Welcome to Chicago, the Windy City. Chicago is one of the major cities and tourist destinations in North America. Chicago is also a great town for professional sports with two Major League Baseball teams, an NBA team, an NHL team, and an NFL team. You might be in Chicago for business, for pleasure, or both. Either way, we'll help you watch the best sports, eat the best food, hit the best museums, and find the best attractions in the Windy City. Enjoy!
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The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), originally built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, became the first home of the Field Museum of Natural History. Due to its unique steel skeleton and brick interior walls, the building is the only one to remain out of the [...]
What is the best restaurant in Chicago? How about the best restaurant in America? Gourmet magazine’s October 2006 Restaurant Issue, named Alinea on North Halstead the best restaurant in America. Chef and owner Greg Achatz is praised as “redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation.” Charlie Trotter’s is ranked the 13th [...]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago, opened in 1968 as a temporary art center for local collectors and modern art enthusiasts. The main objective of the MCA is to offer a view of the contemporary visual arts in painting, sculpture, photography, video, film, and performance since 1945. [...]
The online Abraham Lincoln Civil War Tour identifies four major tourist attractions in Chicago. This Tour gives a brief summary of the significance of these national landmarks in their commemoration of Lincoln and the Civil War. The Lincoln monument, located in Lincoln Park at North Dearborn Parkway, was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and [...]
Chicago Condotels
Condo-hotels or condotels are large, four and five star high-rise properties operated by the big names in hotels such as the Ritz Carlton, Hilton, Le Meridien, Clarion, Four Seasons, and Bulgari. They are fully furnished with top-of-the-line amenities and owners have the benefits of staying in luxurious hotel space, as well as the opportunity [...]
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum opened in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago in 1999. The Museum, named in honor of Peggy Notebaert, wife of Quest Chairman, Richard Notebaert, is operated by the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Its main objective is to provide information and education to city dwellers and visitors in an [...]
The United Center is located at 1901 W. Madison Street. This is where you have to go to see a Chicago Bulls basketball or Chicago Blackhawks hockey home game. In addition to the NBA and NHL professional sports teams, the University of Illinois basketball team, the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Men’s NCAA Basketball [...]
The Chicago Bulls are not what they were in the days of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman, but seeing a Chicago Bulls home game can still be an exciting experience for anyone visiting the Windy City.
The Chicago Bulls have been playing in the United Center since 1994. The Bulls started playing in 1966, [...]
US Cellular Field is located at 35th Street and Shields Avenue in Armour Square, a Chicago neighborhood. The ballpark is often connected with Bridgeport, the next neighborhood over.
Seeing the White Sox in US Cellular Field doesn’t have the same historical significance as seeing the Cubs in Wrigley Field, but it is still quite an experience. [...]