• Millennium Park and The Bean
  

  
  Millennium Park is located in the Loop community area and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. One of its most iconic features is Cloud Gate, a three-story reflective steel sculpture that has been dubbed "The Bean" by Chicagoans, because of its legume-like shape.
  
  

• Art Institute of Chicago
  

  
  The Art Institute of Chicago is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection.
  
  

• Navy Pier
  

  
  Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million.
  
  

• Willis (Sears) Tower
  

  
  Willis Tower (formerly named and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1,450-foot skyscraper. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York. Willis Tower is the second-tallest building in the United States and the eighth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.
  
  

• Michigan Avenue shopping
  

  
  The Magnificent Mile, a cosmopolitan, history-packed strip on downtown Michigan Avenue between the Michigan Avenue Bridge and Oak Street leads you from department stores to multi-story megamalls to luxury boutiques to brand name retail chains – all in a row.
  
  

• Lakefront Trail
  

  
  Chicago has a strong, passionate bicycle culture, and riding opportunities abound. The scenic Lakefront Trail runs for 18 continuous miles along the city's beautiful shoreline, from Hollywood Beach in Edgewater to the magnificent South Shore Cultural Center.
  
  

• Field Museum of Natural History
  

  
  The Field Museum of Natural History, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of the largest natural history museums in the world.
  
  

• Beaches
  

  
  Chicago has great beaches and anyone can show up and swim. There are no admission fees on the city's miles upon miles of beaches, and nearly the entire waterfront is open as public beach and parkland.
  
  

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