| 1. Museum of Science and Industry
The Museum of Science and Industry – the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere – offers over 800 captivating interactive exhibits including the U-505 submarine, a working coal mine, a Boeing 727 airplane, and much, much more.
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| 2. Shedd Aquarium
The Shedd Aquarium offers one of the world’s largest array of more than 8,000 aquatic mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and fish. After exploring the oceans, attendees can gaze up at the heavens in the nearby Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.
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| 3. Field Museum
The Field Museum offers exciting displays of mummies, Egyptian tombs, Native American artifacts, and dinosaur skeletons are on display. Impossible to miss among the Field Museum’s 20 million biological and anthropological specimens, is the world’s largest, most complete and most famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, affectionately named “Sue”.
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| 4. Navy Pier
Navy Pier is the city’s lakefront playground and the state’s most popular attraction, offering visitors a unique blend of family-oriented attractions. The Navy Pier has a 150-foot high Ferris wheel, a musical carousel, the Chicago Children’s Museum, Wave Swinger ride in Pier Park, a 3-D Time Escape ride, and the famed Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
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| 5. Art Institute of Chicago
Among Chicago’s world-class institutions showcasing art is the Art Institute of Chicago, whose permanent collection of paintings, drawings, photography and textiles includes the largest compilation of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works outside the Louvre. Find outstanding and thought-provoking visual art created since 1945 at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
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| 6. Millennium Park
Chicago’s Millennium Park offers 24.5 acres of green space. It contains an outdoor performing arts pavilion, indoor year-round theatre, restaurant, ice-skating rink, contemporary garden, public art, fountains, a landscaped walkway and green spaces.
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| 7. The Magnificent Mile
A shoppers paradise, the famed “Magnificent Mile” runs along Michigan Avenue from Oak Street to the Chicago River. Next to department store giants such as Marshall Field’s, Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s, are hundreds of specialty shops and boutiques offering unique products from all around the world. Oak Street, just west of Michigan Avenue, is a boutique shopper’s dream.
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| 8. Wrigley Field
If you or someone in your family loves baseball, or just the taste of peanuts and crackerjacks, no trip to Chicago is complete without a visit to Wrigley Field. Even if the hapless Cubs are never able to win a World Series, their adoring and long-suffering fans can still lay claim to one of baseball’s finest historic landmarks – Wrigley Field was built in 1914. The green ivy along the outfield, a scoreboard that is changed by hand and the best bleacher seats in baseball all make for an amazing day (or night) at the old ballgame.
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| 9. The Willis Tower and Skydeck
Standing at 1,450 feet and 110 stories high, Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. On a clear day, you can see Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, just by walking around the Skydeck. Extending beyond the skyscraper’s Skydeck on the 103rd floor, on the glass Ledge you will literally be on top of the world with the city of Chicago directly below. The Willis Tower also offers interactive and educational attractions that highlight this iconic landmark, and celebrate Chicago’s sports, architecture, pop-culture, history, food, music and people.
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| 10. The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio served as Wright’s private residence and workplace from 1889 to 1909, the first 20 years of his career, where he and his associates developed a new American architecture, the Prairie style, and designed 125 structures, including such famous buildings as the Robie House (located nearby), the Larkin Building and Unity Temple. There are guided and independent tours offered year round and a wealth of educational programs dedicated to preserving the legacy of this remarkable genius of architecture.
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