main entrance to the baseball shrine.
This ivy-covered stadium, one of the oldest in America, is described by some as being as 'big as a pillbox'. It's an old fashioned ballpark, where the scoreboard is still changed by hand. If you don't have tickets, or don't want to see the Cubbies lose (as they're prone to do), stroll over to one of the streets next to the stadium, chat with the guys who hang around all day waiting for a ball to be hit out of the park or go sink a beer in one of the neighborhood sports bars. Notice how the surrounding flats have adapted their roofs with bleachers for watching games. Players take fans on tours of the stadium several times during the season.
Wrigley Field is north of Lincoln Park. The El goes straight to the stadium, as do several bus lines.
Sears Tower Skydeck
233 S. Wacker Dr. (enter at Jackson Blvd.)
(312) 875-9696
Since 1974 this soaring structure has been the world's tallest building. Take one of the 100 elevators to the Skydeck Observatory on the 103rd floor for a spectacular view of the city. Open daily: March-September 9 am-11 pm; October-February 9 am-10 pm. Adults $8, Senior Citizens $6, Children 5-12 $5, Children under 4 free. Family Pass $20.
Buckingham Fountain
Grant Park, Congress Pkwy. and Columbus Drive
(312) 742-7529
The popular landmark and tourist attraction operates May 1 to October 1. Visitors can enjoy a dazzling light and water show, which runs from dusk to 11pm.
Centennial Fountain
300 N. McClurg Ct., at Chicago River
(312) 751-6635
Arching across the Chicago River, Centennial Fountain operates May 1-October 1 10 am-12 midnight
John Hancock Observatory (1,127 feet)
875 N. Michigan Ave.
(312) 751-3681; 888-875-VIEW
This Michigan Avenue giant was built in 1970 with a dramatic cross-bracing, framing system. Although it is 327 feet lower than the Sears Tower, the observation deck provides a stunning view of the lake and city. One floor above the observation deck on the 95th floor, is the Signature Room, a perfect place for a cocktail and a second-to-none view of the sunset. The 94-floor observatory, more than 1,000 feet above Chicago, features an outside Skywalk, the Midwest's highest open-air experience; Windows on Chicago, which takes you on a virtual reality tour of more than 80 city sites; Soundscope 3-D "talking" telescopes that speak in four languages and create startling real sound effects; a Chicago history wall; and a theme park- style ticketing area that recreates the construction of the John Hancock Center. Open daily 9 am-midnight. Admission: Adults $8.50, seniors (62+) and children ages 5-12 $6, children 4 and under free.
New Maxwell Street Market
Canal and Roosevelt Sts.
(312) 922-3100
The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Columbus Hospital, 2520 N. Lakeview
(773) 388-7338 November 13: Feast Day of Mother Cabrini
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph St.
(312) 814-2141
Robie House Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Landmark
5757 S. Woodlawn St.
(708) 848-1976
Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this spectacular structure features 174 exquisite art glass windows and doors. Tours offered daily, as well as public programs and special events-all of which focus on Wright's legendary creativity. Managed by Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation
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