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Chicago by GoCityKidsWhether you are traveling with your baby or taking all three kids to Chicago the Windy City for a family vacation, you should have plan for having fun. Babies Travel Lite has teamed up with GoCityKids to bring you a mini-travel guide of sites you shouldn't miss when you visit the Windy City with kids.
Lincoln Park Zoo
Established in 1868, Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the oldest zoological parks in the country, but it is a leader in terms of wildlife conservation, community education, and recreation. But that aside, it's a great place to spend the day with your kids, and it is Free. Enter at the east gate and go directly to the Gateway Pavilion. Here you can get the a free visitor's guide from the information center so you can plan your visit and you can pick up a stroller. The Pritzker Children's Zoo offers supervised hands-on interactions with specially selected animals, so children and adults are able to better understand and appreciate the importance of all members of the wild kingdom. Here guests can become acquainted with a wide variety of furry, scaly, and feathered new friends. Shedd Aquarium
The world's largest indoor aquarium, The Shedd is both an aquarium and an oceanarium - a home for marine mammals. Shedd's Wild Reef exhibit has one of the most diverse displays of sharks in North America, shown with other large predators in a 400,000-gallon habitat. Floor-to-ceiling exhibit windows give guests a divers'-eye view of a Philippine coral reef, teeming with live corals and more than 500 species of reef fishes of all shapes, colors and sizes. The Aquarium's hot spot is the Caribbean Reef, a 90,000 gallon tank, full of Moray Eels, nurse sharks, barracuda, and the colorful clown fish. Amazon Rising is a trip through the rain forest, with a real curtain of rain, sloths, anacondas, piranhas, and stingrays. Don't miss the Seahorse Symphony and the Beluga Whales while you're there! Chicago Children's Museum
There's more to do at the Chicago Children's Museum than can be fit in one visit! Some favorite permanent exhibits include:
Museum of Science & Industry
Home of the Omnimax film experience, the Museum of Science and Industry is an extremely cool place for kids. From the Silver Streak diesel train kids can pretend to ride, to the Coal Mine, where an elevator simulates a trip practically to the center of the earth, with a mining car to ride at the bottom, to a real German U-505 Submarine, just about everything at this museum will thrill and amaze all ages. Don't miss ToyMaker 300, a toy factory manned by 12 robots. Millennium Park
Located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue, between Randolph and Monroe Streets, the 24.5-acre Millennium Park is a center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design, offering everything from interactive public art and ice skating to al fresco dining and free classical music presentations. Among the park's prominent features are the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States; the kid-pleasing and interactive Crown Fountain (two 50-foot tall glass block towers at either end of a reflecting pool) by Jaume Plensa; the contemporary Lurie Garden with sculpted hedgerows and pedestrian pathways; and Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture, which is hugely popular with adults and kids alike. Let Uptake.com help you find Family Accommodations in Chicago | |||||||||||||||||||||||