museums

• Shedd Aquarium
• The Field Museum
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Art Institute: $17 student discount
• Lincoln Park Zoo & Conservatory: free
• North Park Village Nature Center
• Museum of Contemporary Art (closed Monday)
• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
• Musuem of Contemporary Photography
• Oriental Institute Museum
• National Museum of Mexican Art
• Smart Museum of Art
• DuSable Museum of African-American History, free Sunday
• Museum of Contemporary Art, free Tuesday
• Swedish American Museum Center, free second Tuesday
• Art Institute of Chicago, free first & second Wednesday
• Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, free Thursdays

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up high

• views from Promontory Point in Hyde Park
• Hancock Observatory: bar adjoining Signature Room on 95th floor, best view in ladies' room

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other

• ADAGIO TEAS!
• Goose Island Brewery Tour
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: has $1M in $1 bills

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music

• Blues Chicago
• Chicago Cultural Center: free jazz & classical concerts performed Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 12:15
• Millenium Park Concert Schedule , free
• early warnings concert listings from chicago reader

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performance/theater

• The Second City: sketch comedy troupe (free improv following last performance every night but Friday)
• Ford Center for the Performing Arts
• Oriental Theatre
• Cadillac Palace
• the Goodman
• Steppenwolf
• Lookingglass
• Chicago Shakespeare
• iO Chicago: improv theater
• Neo-Futurists: 30 plays in 60 seconds

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active

• McCormick Tribune Ice Rink open through March 9, skate rentals $10
• run along the lakefront
• kayak rentals

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food

• pizza: Pizzeria Due, Giordano's Gino's Pizzeria Uno
• Italian beef sandwiches
• garden-style hot dogs

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drink

• Chinatown teahouses
• Goose Island Brewery Tour
• adagio tea retail store: 617 N. State St.

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neighborhoods

• Littly Italy
• Andersonville: Middle Eastern food
• Devon Avenue: Indian to Pakistani to Russian Orthodox to Jewish
• Pilsen/Little Village: Pilsen's murals, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexican restaurants
• Bronzeville: home of Bessie Coleman and Louis Armstrong
• Bucktown & Wicker Avenue: good shopping

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resources

• Choose Chicago
• Chicago Reader
• Time Out Chicago