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A Kids Guide To gui PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSkid PUBLISHERSs de t PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS a o If you’re looking for a boring old grownup guidebook, skip this book! A Kids Guide to Chicago is a lively and deliciously different view of one of the most exciting cities in America with a cool map and stickers inside! PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Designed with pre-schoolers to young Chicago teens in mind, this book reveals what kids really want to know: What is that bizarre green gunk on a Chicago hot dog? Who put the Billy Goat Curse on the ? What’s the true scoop on Mrs. O’Leary’s cow?

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Copyright © 2010 by PROPERTYTwin Lights Publishers, Inc. OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright owners. All images in this f you’re looking for a boring old Whether they’re budding nuclear physi- book have been reproduced with the knowledge and prior consent of the grownup guidebook, skip this cists, brain surgeons, or plan to follow in artists concerned and no responsibility book! A Kids Guide to Chicago is basketball superstar ’s foot- is accepted by producer, publisher, or printer for any infringement of a lively and deliciously different steps, Chicago has an activity or attraction copyright or otherwise, arising from view of one of the most exciting cities in to wow them. the contents of this publication. Every America. is a fun way effort has been made to ensure that A Kids Guide to Chicago credits accurately comply with infor- PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Designed with pre-schoolers to young to learn about the Great Fire of 1871, mation supplied. teens in mind, this book reveals what kids Chicago’s World’s Fairs, the story of Juicy First published in the United States really want to know: What is that bizarre Fruit Gum and more. of America by: green gunk on a Chicago hot dog? Who The following 60 pages reveal scores of Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. put the Billy Goat Curse on the Chicago attractions from the Holocaust Museum 8 Hale Street Cubs? What’s the true scoop on Mrs. to Legoland® to the International Museum Rockport, Massachusetts 01966 O’Leary’s cow? of Surgical Science, as well as spectacular Telephone: (978) 546-7398 http://www.twinlightspub.com In simple dictionary style, packed with buildings, beautiful public spaces, and lots over 100 colorful pictures by talented of cool things to do for free. ISBN: 978-1-934907-03-0 ISBN: 1-934907-03-0 photographer Don Brown, this soft-cover Parents and grandparents, teachers and treasure showcases Chicago from A to armchair travelers will all appreciate the 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Z. Kids will discover awesome stuff, like generous coverage of this city’s history, PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS where to see a hairy tarantula as big as a geography, art, music, and culture. Kids Chicago pizza, of 100 headless and grownups alike are sure to ooh and Painting of the Pioneer Zephyr people, and ’s death bed. aah, and laugh out loud as gifted writer on page 61 used with permission They’ll find out how to meet Staley da Karen T. Bartlett takes them on a super- of artist Mike Danneman. Visit Bear, mascot for the , where size Chicago adventure, with fascinating www.railroademporium.com to purchase a copy of this painting. to get their picture taken in front of a 101- stories, quirky factoids, and a generous foot baseball bat, and where they can dig helping of silliness. up dinosaur bones or feed a butterfly.

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS & Astronomy Aquarium! Pet a penguin – A Museum: Black holes, aliens and or be one! more. What would you do if a beluga whale Ablaze! For anyone who loves stars, planets and crinkled its melon at you? You’d laugh, The of 1871: constellations, and anyone curious about we bet, because “melon” is whale-talk for Was Mrs. O’Leary’s cow guilty? black holes, space and even aliens, this is “forehead.” Baby belugas also whistle and spit. You can see them, and a gazillion There are many stories and even a song an excellent place to spend the day. Besides other sea and land creatures, at the John about a cow that kicked over a lantern in the largest telescope in the Midwest, it has G. . How about a hairy the O’Leary barn and set the hay on fire. shows and exhibits for everyone from pre- tarantula as big as a 12-inch pizza? Or an They said that the barn burned down, then PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS schoolers to grownups. orange-spotted, horned dragon moray eel, the famous wind that blows through the covered with slimy mucus? Eeeeew! Little city sent flames to other buildings. Soon, : 100 headless people. kids can put on penguin suits and see what the whole city was on fire. Since most None of the bronze people in this picture it’s like to be one. Kids and grownups of buildings were wood, the whole city was have heads. Or arms, either. The bodies all ages absolutely, positively must see the destroyed. Nobody is sure how the fire look kind of like tree trunks, don’t they? new live sea show, Fantasea. It has actors really started, but one Which is cool, because the main part of in costume, animation and virtual reality. thing is true: every a person’s body is called a trunk. You can The Shedd Aquarium is on the Museum Chicagoan knows the see this forest of people at . The Campus on Lakeshore Drive. time and date: 9 p.m., Absolutely Awesome Absolutely Awesome sculptor named this forest Agora, which is October 8, 1871. World’s Fair #1 – 1893. World’s Fair #2 – 1933. a Greek word for “gathering place.” PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSReal name: PUBLISHERSWorld’s Columbian Real PROPERTY name: OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Amazing Chicago’s Funhouse Maze: Absolutely Awesome World’s Fairs: Exposition. Exposition. You’ll laugh your head off. 1893 and 1933. The first fair celebrated the 400th anni- The second fair was Chicago’s 100th This is a crazy fun place on the . When something has more than one name versary of Christopher Columbus’ landing birthday party, and more than 30 million You can go through the Rainbow Tunnel, it can get totally confusing. So here’s the in the New World. The city was 60 years people came to see what the future might the Elevator Drop, the Big Squeeze and the scoop on Chicago’s two World’s Fairs. old then, but really it was only 22, because be like. One of the most exciting exhibits Mirror Maze, and then head over to the They’re not really called the Absolutely it had to start over after the Great Fire of was the House of Tomorrow. The buildings Psychedelic Mine Shaft and the Spinning Awesome World’s Fairs (so don’t ever write 1871. Its buildings were white, so it was of this fair were painted in bright colors, Tunnel. Stomp, spin, bounce, and get dizzy that name on a test!) but here’s an easy way called the White City. Its spectacular fair so it was called the Rainbow City. Its – and then do it all again! to remember which was which: Each one ride was the Ferris Wheel that you can see spectacular ride was the Sky Ride, with had a special color, and each one had its on page 17. More than 20 million people rocket-shaped cars for people to ride from own spectacular fair ride. visitedPROPERTY the fair. OF TWINLIGHTSone end of the PUBLISHERS fair to the other. 4 5

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Balbo Monument: A 2,000 year-old B temple column. A very surprising thing to find in the FPO BP Pedestrian Bridge center of Chicago, isn’t it? This col- !Bean Cloud Gate_0108.tif Is it a sheet metal snake or the coolest umn is from the ruins of an ancient bridge in Chicago? It’s both, kind of. This Roman temple. It was a present amazing, curving, slithering bridge crosses to this city, brought all the way , so people can walk from from Italy to celebrate the to the Daley Bicentennial first Italian Air Force flight PlazaPROPERTY sports complex. OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS across the Atlantic Ocean. It Arch Baboon? Decide for yourself! was displayed at Awesome Hey, where’s the building? It’s 50 feet tall, weighs 162 tons, and some World’s Fair #2, and now This is a very impressive front door, isn’t people say it looks like a baboon. Who stands on a pedestal in it? But what happened to the rest of the made it? Pablo Picasso, one of the most . building? Well, there was a huge building, famous artists in the history of the world. : A 101-foot-tall The Bean: Liquid mercury and steel. a long time ago. It was the Chicago Stock But here’s the interesting thing: he didn’t baseball bat. It might be the biggest bean you have ever Exchange – but it wasn’t really here in this give this a name like he usually A famous Swedish sculptor named Claes seen in your life. Its called , lovely garden. It was torn down to build a did. Some people think he was making Oldenburg likes to make really gigantic and you’ll find it in the AT&T Plaza of new one, but this arch was just too beauti- fun of Chicago by giving them a baboon. sculptures. People love his giant-size ice Millennium Park. It is 66 feet long, 33 feet ful to tear down, so it was carefully moved Go to Daley Plaza and check it out for cream cone, giant cowboy hats, and giant high, and weighs over 110 tons. They call here,PROPERTY to the Art Institute of OF Chicago. TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS yourself. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS toothbrush with giant toothpaste to match. it “The Bean” because that’s what it looks Chicago has his giant baseball bat, as tall as like. Walk all around it (under it too) to see a 10-story building. It stands outside the the city of Chicago reflected like a mirror. are standing guard. Social Security Administration Building. Imagine 300,000 paintings, statues and Bears! all kinds of other art in one place! Before Batman Returns The Chicago Bears football team, you go inside, be sure to get your picture Hey, that’s our bridge! that is. taken in front of one of the huge bronze In the movie Batman Returns, the bridge Chicago loves its football team, the Bears, lions that stand guard in front. Inside, one that connects The Narrows to Gotham winners of Super Bowl XX. Their colors of our favorite exhibits is BIGsmall, where City is Chicago’s very own Franklin Bridge! are orange and navy, and their mascot small things get big and big things get Many scenes for Batman, Spider-Man and is Staley Da Bear. They play their home small, and other magical things can happen. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS other movies were filmed in Chicago. games at . 6 7

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Billy Goat Curse Blue Angels parachute demonstrations, amazing Bulls made him one of America’s first “urban A very funny baseball story. Best air show of the summer. water skiing and boat-jumping tricks, Pro basketball superstars. planners.” He believed in big ideas, and and lots more. he once said in a speech, “Make no small When William Sianis got kicked out of the Their real name is the U.S. Navy Flight Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball plans. They have no magic to stir men’s baseball stadium for bringing his stinky Demonstration Squadron, but everybody player of all time, was a member of the blood.” goat to a game, he was so calls these daring Navy and Marine Corps Festival . Their home games are mad he said he was putting a curse on the pilots the Blue Angels. Their air shows The saying “singing the blues” started in played in the . Their colors home team, the Chicago Cubs. He said are so exciting that sometimes you have the days of slavery when life was hard. Peo- are red and black and their mascot is Butterfly Haven: 1,000 butterflies. the Cubs would never to remind yourself to breathe. The Blue . They wear black shoes ple sang songs about their problems. Every If you’ve never had a chance to get up close win a pennant or go Angels perform every August at the huge and black socks during playoff games. One summer, nearly a million people come to to a shimmering butterfly as big as a to the World Series. ChicagoPROPERTY Air and Water Show. OF Besides TWINLIGHTS the PUBLISHERS time, they decided not to wear black — the Festival in Grant Park to parakeet, go straight to The Judy Istock Most people don’t re- buzzing and booming of fighter jets flying and they lost. “,” #23, retired in hear the best blues musicians in the world. Butterfly Haven at the Peggy Notebaert ally believe in curses, up to 700 per hour, there are military The concert goes on for three days! 1999. Read more about him on page 27. but it sure seems so Nature Museum! The spectacular Blue sometimes, because so far Morpho butterfly is from the South Ameri- the Cubs have not won a Burnham, Daniel can rainforest. It’s one of 75 different spe- pennant or made it to the He drew up the Plan of Chicago. cies from around the world that flit around and rest on flowers just inches away World Series. This famous architect did such a great job from you. In the lab, you can designing Awesome World’s Fair #1 that watch caterpillars make the city of Chicago hired him to make Blackhawks® cocoons and maybe see a modern new design for the city. That Nope, not birds – it’s Chicago’s pro hockey a butterfly hatch. team.PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSBowman PUBLISHERS and Spearman: Native The ® must not have American warriors. a curse on them, because they have won What do you notice about this statue of a thirteen divisional titles and three Stan- great warrior on horseback? It looks like ® ley Cup championships. They play their he is shooting an arrow, but there is no home games at the United bow and no arrow! There’s another war- Center. One of their rior on horseback too, and he looks like sponsors is Chicago’s he’s throwing a spear. But there is no spear! famous bright yellow It’s a mystery why Ivan Mestrovic, the Lemonhead candy. sculptor, decided to leave out the weapons. Check out these great bronze statues in ® PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Grant Park. 8 9

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C People once called this seven-story build- ing the “Wonder Theatre of the World,” Century of Progress Exposition because it was the first movie theater in Which Awesome World’s Fair was this? America built like a royal palace. Check What color was the city? What was the out the grand staircase and the ceiling mu- famous fair ride? Go back to page 4 to rals. The beautiful arch looks like the fa- find out! mous Arc de Triomphe in Paris. They don’t show movies here anymore, but it’s fun to PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS dress up to see a play or show onstage at Chicago Cultural Center the Chicago Theatre. Performances! Films! Workshops! Celebrations! All free! Lighthouse: Protecting ships since 1919. Besides free music, dance and family events, the Chicago Cultural Center is The pretty red and white lighthouse with an architectural showcase. Check out the the cone-shaped tower was built for Awe- world’s largest Tiffany art glass dome, made some World’s Fair #1. It still sends its beam of 30,000 pieces of colorful glass. It’s worth out to ships as far as 24 miles away, and more than 35 million dollars! guides them into the harbor. You can get a great view of it from the Navy Pier.

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Chicago PROPERTY History Museum OF TWINLIGHTSChicago PUBLISHERS Public Library Stuff you can’t see or do anyplace After the Great Fire of 1871, the people of Yes, it really flows backwards! else in the world. Chicago wanted to start a library. They de- The 156 mile-long river used to flow from You can ride a high-wheel bicycle down cided that since the city water tank did not west to east into , but sew- a wood-paved street, see President Abra- burn down in the fire, it would be a safe, age was being dumped into the lake and ham Lincoln’s deathbed, hear the roar of fireproof location. Since that first water ruining the drinking water. So, some very the Great Chicago Fire, build a bridge, or tank, the library has grown to 79 locations smart engineers designed a lock system that catch a fly ball at Comiskey Park. And yes, and more than ten million books. If you directs the flow in the opposite direction. you can be a Chicago style-hot dog. Don’t go to the main branch, don’t forget to look If you’re here on St. Patrick’s Day, don’t believe it? Get your free Great Kids Muse- up! There’s a green gargoyle on the roof! be surprised to see that the river has been um Passport at any dyed green. It’s green in an eco-way too, PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSand go see for PUBLISHERS yourself. because the dye is safe for fish and wildlife. 10 11

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Children’s Museum: A place of Chinatown Christopher Columbus Statues CityPASS wonder at the Navy Pier. Chicago is lucky to have a large commu- Honoring Chicago’s Italian heritage. Show this to the grownups! If you always wanted to invent something, nity of Chinese heritage. If you aren’t plan- The Italian-American people of Chicago If you’re planning to see several of Chica- Chicago Children’s Museum is the place ning a trip to China this year, no problem! donated this statue by Carlo Brioschi to go’s most famous attractions, you will defi- to do it. It has all the stuff imaginable to Just visit Chinatown on Chicago’s South the city for Awesome World’s Fair #2. You nitely want a Chicago CityPASS. It will get build a flying machine or crazy gadget. Side, with its real Chinese restaurants and can see it in Grant Park. Can you find you into seriously excellent places like the Would you rather dig for dinosaur bones shops. Have your picture taken beneath other Columbus statues around town? Adler Planetarium, the Museum of Science or climb the masts to the top of a ship? Or the beautiful red Chinatown Gate. If you’re Hint: Look for a nine-foot-tall bronze one and Industry, the Aquarium and more, for be a firefighter, or explore the bottom of here during the Chinese New Year, there’s in Columbus Memorial Plaza in the Little almost half price. You can thePROPERTY ocean? All of that? No problem!OF TWINLIGHTS The a great parade. PUBLISHERS And be sure to touch the Italy neighborhood. check it out online at museum isn’t just for looking, it’s for do- Nine Dragon Wall for good luck. www.citypass.com. ing. Even grownup kids have a blast here. Clarence Buckingham Memorial Shooting water and light show. Imagine colorful jets of water shooting from this spectacular fountain, 150 feet Chicagoan: If you were born in into the sky. It happens every night, once Chicago, or live here now, that’s every hour for 20 minutes from April you!PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS to October. The splashy fountain is in the center of Grant Park. It was a gift to Here’s how you say it: “Chicago-un.” the city by a generous Chicagoan, Kate Buckingham, in of her brother, Chicago’s Harbors: 5,000 Boats. Clarence. The four seahorses at the base of the fountain symbolize the four states The string of nine harbors along Chicago’s that touch Lake Michigan. Can you name waterfront is the largest harbor system in them? Hint: One starts with the letter W, America. If you happen to be traveling one starts with the letter M, and two start around on your yacht, you can sail right up with the letter I. to many of the attractions in this book! If not, check out the water taxi on page 55. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 12 13

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Conservatories: Gardens under glass. Corn Cobs. But not really. Cow, Mrs. O’Leary’s spouting from their mouths. Some grown- Transit Authority is the second largest tran- On a cold winter day, Chicago’s conserva- Many people think these two 60-story That poor creature got blamed for some- ups like it and some don’t – but just about sit agency in the United States. Thanks, tories seem like paradise with their orchids, towers at look like ears of thing really, really bad. Find out what it every kid in the universe does. CTA, for helping to save the planet! ferns and bizarre tropical plants. Both the corn, so that’s what they call them. was on page 4. Conservatory (here) and its Now, if someone tells you they live in a CTA: Two million riders Cubbies sister, the Conservatory (on corn cob, you’ll know what they are every single day. That’s the nickname that Chicago Cubs page 22) grow plants for the parks around talking about. : baseball fans call their team. Their colors Chicago. Admission is free. Faces on a 50-foot tower Try to wrap your brain are red, white and blue. You can catch a Is it a sculpture? A fountain? A giant video around these numbers from Cubbies game at . A long screen? Yes, all of these! The crazy-cool the Chicago Transit Authority: The city PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS time ago the Cubs were called the Chicago glass block towers in Millennium Park buses make 24,000 trips a day and there White Stockings, but then that name went show giant pictures of real peoples’ faces are 144 train stations helping two million to another baseball team. Find out which (maybe even yours). The fountain is set riders get around town. Imagine if all those one on page 56. up so it looks like the people have water people were driving cars! The Chicago

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS D E F Daphne: A goddess or a tree? Elks National Veterans Memorial Ferris Wheel Many Ancient Greek myths tell about a What a magnificent building this is! How did it get such a funny name? goddess named Daphne. Some say she was The Benevolent and Protective Order of The Ferris Wheel was invented by a man being chased by the god Apollo, so her Elks of the United States of America named George W. Ferris, so he got to name mother changed her into a laurel tree to (that’s their whole name) has a million it after himself. He showed it at Awesome hide her. Dessa Kirk loves those stories, so members. Their slogan is, “Elks Care World’s Fair #1. Back then, a 20-minute she has made many Daphne sculptures. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS and Elks Share.” The Elks especially help ride cost 50 cents. The one you can ride at The Daphne Garden is at the corner of children, and the men and women who the Navy Pier is exactly like it. It now costs Roosevelt and Michigan Avenue. have fought in America’s wars. They built $6 and only lasts 7 minutes… but wait till this memorial in Chicago to honor their you see the view of the city from way up Douglas, Stephen: He beat Abraham one thousand members who died for their there! Lincoln for the Senate in 1858. country in World War I. Of course, three years later Mr. Lincoln was elected president of the United States, so it worked out just fine. Senator Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which let those territories decide for themselves PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSwhether or notPUBLISHERS to allow slavery. Mr. Doug- PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS las is buried in this impressive mausoleum with his statue on top.

DuSable, Jean Baptiste Pointe: Founder of Chicago. the DuSable Museum of African Ameri- This French/African trapper journeyed can History is the most exciting. You can to the New World from Haiti to open a explore the continent of Africa, “meet” the trading post around 1779. He became first African-American soldiers, and come Chicago’s first settler. Many places around to an African American festival. It costs town are named for him – a harbor, a just one dollar for kids age 6 to 12, and on school,PROPERTY even a dog park – butOF we thinkTWINLIGHTS Sundays you PUBLISHERScan get in free. 16 17

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS ? Ford Center for the Performing Arts turbans! There were jeweled furnishings ?? Oriental Theatre from the Far East, and even two golden Very fancy! thrones. Inside, the theater still looks like a royal palace, but now it’s one of Chicago’s This building with the long name was best places to see Broadway shows and once a movie theater so glamorous that it concerts. had golden statues, and the ushers wore

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Would you have guessed that this is a bird? : Blue stripes, white That’s what had in mind stripes and red stars. when he made this 53-foot-tall, 50-ton The blue stripes are Chicago’s great wa- steel sculpture. Chicago is full of awesome terways: Lake Michigan and the Chicago outdoor sculptures. You can see this one Field Museum of Natural History: River. The white stripes are its neighbor- in the Federal Plaza, and a real flamingo in Biggest Tyrannosaurus Rex on the hoods, the North, West and South Sides. the . planet. The first red star remembers Fort Dear- How would you like to travel through born. The second star mourns the Great Flight of Daedalus and Icarus: fourPROPERTY billion years on earth, OFfrom before TWINLIGHTS the PUBLISHERS Fire PROPERTY of 1871. The third and OF fourth TWINLIGHTS stars PUBLISHERS time of dinosaurs? You can, at the Field stand for the two great Chicago Exposi- A huge glass mosaic. Museum’s Evolving Planet. You’ll also see tions (which we love to call the Absolutely Over the front door of the 120 North gorillas, man-eating lions and best of all, Awesome World’s Fairs). LaSalle Building is a mosaic that tells Sue – the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex on the the ancient Greek story of Daedalus and planet. Well, her skeleton anyway. You can Icarus, who tried to fly by making wings go to ancient Egypt, to the snowy land of out of feathers and wax. In the story, the Eskimos, or learn about the spirit-gods Daedalus told his son Icarus not to fly too of the South Pacific. We’d need this whole close to the sun, but he did anyway. The book to tell you everything, so you just wax melted, and Icarus fell into the sea. So have to go see for yourself. Be sure to get if a grownup tells you not to fly too close a CityPass for half-price admission on this to the sun wearing wax and feather wings, and four other cool attractions. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS it’s a good idea to pay attention. 18 19

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Who are all these people? That’s Father Time standing on one side of this remarkable reflecting pool, as 100 people trudge past him on the opposite side. Father Time is the symbol of life, from newborn to old age. The sculptor, , made one of the people look just like himself. Can you find him? He’s PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSthe man with PUBLISHERS his hands behind his back. The Fountain of Time sculpture is in Wash- ington Park on Chicago’s South Side.

Four Seasons Mosaic The world-famous Russian/French artist Fountain of the Great Lakes: An easy Marc Chagall gave this beautiful mosaic to the City of Chicago. Using only glass way to remember. and stone, he created six scenes of the city. A sculptor named Lorado Taft designed an How many will you recognize? See it at artisticPROPERTY way to remember how OF the TWINLIGHTSGreat PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSthe PUBLISHERSFirst National Plaza at Dearborn and Lakes flow. This fountain at the Art Insti- Monroe Streets. tute of Chicago shows five women pour- ing water. The woman at the top is Lake Superior, because that’s the biggest of the Frisbee® Player Great Lakes. Its water flows into the others. He looks alive, doesn’t he? The other women represent Lake Michi- A very famous sculptor named J. Seward gan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Johnson loves to make sculptures that Ontario. Some people thought it was silly look exactly like real people doing every- to show women as lakes, but now it is one day things. Time Out almost looks like of Chicago’s favorite attractions. real people tossing a Frisbee® in the park. Check it out at the Presidential Towers. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 20 21

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Geocaching: Chicago rocks! Grant Park: Chicago’s front yard G If you’re a geocacher, you’ll never run out This park and its gardens on Lake Michi- H of treasures to find around the cool sites gan are so lovely that people really do call Gangsters! in this book. For those who haven’t tried it “Chicago’s front yard.” It’s a great place Hancock Observatory One of America’s most famous criminals, it yet, geocaching is a game where people to see the city skyline. It’s hard to believe You can see forever! Al Capone, caused all sorts of trouble for hide little toys and trinkets in containers that before it became a park, this area was a Well, you can see four states anyway. Chicago in the 1900s. He helped start a that you have to find by using a GPS. dump. It was filled with debris from build- Take America’s fastest elevator ride to the crime organization called The Outfit that ings burned in the Great Fire of 1871. observation area on the 94th level of the was involved in gambling, beer and Now there are pretty bridges and jogging John Hancock Building. You’ll know how Golden Lady whiskey bootlegging, and murder. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS paths, lots of statues and monuments, and Spider-Man must feel climbing up the side Back then, a lot of people called Some people say this beautiful lady with the beautiful Clarence Buckingham Memo- of a building. You can even get your pic- it “The Capone Gang.” the flowing robe looks like the Statue of rial Fountain, which you already know ture taken in a trick shot that makes you Al Capone spent several Liberty, even though the Statue of Liberty about. There’s also the Art Institute, the look braver than Spider-Man. On summer years in prison at is four times taller. The Statue of Liberty Field Museum, and the Shedd Aquarium. nights, it’s also a great place to watch the Alcatraz. He is buried holds a torch in one hand and a writing In Grant Park you can go ice skating and Navy Pier fireworks. in Hillside, near Chicago. tablet in the other. “The Golden Lady,” roller skating, play tennis or miniature who is covered in real gold, holds a globe golf, or hang out on the lawn for a free with an on top in one hand and a music concert. Grant Park is where a Garfield Park Conservatory staff in the other. Her official name isThe million people showed up for President Help a bee pollinate a flower. Republic, but most people around town Obama’s 2008 election night party. think Golden Lady suits her better. See her If you always wanted to climb a giant PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSin PUBLISHERS and decide for yourself. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS bean, slide down a vine, or help a giant bee Great Lakes: The largest group of pollinate a giant flower, this is the place. freshwater lakes on earth. The Garfield Park Conservatory is a huge Chicago sits on the banks of Lake Michi- garden under glass that grows plants all gan. Can you name the other lakes? Which year, even when there’s snow outside. Does is the biggest one? it look like a big glass haystack to you? Hint: Go back to Admission is always free. Kids love Wild Fountain of the Wednesdays, when they have all kinds of Great Lakes on family adventures, like scavenger hunts page 20. and nature projects. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 22 23

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS : Holocaust Museum: The importance ones that took millions of people to Hot Dog, Chicago Style: Very important hand shaking. of remembering. the concentration camps. The Hall of No ketchup, ever! Remembrance is a youth exhibit espe- That is definitely George up This museum has no dinosaurs or play Chicago is famous for many cially for 9 to 12 year olds. Even though there, but who are those two men shak- areas. It’s about remembering the saddest things, but nothing more than it is sad, it has an important purpose. ing hands with him? Well, it’s Mr. Hyam and most horrible period in world history, its amazing all-beef dog on a People walk into this museum through Salomon, a great patriot who raised piles of and honoring the people who were killed poppy seed bun. Load it up with the “dark side” and come out on the “light money to help win the Revolutionary War, in the Holocaust. The Holocaust really bright green sweet pickle relish, side.” They want to make sure nothing like and Mr. Robert Morris, the financial leader Museum and Education Center has many sliced tomatoes, onions, sport peppers, a this ever happens again, and they feel hope of the Thirteen Colonies. When you figure outstanding photos and exhibits. There’s a deli pickle spear or some cucumber slices, for the future. out that the money these two men raised is PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS real 20th-century German rail car like the and good ole yellow mustard (but not worth about 50 billion dollars today, you that fancy Dijon mustard). And never, ever would understand why President Washing- should you put ketchup on a Chicago-style ton is shaking their hands. Heald Square is hotdog. in the Michigan-Wacker Historic District. Hyde Park: Malia and Sasha lived here. Hemingway, Ernest Hershey’s Chicago World-famous fisherman and author: Jolly Ranchers in your ears? Hyde Park is a neighborhood on Chi- cago’s South Side. It’s also the name of the Born in Chicago. Just kidding! Only dumb people would put huge park where Awesome World’s Fair real candy in their ears, but at Hershey’s The author of The Old Man and the Sea #1 took place. The Obama girls grew up Chicago store you can get Jolly Rancher (and some of the other greatest books of in the Hyde Park neighborhood before PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS earphones, PROPERTY Bubble Yum earphones OF TWINLIGHTSand PUBLISHERS all time) was born in a pretty house on they moved to the White House. Nearby even York Peppermint Pattie earphones. Oak Park Avenue. It is a Queen Anne style are many beautiful mansions, museums Of course you can also get Hershey Kisses house that his grandfather built. When he and theaters, and the University of Chi- and other famous chocolate things to eat got older, Ernest was called Papa Heming- cago. Hyde Park once was a really tough – and if you buy something yummy at the way. He lived in many places around the neighborhood, but the city and businesses bakery, like a cupcake topped with Reese’s world, including Cuba, Paris (France), and worked to make it a great place to visit Pieces, maybe the “Hershey-izer” will sing Key West (Florida). But Chicago was his and live. Hyde Park has bicycle and jog- for you. Did you know there really was a first home. ging paths, picnic spots, tons of statues and Mr. Hershey? He especially loved Chicago monuments, and exciting outdoor festi- because he discovered chocolate-making vals. Be sure to check out the view of Lake machines at Awesome World’s Fair #1. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Michigan from Promontory Point. 24 25

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Illinois and Michigan Canal: Jordan, Michael: The stats. Kwanusila: A real totem pole. I 96 miles of scenery. J If you’re a serious “Air Jordan” fan, you K What is a 40-foot-tall totem pole, The Illinois and Michigan canal was cut need to know the stats, so here they are: carved by the chief of the Jackson Park: Playgrounds, beach, Kohl Children’s Museum Ice Skating through beautiful woodlands for boats to Born February 17, 1963. Height: 6'6"; indigenous Kwagiulth tribe in golf course and gardens. Build your own house! Fun and free! get from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi shoe size: 13. Played basketball for the Canada, doing in Chicago? The original was a gift to the Love to ice skate? Chicago has free out- River. When railroads were built, the canal Are you in the mood for a picnic or a bike University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Yes, at the Hands On House, you get to city from James Kraft, founder door rinks in several parks. The two most wasn’t needed so much. So the National ride? Jackson Park is the perfect spot! The Tar Heels. Round One draft pick for the design your own house. You pick the of Kraft Foods. It stood here in impressive are the Olympic-sized rink at Park Service took it over, and now people beautiful park was named for President An- Chicago Bulls, 1984; joined the team as a materials, build the walls, and put on the Lincoln Park for 45 years. It was Park in the Hyde Park can go hiking, camping, kayaking, horse- drew Jackson. It was designed by the two shooting guard. Rookie of the Year, 1985. roof. Then you can paint it, carpet it, and returned to the tribe in 1985. neighborhood, and the spectacular rink at backPROPERTY riding, fishing, snowmobiling, OF TWINLIGHTS and world-famous PUBLISHERS landscape architects (Freder- Six NBA Championships (1991, 1992, put bushes in the yard. Would you rather This one is an exact copy. The Millennium Park. The smaller rinks, like lots more. ick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux), who 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998). Five-time NBA work on cars? You can change tires, fix base is a sea monster. Above that the one at Daley Bicentennial Plaza, may designed New York’s Central Park. MVP; six-time NBA Finals MVP, and 14 the engine and even drive through the car is a man riding a whale, and on be less crowded. time NBA All-Star. Olympic Gold Medals, wash, and a million other things at the 1984 and 1992. Sports Illustrated Sports- Kohl Children’s Museum. Sweet! top is a thunderbird, which in man of the Year, 1991. ESPN “Greatest the indigenous language is kwanusila. North American Athlete of the 20th Century,” 1999. Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.

Juicy Fruit Gum: Just for soldiers? PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSThat’s PUBLISHERS true; Chicago’s own Wrigley Com- pany makes Juicy Fruit gum (also lots of other chewing gums, plus Skittles and Starbursts). During World War II, they had only enough supplies to make a small amount of gum, so every bit of it went to the United States Armed Forces. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 26 27

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Lake Michigan Land of Lincoln: L Thanks, Ice Age! America’s 21st state. During the Great Ice Age, massive sheets of The name Illinois The ‘L’: Red Line, Brown Line; Pink, ice (glaciers) moved across North America, comes from the Blue and Yellow Line. flattening mountains and carving out French word for land And don’t forget the green, purple and valleys. They finally melted, making five and the Algonquin orange lines! No, it’s not a box of cray- ginormous lakes. But there was no such word for warrior. So Illinois is the “Land ons – it’s the color map that helps people word as “ginormous” when the lakes were of Warriors.” Maybe you can guess that get around Chicago on the ‘L’ – America’s named, so they’re called the Great Lakes. our state slogan is “Land of Lincoln,” third-busiestPROPERTY rapid transit system.OF TheTWINLIGHTS fast Lake Michigan PUBLISHERS is the largest body of fresh because it was the home of our 16th trains have been running north and south, water in the United States. It has every- president, Abraham Lincoln. But did you east and west for more than 100 years. thing for a great vacation: beaches, fishing, know we have two other native presidents? Pick up your route map and go! sailing, state parks, and wildlife. Chicago is Ulysses S. Grant, #18, and Ronald Reagan, at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan. #40 were also born in Illinois. Chicago is the largest city in Illinois.

Legoland® Not just for kids. If you didn’t already love Legos® before you got to Legoland®, you’ll definitely PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSlove PUBLISHERS them by the time you leave. At the Legoland Discovery Center you can ride a dragon made completely of Legos. You can explore a Lego jungle and a Lego castle. You’ll see Harry Potter and Batman made of Legos, and even the city of Chi- cago, made of one and a half million Lego pieces. Then, if you like, you can build your own Lego invention. Legoland is in the Streets of Woodfield Shopping Center. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 28 29

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Lincoln Park Zoo Marshall Field’s Clock: Still Gorillas and penguins and bears, M keeping time. oh my! “The Great Clock” has been hanging there, It started with just two swans more than : Chicago’s outside the old Marshall Field & Com- 100 years ago. Now it is home to more glamorous avenue. pany’s Store, since 1897. The than 1,200 animals from big gorillas to Fancy hotels, fine stores, , people of Chicago were very proud when creepy crawlies. At the Pritzker Family beautiful trees and flowers, and tons of the famous artist, Norman Rockwell, did a Children’s Zoo and the Farm-in-the-Zoo, great restaurants: that’s what you’ll see painting of it in 1945 for the cover of the even the smallest guests are invited to feed along this one mile-long section of Michi- Saturday Evening Post. Marshall Field’s is PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSthe cows and PUBLISHERSmeet goats and chickens. gan Avenue. With cool places like the now Macy’s, but the beloved clock is still The zoo is open year round and it’s free. Lego store, American Girl Place, Hershey’s ticking along. Chicago, ESPN Zone, and the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Magnificent Mile is definitely not just for grownups.

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Lincoln Park: Chicago’s biggest. At more than a thousand acres, this is the largest public park in Chicago’s Park Dis- trict. It was named in memory of President Lincoln. It has gardens, sports fields, a golf course and beach – and best of all, the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, and an outdoor stage for summertime performances. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 30 31

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Michigan Avenue Bridge: Connecting the skyscrapers. Twice a week in springtime, the draw- bridge section in the center of this cool- looking bridge is raised up to let lots of people sail their boats out of storage docks and into Lake Michigan for the summer. Twice a week in autumn, they open again so the sailboats can sail back in to hiber- PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS nate for the winter. This “sailboat parade” is a very pretty sight. If you absolutely, positively need to know exactly what kind of bridge this is, it’s a double-leaf, double-deck, fixed counterweight trunnion bascule. You can stand on the observation deck and watch the giant gears work.

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You can tell what season it is by the colors Some people call the National Museum of Midwest that light up this huge white building at Mexican Art the hidden jewel of Chicago What exactly is it? . and Dakota,

night. At Halloween it lights up orange; museums. Through its wonderful collec- Chicago is the biggest city in the American South Ohio, Dakota, North

on St. Patrick’s Day it’s green, and at tion of paintings and textiles, pottery and Midwest, but what exactly is the Midwest? Christmas it’s red and green. “The Mart,” sculpture, as well as its music and dance Nebraska, Missouri,

It’s the middle section of the United which takes up two whole city blocks, is performances, you will get to know the States that covers 12 states. How Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, filled with everything it takes to design and Mexican people from earliest history to

many can you name? Turn the furnish a house. Crossing the river in front today. Each spring the museum puts on page upside down to see the Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, of The Mart is the famous red a free family festival, Dia del Nino, and answers. Bridge. everyPROPERTY Sunday admission is free.OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 32 33

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Millennium Park Miro Sculpture: The Sun, Mummies! (But no daddies) Just plain gorgeous. The Moon, and One Star. Do you dare enter the tomb of Unis-Ankh? Museum of Science and Industry It would be hard to decide what Many of Chicago’s sculptures and Have you ever been close to an Egyptian Interactive to the max. partPROPERTY of Chicago is the most OF impres- TWINLIGHTSmonuments PUBLISHERS were made by the most mummy, PROPERTY or traveled down theOF Nile TWINLIGHTS River? PUBLISHERS This museum not only is interactive, it sive – the skyscrapers, the shoreline of important artists in the history of the At the Field Museum you can do these invented interactive! You can test, touch, Lake Michigan, or the green spaces world. The City of Chicago paid things. You’ll peek in at everyday life in and experience the most important inven- – but Millennium Park would be famous Spanish “surrealist” Joan Miro Ancient Egypt, home of Cleopatra, the tions of the past and things inventors are right up there at the top of the list. half a million dollars to make this mythical Cat Goddess and more! Find out working on right now that don’t even exist You’ve got your Bean (page 7), your sculpture when he was almost 90 more about the Field Museum on page 18. yet. Like what? Well, imagine an instant- (page 41), your years old. Nearby is a sculpture by message hug that you can actually feel! Crown Fountain (page15), the his friend Picasso (you can go to Since it’s the largest science museum in the ice rink (page 26), and the BP page 6 for a look). entire Western Hemisphere, there’s no way Bridge (page 6), plus all those you can do all the experiments, watch all statues and monuments. the shows, and see all 35,000 artifacts in PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS one visit. But you can make a good start! 34 35

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Nobel Peace Prize Nuclear Reactor N President Obama Chicago and the atom bomb. O wasn’t Chicago’s first! The first atomic bomb was tested in the © ® The Nobel Foundation Naper Settlement: A Conestoga desert of New Mexico, but a lot of the re- Obama, Barack: 44th President of the wagon, geocaching and more. The first American woman to win the search and testing of the first nuclear reac- United States. Imagine growing up in a pioneer family Nobel Peace Prize was Jane Addams, from tor took place at the . moved to Chicago after 175 years ago, riding over mountains and Chicago. Miss Addams and Ellen Starr Before and after World War II, several Uni- graduating from Harvard Law School. through rivers in your Conestoga wagon Gates were social welfare workers. They versity of Chicago scientists tried to warn He was first elected to the Illinois Senate, to settle in the wilderness of the Midwest. started , to help poor and sick the government about the horrible dangers and then to the U.S. Senate, representing Come see what life was like for the Naper PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS people, especially women, children, and of using nuclear energy for weapons. This Illinois. On election night, 2008, more family without running water, electricity, European immigrants. Hull House still sculpture by sits on the exact than 1 million people stood in Grant or the Internet. Meet the blacksmith, the carries on the important work they began. spot where the nuclear reactor was built. Park to hear President Obama’s victory stone carver, and other village characters, speech, which began with the words, and check out the replica of “Hello, Chicago.” Fort Payne, built for protec- tion during the Blackhawk Indian War. Naper Village O’Hare International Airport: has a really fun geocaching Second busiest in the world. program, too. The big prize is More than 200,000 travelers pass through a Naper medallion. this airport every single day, and that Navy Pier: What would you like to Ness, Eliot: Enemy of Al Capone. includes a whole lot of kids. So the PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSdo today? PUBLISHERS Al PROPERTYCapone was one of Chicago’s OF worst TWINLIGHTS “bad PUBLISHERS Chicago Children’s Museum created You have to plan carefully because there are guys” ever (remember him from page 22?) Kids on the Fly, which has cool airplane so many choices! Shall you ride the Ferris The good guys who were always chasing and helicopter Wheel? Take the high speed Transporter him were United States Treasury agents models to play FX to the moon? Sail in Lake Michigan nicknamed “The Untouchables.” Eliot on, and even a aboard the spectacular Tall Ship Windy ? If Ness was the leader of The Untouchables. control tower. you love IMAX movies, Navy Pier has the After many years, Eliot Ness finally helped largest IMAX screen in Chicago. We are to put Al Capone in jail. not making this up: it is six stories high! The Chicago Children’s Museum is here too, and so many restaurants you’ll go crazyPROPERTY trying to decide. Have OF a blast! TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 36 37

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Old Water Tower Oprah! the Awesome World’s Fair #1. Inside the It did not save Chicago. America’s rich and famous TV star, Oprah P Palace of Fine Arts were 10,000 pieces of American art. More than 27 million people Even though it was built for fire protec- Winfrey, is from Chicago, and her broad- came to see the White City, which was way tion, this 154-foot tall water tower could casting studio is Harpo on West Washing- Palace of Fine Arts more magnificent than Oz. Dorothy and not save the city in The Great Chicago ton Boulevard. Sometimes Oprah gives It really does look like a palace from her friends Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow Fire of 1871. But because it was built of huge street parties in Chicago and every- ancient Rome or Greece, doesn’t it? That’s would be even more amazed at the won- and stone, it was one of the only body is invited for free. exactly what the architects wanted when ders inside, because it’s now the Museum buildings that didn’t burn down. Have you they built the fabulous White City for of Science and Industry. ever seen a White Castle restaurant? The Oriental Institute Museum: Mysteries founder of White Castle supposedly got PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS of the Ancient Near East. the idea for the castle design from this very water tower. The 16-foot-long human-headed winged bull and the 17-foot-tall statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun are worth O’Leary’s Fire the trip to this museum. It might get pretty Truck Tours: weird, too, because in the Kid’s Corner, “Hottest Tour there’s even an exhibit that shows you how in Town.” they prepared a mummy for the afterlife. When Captain The museum has thousands of exhibits George retired from Engine Company about the ancient Near East, which in- 13, he missed his fire trucks so badly he cluded ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, decidedPROPERTY to buy one for himself. OF So TWINLIGHTS now, PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSPersia, PUBLISHERS and more. everyone can hop aboard a real antique fire engine or chief’s truck and let Captain George show you Chicago’s most interest- ing sights. You’ll even stop at a fire station or two. Reservations are required, weather permitting.

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Okay, so what’s a Prairie Chicken? You already know about the Butterfly Haven (page 9), but many, many other creatures live here, too. Like Beauregard Beaver, Bogart PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Box Turtle, and Perry Prairie Chicken. Do you like spiders? This museum collection has 200 different kinds, and tons of other stuff, plus craft projects, field trips and sleepovers with the butterflies.

Pillar of Fire It all started right here. The people of Chicago believe that this is PROPERTYthe exact spot where the GreatOF FireTWINLIGHTS of PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 1871 started. Now, instead of a wooden Pizza! Deep dish, Chicago style. Pritzker Pavilion shed at the corner of Dekoven and Jeffer- Yes, that yummy deep-dish pizza, with all Seriously Awesome concerts. son Streets, there’s a solid brick building the cheese and lots of Italian sausage, was Imagine 11,000 people gathered on this where they train firefighters and police invented right here in Chicago. A football lawn for a concert under the stars. What a officers. How perfect is that! These bronze star named Ike Sewell came up with the party! And the party gets bigger each year flames, calledPillar of Fire, remind the idea at his restaurant called Pizzeria Uno. during Park Music Festival, with firefighters every day of their important The restaurant is now called Uno Chicago free concerts all summer long. Do you mission. Grill, and its famous deep dish pizza is think the pavilion looks like a giant birth- still the star of the menu. Want to know day bow with ribbons of steel? the recipe secret? If you promise not to tell anyone, here it is: just mix some cornmeal PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS in with the flour for the dough! 40 41

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Quick Factoids Foul Ball! Q Betcha didn’t know… It used to be against professional baseball R rules to let fans keep foul or homerun balls Questions and Answers Cracker Jacks, hamburgers and if they caught them in the stands. But River Walk (and cycle too) other good stuff. Wrigley Field changed the rules and was When Chicagoans want to remind them- People got their first taste ever, of Aunt the first stadium to allow it. selves just what a great city they have, they Q u e s t i o n s answers Jemima Syrup, Quaker Oats, Cream of go for a stroll, or a bicycle ride, or a boat find the answers! find the questions! Wheat, diet soda, and Shredded Wheat The Loop is not a trick to tie your shoe. ride along the River Walk. There are res- cereal right here in Chicago, at Awesome Back when Chicago was a smaller town, taurants and benches to rest and enjoy the • What is the secret ingredient in PROPERTYFind the mystery questions OF in thisTWINLIGHTS World’s Fair #1.PUBLISHERS And millions of people The Loop was an actual circle of The ‘L’ great views of the skyscrapers, bridges, and Chicago Pizza dough? (page 41) book! went crazy for that strange meat sandwich train tracks that ran around the city. Now the Chicago River. between two buns: the hamburger! that Chicago is a big city, The Loop just • What never, ever goes on a Chicago Page 4 means “downtown.” style hot dog? (page 25) Answer: It was accused of starting the Great Fire of 1871. But it really • What was the Billy Goat Curse? didn’t. (page 8) Page 50 • Who is the greatest basketball player Answer: They make half a billion a in history, and what size shoe does he year! wear? (page 27) Page 19 Garlic? Are you kidding me? Rookery: A hideaway for pigeons. • What bizarre thing happens to the PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSAnswer: WhenPUBLISHERS a certain bird eats The PROPERTY name “Chicago” came OFfrom the TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS The word “rookery” means “nesting place Chicago River once a year? (page 46) pink shrimp, its feathers turn pink. Algonquin Indian word meaning “garlic for birds.” That’s exactly what this grand field.” old building became by accident. Way back • Where is the biggest Tyrannosaurus Page 14 Rex skeleton on the planet? (page 18) in the old days, there were cattle stables Answer: Wisconsin, Michigan, Lincoln Logs nearby, so thousands of pigeons loved nest- • Where can you see a crocodile-headed Illinois, and Indiana The world’s most famous architect, Frank ing in the eaves and hanging out on the dinosaur? (page 47) Page 13 Lloyd Wright (you’ll meet him on page roof. When the stables closed down and 58), had a little boy named John, who the building was redesigned with a fancy • Where can you pet a penguin? Answer: Southpaw, of course! grew up to be an architect too. But John glass ceiling, the pigeons went away. But (page 5) was most famous for a very special toy he people still remember, and they still call it • What kind of hawks like to play on invented, called Lincoln Logs. Wouldn’t he The Rookery. If you happen to be in the the ice? (page 8) be surprised to learn that, almost 100 years neighborhood, look carefully. Can you find PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSlater, kids still PUBLISHERS love his invention! the two pigeons carved into the archway? 42 43

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Rosenberg Fountain : Does it really scrape Spider Dan: A real life A nice story. S the sky? Spider-Man. Once upon a time, a little boy was trying Of course not, but it sure looks that In 1981, a rock climber named Dan to make extra money to help his family Schooner way from the ground! Back 125 years Goodwin made himself a Spider- by delivering newspapers. When he was You might feel like a Pirate of the Carib- ago, most buildings were no more Man costume and scaled the , thirsty, nobody on his way offered him bean when you scale the rigging up to the than two or three stories tall. An engi- just like the movie character Spider-Man. a drink. “One day,” he thought, “I will crow’s nest of this awesome three-story neer named William Jenny realized that Back then, it was called the Sears Tower, build a water fountain where anybody can schooner at the Chicago Children’s Mu- a “skeleton” of steel could hold up many and it was the tallest building on Earth. He drink even if they have no money.” When seum. Grownups can climb too. It’s called Shedd Aquarium more stories. His first skyscraper was only braved dangerous wind and slippery glass he grew up, he made lots of money and ThePROPERTY Kovler Family Schooner OF after TWINLIGHTSthe very Tots on Tuesdays. PUBLISHERS ten stories tall! Now, Chicago has tons of to make the climb in 7 hours. He got in that’s exactly what he did. The fountain is generous family who have contributed Hey, if you’re age 2, 3, 4 or 5, Tuesday is skyscrapers, some are ten times that high! big trouble with the fire department. He designed to look like a Greek temple. The much to the city. Find out more about the your most special day at the Shedd Aquar- How tall do you think skyscrapers might wrote a book called Skyscraperman, explain- goddess on the top, holding a pitcher, is Chicago Children’s Museum on page 12. ium. Of course, every other day is terrific be 125 years from now? ing why he climbs tall buildings. Hebe, “cup bearer for the gods.” Maybe too. Check out Aquarium on page 5. you would like to have a drink from Mr. Soldier Field: Smaller and smaller. Spirit of Music and SummerDance. Joseph Rosenberg’s fountain and think how it would make him smile. This stadium was named to honor Ameri- For thirty-three nights and ten Sunday af- cans who died in wars. Instead of getting ternoons each summer, the Spirit of Music bigger and bigger, this stadium got smaller Garden in Grant Park is filled with music on purpose, so the fans could get closer to and dance. More than 40 different kinds their football team, the Chicago Bears. It is of bands perform on stage, from African PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS now the smallest stadium in the National beat to square dances and swing. There Football League. are free lessons and anyone can get up and dance. The beautiful statue is called Spirit Southpaw: Mascot of the Chicago of Music. White Sox. In baseball terms, a southpaw is a left- handed pitcher. This Southpaw is left- handed, and also green and furry. Some fans say it’s a sock. What kind of creature is that? If you’re planning to go to a game and ask ahead of time, maybe Southpaw PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS will come visit you at your seat! 44 45

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Suchomimus: A crocodile-headed dinosaur. If you were tromping around in the swamp during the Cretaceous period (more than 100 million years ago), the last creature you would want to meet would be, a huge, spiky crocodile-headed dinosaur with ginormous claws. And it would be even worse if you were a fish, because you would PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS have been his dinner! The Suchomimus bones were discovered in deepest Africa by a famous Chicago dinosaur hunter, Dr. Paul Sereno. Now kids can go on a dino- saur hunt and dig up Suchomimus bones at the Chicago Children’s Museum. You might even see Dr. Sereno himself, because he teaches at the University of Chicago!

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St. Patrick’s Day Standing Lincoln Chicago River turns green. In Lincoln Park. Each year, on the Saturday before St. Chicago is famous for its hundreds of pub- Patrick’s Day, almost half a million people lic monuments, statues, and memorials. (most of them wearing green) line up to One of the oldest is this statue of President see the parade up Columbus Drive and Abraham Lincoln about to give a speech. to check out the Chicago River, which You can tell that he has just gotten up from “magically” turns a bright Irish green. his chair, and you almost feel that in any second you will hear his voice. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 46 47

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS T The Trib: The newspaper. With its spires and gargoyles, this spectacu- lar skyscraper looks more like a French ca- thedral than a newspaper office. And wait till you hear about the rocks. The builders PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS stuck rocks from all over the world into its limestone wall. There are fragments from Abraham Lincoln’s home, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the Coliseum in Rome, Italy; the old Berlin Wall, the Alamo, the Great Wall of China, and the Taj Mahal in . There’s also a piece of rock from every state in the United States and every continent, and even a moon rock on loan from NASA.

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Trump Tower Trunnion Bascule? U-505: World War II German Really, really, really tall. Why, it’s a seesaw bridge, of course! U submarine. This is a brand new hotel and condomin- Though it looks sort of like a roller coaster, The United States Navy captured this ium tower built by gazillionaire Donald the Cortland Street Bridge was built more U.S. Cellular Field: White Sox German submarine, lurking deep in the Trump. The fun thing about this building than 100 years ago to rise up and let big home field. Atlantic Ocean, on June 4th, 1944. It was is that it looks like a different shape from boats through. It’s called a trunnion bas- You’ll say “Take me out to the ball game” full of top-secret military information each side. The tower was going to be 150 cule bridge, and it was the first one ever when you find out about this stadium’s that helped America and the Allies during stories tall, but after September 11, Trump built in the United States. Now there way-cool kids’ section called Comcast World War II. The submarine was going decided to make it only 96. Still, it will be are more than 35 of them crossing the to be destroyed, but the people of Chicago Fundamentals. (FUN-damentals, get it?). the tallest residential building in the world. ChicagoPROPERTY River, which makes OF this cityTWINLIGHTS the There are baseball PUBLISHERS clinics, batting cages, raised the money to buy it, and gave it to “movable bridge capital of the world.” practice base running and pitching areas. the Museum of Science and Industry. You have to wear regular athletic shoes (no Twinkies® Crocs or flip flops) to play. On really hot Started with Banana Cream days, you can cool off in the misty Rain Room near section 107 and 537. Before your grandparents were born, a Chicago area company called Hostess Bakery made the first Twinkie®. It was filled with banana cream. But during World War II, they had a very hard time getting bananas, so they switched to PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSvanilla-flavored PUBLISHERS cream. How PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS many Twinkies® do they make every year? You will have to look at the second Answer on page 42 to find out.

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PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Union Station Urbs in Horto Wow, this is a REAL train station! Urbs in whato??? V Like several other Chicago buildings, this The official motto of Chicago isUrbs in Venetian Night: A seriously sparkly place looks more like a palace than a train horto. That’s Latin for city in a garden. This boat parade. station. The Great Hall has a pink marble makes perfect sense, doesn’t it, for a city floor and 18 Greek columns. And just look with 552 parks and thousands more acres Everybody loves a parade! This one is on up at that atrium! No wonder some people of parklands? the water at night, with twinkly lights and call Union Station one of the greatest in- music. First, there’s a magical procession door spaces in the United States. of boats along Lake Michigan, and then PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS there’s a huge, spectacular fireworks show. And… you get to stay up past your bed- United Center: Blackhawks and Bulls. time! What kinds of creatures are Blackhawks and Bulls? You can find the answer on pages 8 and 9. But here’s a clue: United Center, where they hang out, is the largest sports arena in the U.S. Besides sports, it’s the perfect place to see big concerts and shows like the Ringling Brothers and Bar- num & Bailey Circus, and Disney on Ice. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Universities There are four really big universities and several smaller ones here. They have more Victory Monument: African American than 100,000 students and 75 sports teams soldiers. in all. If you go to DePaul University This statue stands in the section of Chi- you’re a Blue Demon. If you go to North- cago’s South Side named Bronzeville. It western University you’re a Wildcat. The honors African American National Guards- University of Chicago has the Maroons; men who served with the Eighth Regiment and the University of Illinois, Chicago has during World War II. Bronzeville, which the Flames. Can you guess where they got is also called Black Metropolis, has been a the idea for the name, “Flames?” Right! very important neighborhood in Chicago’s The Great Chicago Fire! PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS African American history. 52 53

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 2,900 Water Taxi names. W Like a bus, but loads more fun. People come from all over the United For just a couple of dollars, kids can hop States to find the names of their friends, Washington Park: aboard a boat called a water taxi to get to brothers, sisters, parents, aunts, uncles, Lawnmower sheep? cool places like museums, the Ferris Wheel cousins, and grandparents, that are listed This large park in Bronzeville at the Navy Pier, Chinatown, the parks, on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. These has many playgrounds and sports areas, and festivals. Grownups pay a little more, brave people died for their country and and also summertime festivals. A hundred but not much more. You can also take a some were missing in action. Visit the me- years ago, they didn’t have big rider mow- water taxi tour, where a guide points out morial at and State Street. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS ers to keep the lawns trimmed, so they let lots of the places found in this book. Of sheep graze on the grass. The DuSable Mu- course, it’s much too cold to do this in seum of African American History is here winter, so the water taxis start in the spring in Washington Park, and so is that cool and end in the fall. Fountain of Time sculpture that you saw on page 20. Can you guess which United States president this park was named after?

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Waterfowl Lagoon One-legged flamingos? Don’t feel sorry for all the pretty pink birds that look like they have only one leg. They just like to keep the other one tucked up under their body to stay warm. You can see flamingoes, swans, and geese on the Water- fowl Lagoon in the Lincoln Park Zoo. Why are flamingos pink, anyway? Take a guess PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS and see if you’re right on page 42. 54 55

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS White City Half a billion dollars! That’s how much it cost to build the dream city of the future for Chicago’s Awesome World’s Fair #1. Just as everything was emerald green in the “Emerald City” in the movie, The Wizard of Oz, these build- ings were all covered in white plaster and painted white. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Willis Tower Skydeck White Sox: World Do you dare stand out there? Series champs. If you were brave enough to stand on the Most cities in the observation deck at the 94th level of the United States have no John Hancock Building (page 23), you are major league baseball now ready to graduate to the Willis Tower. teams at all, so Chicago fans feel pretty It used to be called the Sears Tower. It is special to have two. The White Sox are the tallest building in the United States WaterWays the South Siders, and the Cubs (on page and has the highest observation deck in Splash, get wet, be a scientist. 15) are the North Siders. The White Sox the Western Hemisphere. In the elevator If you always wondered how they made colors are black, white, and silver. Do you are huge flat screen monitors that make thePROPERTY crazy Crown Fountain onOF page TWINLIGHTS 15, or PUBLISHERS remember PROPERTY the mascot’s name? OF (Hint: TWINLIGHTS it’s on you PUBLISHERS feel like you’re blasting right into the beautiful on page 45). The team used to be called the space. Your speed will be 1600 feet per page 14, WaterWays at the Chicago Chil- White Stockings. That was a pretty good minute! When you step into one of the dren’s Museum is your kind of place. Oh name back 100 years ago, when people glass boxes on the 103rd floor, the people yes, you will get wet, when you splash, called socks “stockings.” But now we call on the sidewalk below will look like ants, squirt, and work with different kinds of them socks, so now they are the White and the cars will look like toys! water systems like water wheels, pumps, Sox. and . You even get to try out Windy City: Chicago’s nickname. locks like the ones that raise and lower Chicago is not even one of the windiest the water level in Lake Michigan. Better cities in the United States, but that’s what bring along an extra t-shirt to change into people have been calling the city for more afterward! PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS than a century. 56 57

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS World’s Columbian Exposition Wrigley: The chewing gum people. Wrigley Field: Home of the Cubs. Which Awesome World’s Fair was this? Actually, Mr. Wrigley didn’t invent chew- This is the second oldest ballpark in Major What color was the city? What was the ing gum. He was a soap salesman who had League Baseball. (Boston’s Fenway Park is famous fair ride? Flip back to page 4 to the great idea to give away a stick of gum the oldest). It was named for the chewing find out! to anybody who bought his soap. Then he gum Wrigleys, who owned the field and decided to make his own gum instead of the Cubs too. Check out the flag waving buying it from somebody else. Today, it from center field after a game. If it’s a blue Wright, Frank Lloyd: Great American takes farmland bigger than 30,000 football W, the Cubs won the game. If it’s a white architect. fields to grow all the mint they need to L, the Cubs lost. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS“What? A house PUBLISHERS with no basement and make their mint-flavored gums! This beau- no attic? No paint? Windows in the roof? tiful white skyscraper is Wrigley’s world Glass walls? What a crazy architect!” That’s headquarters. what people said when Frank Lloyd Wright moved to Chicago and started design- ing strange houses. But it turned out that people loved his work and paid him lots of money to design many buildings in Chicago and around the world. The Robie House in this picture is one of his designs. You can take the Design Detectives Family WPROPERTYonderland Express: T rains,OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Tour PROPERTY of his home near Chicago. OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS gingerbread houses, and more. Every year, right after Thanksgiving, the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe turns into a magical holiday place. There are gingerbread houses, decorated trees, ice- skating, and snowshoeing. A miniature train runs all around the tracks. You can have breakfast or supper with Santa, or hot chocolate with Mrs. Claus. The Wonder- land Express is only 20 miles from Chica- go, which is about 3,400 miles closer than the North Pole! PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 58 59

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Yummy! . X Three million people show up every sum- Z mer for the world’s largest food festival. X Braces: Monster arms. Taste of Chicago is a ten-day summer Zephyr People are always asking, “What are those festival to show off the food from Chicago’s Wanna drive this train? humongous X’s on the outside of the John amazing restaurants. But it’s a whole lot This shiny silver train is nicknamed “Sil- Hancock Building?” If you would like to more than just food. There’s face painting, ver Streak.” Its real name was the Pioneer be the smart one who knows the answer, live music, movies, games, and perfor- Zephyr. It’s an antique now, of course, here it is: They are monster-size steel mances on many stages. but at Awesome World’s Fair #2 it was the PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS“arms” crossing PUBLISHERS the building to make it most modern train people had every seen. stronger against powerful winds. Now it lives at the Museum of Science and Industry. You can climb aboard and look around, and even take the controls – just like an engineer. Y Zoo! Yellow Popcorn. Really, really Oops, you don’t want to miss this! Go back yellow! to page 30 and find out where it is. See you Why are people happy to wait in line for there! popcorn? You’ll know why when you taste PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Chicago’s PROPERTY famous Garrett Popcorn. OF TWINLIGHTS It does PUBLISHERS come plain or buttered if you really want it that way, but the real treats are the melt- in-your-mouth, oh, so cheesy CheeseCorn, and the light-as-air, sweet CaramelCrisp. Pick your favorite and they’ll make it fresh, right before your eyes, in a big copper kettle. You can even get it with pecans, cashews, or macadamia nuts. PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS 60 61

PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTS PUBLISHERS Index , 10 Mosaic, 21 K O Standing Lincoln Monument, 46 Chicago Public Library, 11 Franklin Bridge (Batman Returns), 7 Kohl Children’s Museum, 27 Obama, Barrack, 25, 37 Submarine, 51 A Chicago River, 11, 46 Frisbee Players Sculptures, 21 Observatories, 23, 57 Suchomimus, 47 Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago Theatre, 11 L O’Hare International Airport, 37 Summer Dance Festival, 45 5, 35, 48 , 56 G Lake Michigan, 23, 28 Old Water Tower, 38 Sundial, 48 African American Festival, 16 Chicago’s Harbors, 12 Garfield Park Conservatory, 14, 22 Land of Lincoln, 29 O’Leary’s Fire Truck Tours, 38 Agora Sulpture, 5 Chinatown, 12 Garrett Popcorn, 60 LaSalle Building (Flight of Daedalus and Oprah Winfrey, 39 T Amazing Chicago’s Funhouse Maze, 5 Christopher Columbus Statues, 13 Golden Lady Statue, 22 Icarus Mosaic), 19 Oriental Institute Museum, 39 Taste of Chicago, 61 Aquarium, 5 CityPASS, 13 Grant Park, 14, 23 Legoland Discovery Center, 29 Oriental Theatre, 19 The L, 28 Arch, Chicago Stock Exchange, 6 Clarence Buckingham Memorial Grant Park Music Festival, 41 Lighthouse, Chicago Harbor, 10 The Trib, 49 Art Institute of Chicago, 6, 20 Fountain,PROPERTY 13 OF TWINLIGHTSGreat Chicago PUBLISHERS Fire of 1871, 4, 40 Lincoln Logs, 42 P Totem Pole, 27 Conservatories, 14, 22 Great Lakes, 20, 23 Lincoln Park, 30, 46 Palace of Fine Arts, 39 Trolly, 49 B Crown Fountain, 15 Lincoln Park Conservatory, 14 Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 9, 40 Trump Tower, 50 Baboon Sculpture, 6 CTA (Chicago Transit Authority), 15 H Lincoln Park Zoo, 30, 55 Picasso, Pablo (Baboon Sculpture), 6 Trunnion Bascule, 50 Balbo Monument, 7 Heald Square Monument, 24 Loop, The, 43 Pillar of Fire Sculpture, 40 Twinkies, 50 Batcolumn, 7 D Hemingway, Ernest, 24 Pizza, Chicago Style, 41 Tyrannosaurus Rex, 18 Bean (Cloud Gate), 7 Daphne Sculptures, 16 Hershey’s Chicago, 24 M Planetarium, 5, 35, 48 Blue Angels, 8 Dia del Nino, 32 Holocaust Museum and Education Magnificent Mile, 31 Pritzker Pavillion, 41 U Blues Festival, 8 Dinosaurs, 18, 47 Center, 25 Marina City (Corn Cobs), 13 U.S. Cellular Field, 50 Boat Parade, 53 Douglas, Stephen, 16 Hot Dog, Chicago Style, 25 Marshall Field’s, 31 R U-505 Submarine, 51 Bowman and Spearman, 9 DuSable, Jean Baptiste Pointe, 16, 55 Hyde Park, 25 Merchandie Mart, 32 Republic, The, 22 Union Station, 52 BP Pedestrian Bridge, 6 Michigan Avenue Bridge, 33 River Walk, 43 United Center, 8, 9, 52 Burnham,PROPERTY Daniel, 9 OF TWINLIGHTSE PUBLISHERS I PROPERTY OF TWINLIGHTSMillennium PUBLISHERS Park, 15, 34 Rookery, The, 43 Universities, 52 Butterfly Haven, 9 Elks National Veterans Memorial, 17 Ice Skating, 23, 26 Miro Sculpture, 34 Rosenberg Fountain, 44 Uno Chicago Grill, 41 Illinois and Michgan Canal, 26 Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow, 4, 15 Urbs in Horto, 53 C F International Museum of Surgical Mummies, 34 Century of Progress Expostition 1933, 4, Ferris Wheel, 17 Science, 48 Museum Campus, 35 S V 7, 10, 13, 61 Festivals, 8, 16, 32, 41, 45, 61 Museum of Science and Industry, 35, 39, 51 Schooner, 44 Venetian Night, 53 Chicago Bears, 7 Field Museum of Natural History, 18, J Sears Tower, 45, 57 Victory Monument, 53 Chicago Blackhawks, 8 34, 35 Jackson Park, 26 N Skyscraper, 14, 23, 45, 50, 57, 59, 60 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 54 Chicago Botanic Garden, 58 Flag of Chicago, 18 John G. Shedd Aquarium, 5, 35, 44 Naper Settlement, 36 Soldier Field, 45 Chicago Bulls, 9 Flamingo Statue, 19 John Hancock Building & Observatory, National Museum of Mexican Art, 32 Southpaw, 45 W Chicago Children’s Museum, 12, 44, 47, 56 Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 19 23, 60 Navy Pier, 5, 17, 36 Spider Dan, 45 Washington Park, 20, 55 Chicago Cubs, 15 Fountain of the Great Lakes, 20 Jordan, Michael, 9, 27 Nobel Peace Prize, 37 Spirit of Music Statue, 45 Water Taxi, 55 Chicago Cultural Center, 10 FountainPROPERTY of Time, 20 OF TWINLIGHTSJuicy Fruit Gum, PUBLISHERS 27 Nuclear Reactor, 37 St. Patrick’s Day, 46 Waterfowl Lagoon, 55 62 63

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