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Join the Share your reproduction without permission is conversation trip videos strictly prohibited. on Facebook on YouTube printed by the authority of the state of illinois. 10m, 1/2013 ©the magnificent mile is a registered Follow us Download the trademark of the GNMAA. on Twitter Discover Illinois Travel Guide On the Covers Front: Visitors and the downtown chicago skyline are reflected in the cloud gate Check out Flickr sculpture (also known as the Bean) at to see other millennium park. photo by robert garcia travelers’ pics photography. Back: take off on an illinois road trip. photo by marcus stevens. discoverillinois.org Discover illinois Travel GuiDe 5 iconic CHIcAGO This big city keeps the excitement going day and night Chicago is the ultimate photo.com American city, welcoming K visitors to a one-of-a-kind experience. Stroll the downtown streets of one of Bigstoc the most walkable cities in the United States and explore block after block of the amazing architecture that makes up Chicago’s breathtaking skyline. Spend the day browsing the diverse galleries of world-class museums, shopping in Chicago’s trendy retail districts and discovering unique attractions along the cool, blue Lake Michigan waterfront. In the evening, dine at a delicious award-winning restaurant, cheer a performance by a cutting-edge theater company, and listen to live music in venues that keep Chicago jumping seven nights a week. navy pier 6 Discover illinois Travel GuiDe discoverillinois.org ichael Kardas m om om o .c .c g to to a o o ic h h h p p c K K e c c s o o o t t s s o g g h i i c B B art institute of chicago cloud gate at millennium park chicago lakefront tart your visit by exploring the Stark white gallery walls hold Scity’s many museums. A good thought-provoking pieces by place to begin is the acclaimed contemporary artists. Be sure to Art Institute of Chicago. The check out the terraced sculpture elegant Beaux Arts-style building garden with views of the azure holds one of the world’s largest waters of Lake Michigan. collections of French Impressionist Three of Chicago’s most popular art, with works by Monet and museums make up the Museum Renoir. Don’t miss the museum’s Campus. The Field Museum stunning Modern Wing that holds natural history treasures, showcases masterpieces by Picasso including Sue, the largest and and de Kooning. most complete T. rex skeleton ever Continue the modern art unearthed, who towers menacingly theme at the Museum of over visitors in the ornate Contemporary Art (MCA). marble Main Hall. At the Shedd discoverillinois.org Discover illinois Travel GuiDe 7 Steppenwolf Theatre LITLE ITALY GREEKTOWN 90 94 CLYBOURN CORRIDOR 90 94 290 RIVER NORTH 90 O’Hare Chicago Midway International Willis Tower/ LINCOLN International Airport Skydeck Chicago Airport PARK The Second City Cadillac Palace 55 Theatre Goodman Theatre Chicago Lincoln Park GOLD History CHINATOWN PRINTERS THE LOOP Museum Oriental COAST Theatre ROW Bank of America Theatre Chicago Cultural Buddy Guy’s Auditorium Theatre of Legends Roosevelt University Center Visitor Information Center Chicago Lookingglass 900 North Architecture MAGNIFICENT Theatre Michigan Shops 41 Foundation 55 ArchiCenter MILE John Hancock Observatory Art Institute Millennium Chicago Water North of Chicago Park Works Visitor Broadway Playhouse Avenue Beach Information Mies van der Rohe Way Center Museum of Science Museum of Lake Michigan and Industry Contemporary Art Buckingham Grant Park Martin Luther King Dr Fountain 41 MUSEUM 41 CAMPUS om y.c se 41 d in l n o s Field museum Burnham a Harbor J dU nd in stry e a nc ie c s F o m Bel U ro e t s s s U e m m a J MUSEum CAMPUS museum of science and industry adler planetarium shedd aquarium Aquarium catch a show in the the popular Coal Mine, fasten glass-walled Oceanarium, where your seatbelt in a suspended beluga whales and leaping Pacific United Airlines Boeing 727 for white-sided dolphins perform a virtual flight, and explore the in the largest indoor marine inner workings of the U-505 mammal habitat in the world. Submarine. Then go stargazing at the Adler Get outdoors and explore Planetarium, where taking a Millennium Park, the city’s seat in one of its innovative sky playground for the arts that’s an theaters will send you hurtling oasis of green space in the heart through the galaxies. of downtown Chicago. Take the Just south of downtown Chicago quintessential Chicago photo in in Hyde Park (President Obama’s front of the reflective stainless- neighborhood) is the Museum steel Cloud Gate sculpture (called of Science and Industry, the The Bean by the locals).