Buckingham Fountain
301 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
Buckingham Fountain is one of the largest fountains in the world — 280 feet across, holding 1.
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
The Chicago Cultural Center is a building that would be a museum in any other city but in Chicago is just.
Chicago Riverwalk
Chicago, United States
The Chicago Riverwalk is a mile-long promenade along the south bank of the Chicago River that transformed what was essentially a service road for delivery trucks into one of the best urban waterfronts in America.
Cloud Gate (The Bean)
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602
Cloud Gate is a 110-ton drop of liquid mercury that someone forgot to clean up in Millennium Park — at least that's what it looks like.
Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, East Garfield Park, Chicago, 60624, United States
Garfield Park Conservatory is one of the world's largest conservatories — two acres of tropical plants under glass in Chicago's West Side, free to enter, and visited by a fraction of the tourists who crowd into the Loop attractions a few miles east.
Lincoln Park Zoo
2001 Clark St, Whiting, 46394, United States
Lincoln Park Zoo has been free every day since 1868, making it one of the last free zoos in America and one of the oldest in the country.
Millennium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Millennium Park is a 24-acre rooftop garden built on top of a parking garage and railroad tracks — one of the most ambitious pieces of urban infrastructure in American history, delivered four years late and $325 million over budget, and worth every dollar and every delay.
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
The National Museum of Mexican Art is the largest Latino cultural institution in the United States, holds a permanent collection of over 10,000 works spanning 3,000 years of Mexican art, and has never charged admission in its 40-year history.
Pilsen 16th Street Murals
W 16th St, Heart of Chicago, Chicago, 60608, United States
Pilsen's 16th Street corridor is a half-mile outdoor gallery of Mexican-American murals that's been evolving since the 1960s, and walking its length is one of the most visually intense experiences in Chicago.
Promontory Point
5491 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Kenwood, Chicago, 60637, United States
Promontory Point is a man-made peninsula in Burnham Park that juts into Lake Michigan from the Hyde Park shoreline, and it offers the best skyline panorama in Chicago — a sweeping view north to the Loop and south to the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, with nothing between you and the water but a set of limestone steps that descend directly into the lake.
The 606 / Bloomingdale Trail
1805 N Ridgeway Ave, Logan Square, Chicago, 60647, United States
The 606 is a 2.
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