5 Hidden Gems in Chicago Most People Walk Right Past
5 landmarks with verified facts and stories
330 N Wabash (Mies van der Rohe)
330 N Wabash Ave, River North, Chicago, 60611, United States
330 North Wabash — originally the IBM Building — was the last American office building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and it's the purest expression of his 'less is more' philosophy in Chicago's skyline.
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.
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.
Pullman National Historical Park
11141 S Cottage Grove Ave, Pullman, Chicago, 60628, United States
Pullman is a planned industrial town built in the 1880s by railroad sleeping car magnate George Pullman, who believed that providing workers with clean housing, parks, a library, and a theatre would make them more productive and less inclined to unionise.
The Rookery
209 S LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60604
The Rookery is a building that contains two of the greatest achievements in Chicago architecture — and most people who work in it don't know about either.
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