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We’ve compiled the best of the best in Chicago - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Your mouth is sure to drop to the floor the first time you lay eyes on this stunning structure, a nine-sided building that incorporates architectural...Read More
Built in 1897 as the city's original public library, this huge building houses the Chicago Office of Tourism Visitor Information Center, as...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesNear Irving Park Road, this graveyard has crypts that are almost as strikingly designed as the city skyline. A number of Chicago's most prominent...Read More
Michigan Avenue, or Mag Mile as some call it, is a potpourri of historic buildings, upscale boutiques, department stores, and posh hotels. ...Read More
The Bean," the fun fountains, the Disney-esque music pavilion—all the pieces of this park quickly stole the hearts of Chicagoans and visitors...Read More
The largest Latino museum in the country (and the only Latino one accredited by the American Alliance of Museums) is definitely worth a look...Read More
Some wags have pointed out that this building, with its diamond-shape top, looks like a giant pencil sharpener. Built in 1984 as the Smurfit...Read More
This 40-story postmodern office building, resembling a supersized château, was designed by John Burgee and Philip Johnson in the mid-1980s....Read More
This structure, designed in 1904 by Daniel Burnham, who later moved his office here, was once known as the Railway Exchange Building and the...Read More
These twin apartment towers overlooking Lake Michigan were an early and eloquent realization of Mies van der Rohe's "less is more" credo, expressed...Read More
With the open space of Millennium Park at its doorstep, the Aon Center really stands out. Originally built as the Standard Oil Building, the...Read More
Designed in 1929 by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of the renowned architect Daniel Burnham, this is arguably the jazziest skyscraper in town...Read More
This building's graceful swoop—a novelty when it went up—continues to offer an eye-pleasing respite from all the surrounding right angles; and...Read More
Home of the thriving financial district, relatively narrow LaSalle Street earned the moniker "The Canyon" (and it feels like one) because of...Read More
The Gothic-inspired headquarters of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago, built in 1923 by Holabird &Roche, comes complete with...Read More
Part of Printers Row, this is Chicago's oldest-standing passenger train station, designed in the Romanesque Revival style in 1885 by New York...Read More
This center is spread over three separate buildings: the Everett McKinley Dirksen Building; the John C. Kluczynski Building ( 230 S. Dearborn...Read More
This famous Michigan Avenue structure, completed in 1867, was originally built to house a 137-foot standpipe that equalized the pressure of...Read More
To get a good overview of the neighborhood, stop by the Hyde Park Historical Society, which sponsors lectures and tours. The society is housed...Read More
A runt compared to today's tall buildings, this sparkling 19-story high-rise from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was a trailblazer when it was...Read More
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