Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
THE SOUTH SIDE
Pilsen
National Museum of Mexican Art
157
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
p. 184
Navy Pier , p. 174
Newberry Library, p. 186
,
p. 185
The Gold Coast
International Museum of Surgical
Science, p. 183
The Lakefront
Hyde Park
DuSable Museum of African-American
History, p. 182
Museum of Science and
Industry , p. 170
Oriental Institute Museum
, p. 167
Lincoln Park
Chicago History Museum , p. 180
Lincoln Park Conservatory , p. 199
Lincoln Park Pritzker Children's Zoo
& Farm-in-the-Zoo , p. 197
Lincoln Park Zoo , p. 197
North Avenue Beach, p. 216
Peggy Notebaert Nature
Museum , p. 200
Uptown & Andersonville
Swedish-American Museum Center
, p. 187
Robie House , p. 194
The Smart Museum of Art
, p. 189
The Suburbs
Brookfield Zoo
, Brookfield,
p. 196
Fox River Trolley Museum, South
Elgin, p. 188
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home &
Studio , Oak Park, p. 194
Hamill Family Play Zoo
,
6
,
p. 190
THE WEST SIDE
Near West
Garfield Park Conservatory , p. 199
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and
Outsider Art, p. 183
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,
p. 184
Polish Museum of America, p. 188
Brookfield, p. 165
Illinois Railway Museum, Union,
p. 188
Morton Arboretum, Lisle, p. 200
Six Flags Great America, Gurnee,
p. 191
Unity Temple
, Oak Park, p. 195
2 KIDS' TOP 10 ATTRACTIONS
Adler Planetarium & Astr onomy Museum All ages. The building may be
historic, but some of the attractions her e will captivate the most jaded video game addict
in your family. The Western Hemisphere's first planetarium was founded by Sears, Roebuck
& Co. executive Max Adler, who imported a Zeiss projector from Germany in 1930.
The good news for present-day visitors is that the planetarium has been updated since
then. Your first stop should be the modern Sky Pavilion, where the don't-miss experience
is the StarRider Theater, which propels passengers on an exhilarating v oyage of discov-
ery into the infinity of space. S ettle down under the massiv e dome, and y ou'll take a
half-hour interactiv e vir tual-reality trip thr ough the M ilky Way and into deep space,
featuring a computer-generated 3-D graphics pr ojection system. You participate in the
journey by operating controls on the armrests. Six high-resolution video projectors form
a seamless image above your head—you'll feel like you're literally floating in space. If you're
looking for more entertainment, the Sky Theater shows movies with an astronomical bent.
 
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