Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Chicago Cultural Center is a neoclassical building of 1897 on Michigan Avenue, built as the city's first central library and a Civil War memorial hall. Run by the city since 1978 as an arts centre, it holds exhibitions, concerts and talks, and visitors see Preston Bradley Hall with its Tiffany glass dome and the G.A.R. Hall and Rotunda.
Millennium Park is a park in the Loop, in the north-west corner of Grant Park, opened in 2004 on top of former rail yards and parking garages. It contains the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an open-air concert stage designed by Frank Gehry, the BP Bridge, the Lurie Garden, the Crown Fountain and Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate.
The Chicago Riverwalk is a public promenade about 2 km long on the south bank of the main branch of the Chicago River, running from Lake Street to Lake Michigan. Built in stages from 2001, it passes under the downtown bridges and has terraces, a Vietnam veterans memorial plaza, cafés, boat landings and kayak rental.
Buckingham Fountain stands at the centre of Grant Park and was dedicated in 1927, a gift from Kate Buckingham in memory of her brother Clarence. Designed by Edward H. Bennett in pink Georgia marble, with bronze sea horses by the French sculptor Marcel Loyau, it runs water displays in season, when a central jet rises 46 m.
The Chicago Water Tower is a 56 m castellated tower of yellow limestone on Michigan Avenue, designed by William W. Boyington and built in 1869 to house a standpipe for the city's waterworks. It was one of the few buildings in the burned area to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It stands in the small Jane M. Byrne Plaza, opposite the old pumping station.
Navy Pier is a pier about a kilometre long on Lake Michigan, opened in 1916 as Chicago's Municipal Pier and renamed in 1927 to honour Navy veterans of the First World War. It holds shops, restaurants, a theatre, a children's museum and boat departures. The Centennial Wheel, opened in 2016, carries enclosed gondolas almost 60 metres high.
Lincoln Park Zoo, founded in 1868, lies in Lincoln Park on the lakefront about 4 km north of the Loop and is one of the oldest zoos in North America. On about 14 hectares it keeps animals of some 200 species, among them gorillas, lions, polar bears and penguins, and it includes the Farm-in-the-Zoo.
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