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Chicago offers the new visitor and the lifetime resident a wealth of opportunities to get out, explore and experience all that this great city has to offer. Chicago is a city for every season, with events and activities all year round. To get started on your search, simply choose your search dates OR type a keyword. Another option is to use the convenient drop down menus. The menus allow you to refine your hunt by searching for specific events, neighborhoods or special interest areas.

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Museum of Science and Industry

Powerful: Black Americans in Energy at the MSI

The Museum of Science and Industry's 2012 Black Creativity exhibit, Powerful: African Americans in Energy, explores the pros and cons of various energy sources and showcases African-American leaders in the field through a fun, miniature golf course.

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink at Millennium Park

Ice Skating at Millennium Park

Grab your skates and head to Millennium Park for one of Chicago’s most popular wintertime activities – ice skating! Skating at Millennium Park is free and open to the public daily through March 11, 2012, and skate rentals are available onsite for $10 if you don’t bring your own pair.

Characters dressed as Snow White and her Prince skate on the JHO's sky-high ice rink

Skating in the Sky at John Hancock Observatory

Skate on the world's highest ice rink atop the John Hancock Observatory, January 1 - April 8, 2012.  This sky-high indoor rink offers birds-eye views of Chicago's famous cityscape, and beginners' lessons are given each Monday Chicago Blackhawks youth hockey coaches, included with admission!

Chicago Cultural Center

Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection

From January 28 - July 8, Chicago Cultural Center showcases over 1,000 works from the collection of Richard Harris in one of its largest exhibitions to date. All the pieces explore the iconography of death, war and mortality, and include creations by some of the greatest artists of our time.

St Paul's Church, located in Wicker Park, was built in 1899 without using a single nail. It was once featured on the television show Ripley's Believe It or Not.




 
 
 
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