Explore Chicago
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Wrigley Field is the ballpark of the Chicago Cubs baseball team in the Lakeview area of the North Side, opened in 1914 and the second-oldest park in Major League Baseball. Its outfield brick walls are covered in ivy and its scoreboard of 1937 is still turned by hand; besides games, guided tours of 75 to 90 minutes go behind the scenes.
Official site
Open now · 16:00
The Robie House is a Prairie-style house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1910 for the manufacturer Frederick C. Robie, on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park. Its long brick walls, bands of art glass windows and cantilevered roofs stress the horizontal. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is seen on guided tours of the interior.
Official site
Open now · 16:00
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, called the Museum of Science and Industry until 2024, occupies the Palace of Fine Arts of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park. Opened in 1933, it shows the German submarine U-505, the Pioneer Zephyr train, a replica coal mine, the Apollo 8 command module and a large model railway.
Official site
Open now · 17:00
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is in Oak Park, a village bordering Chicago's west side. Wright built the shingled house in 1889 and added the studio in 1898, where he and his associates developed the Prairie style; he lived here with his family until 1909. Restored to its 1909 appearance, it is seen on guided tours of the interior.
Official site
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