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The windy city is a cornucopia of modern art, fine dining, cutting edge comedy, and die-hard sports fans. Snap a photo of your reflection in the silver Cloud Gate sculpture at Millennium Park before heading to Grant Park to get hit with the refreshing spray of Buckingham Fountain. There are dozens of museums and theater companies in Chicago, so a cultural experience is never hard to find. You’re sure to laugh your head off at the Second City Theater, the professional launch pad of many famous comedians.
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1. Illinois Artisans, Chicago
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
2. Thirty Five E Wacker
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3. The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
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4.5 based on 148 reviews
Celebrating the Chicago River and its world-famous movable bridges. Note: We are closed for the 2015 season. We will reopen in May 2016!
Reviewed By skenyon1995 - Hoffman Estates, United States
A friend of mine sent me a snail mail article from the Chicago Tribune about the Chicago Bridge Museum. Chicago has made an actual museum inside one of their 4 story Chicago River bridge towers. You can take a tour below ground and actually see the gears & inner workings of the DuSable(formerly Michigan) Ave double decker four lane bridge lift machinery. Lots of history in the upper levels. A tour guide came down to the lower level when the boats were passing above & the bridge was lifting to explain things & answer questions. The gigantic counterweight weighs an amazing 12,000 tons! The 100 yr old bridge is so superbly balanced that it only takes about a 150 HP motor & a LOT of BIG gears to lift & lower it in one minute. Amazing what they could design back then with slide rules instead of software. You can go through on your own self guided tour fairly quickly, access is from the Riverwalk area. I believe an adult ticket was $12 or so. Didnt know that boats have the right of way over cars, since the Chicago river is a federal waterway. Sorry, you have to wait for the Skipper & Gilligan!
4. Chagall's Four Seasons
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4.5 based on 82 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Located in an unlikely and totally unexpected place, the Chase Tower Plaza, at 10 South Dearborn Street, The Four Seasons by Russian-French artist Marc Chagall is a series of mosaics that lyrically and colorfully celebrate the arrival of spring, summer, fall and winter. A gift to the City of Chicago by Frederick H. Prince of the Prince Charitable Trust, it is wrapped around four sides of a 70-feet-long, 14-feet-high and 10-feet-wide rectangular box. It was dedicated on September 27, 1974 and renovated in 1994 when the mosaic panels were restored and a protective canopy was installed. Best known as a painter, Chagall also produced ceramics, stained glass and mosaics. The Four Seasons represent human life, both physical and spiritual, at its different stages. The mosaic features 128 separate panels and 250 different colors, joined together with additional glass and stone fragments. Imagery includes birds, fish, flowers suns and lovers, all references to memories of simple, village life, interspersed with sunbursts and city skylines. Chagall also is well-known in Chicago for his America Windows, a series of large-scale stained-glass panels that were installed in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977.
5. Agora Scuptures
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4.5 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By Princess279 - East Brunswick, United States
If you found yourself walking around the Museum Campus, walk a little further to experience this installation. If you are looking for a mind blowing backdrop for some dramatic pictures, look no further. I had to see it briefly on my way out of town and still wish I had more time to wonder around with the rest of the legs. It amazes and disturbs all at the same...
6. Muddy Waters Mural
7. DuSable Monument
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4.5 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
When I first became acquainted with Du Sable High School's basketball team in 1954 and later covered Du Sable basketball teams in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s while working for the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times, I didn't know who Du Sable was. Along the way, I got educated on the subject. Today, Du Sable is everywhere. For those who don't know, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable was the Founder of Chicago, the city's first citizen, a fur-trading entrepreneur of African descent who was the first permanent, non-native resident of Chicago. The Du Sable monument, a large bronze bust situated on a granite pedestal, was created by Chicago-born sculptor Erik Blome and erected in 2009 at 401 North Michigan Avenue, or 4 River Esplanade, in Pioneer Court, on the north bank of the Chicago River, in the shadow of the Equitable Building. It is on the site where Du Sable founded his trading post and established his homesite in 1779. Pioneer Court was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Aside from the homesite and monument, Du Sable also is remembered by other city landmarks: Du Sable High School, a harbor, a park, the first African-American history museum in the United States and the Du Sable Bridge, once known as the Michigan Avenue Bridge, which is adjacent to the monument and homesite.
8. Miro's Chicago
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4.0 based on 46 reviews
Reviewed By Princess279 - East Brunswick, United States
I don't know if coming to see just this piece of art would be worth it, but I believe taking a self-guided tour of Chicago to see all the pieces in the area is a great way to experience Chicago. Go see the Picasso, Chagall and Calder’s along withnthe Miro, you'll enjoy them!
9. Radiant One - by Richard Lippord
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
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