The Greater Chicago area is full of attractions for all ages. Chicago claims fame to producing the earliest steel frame skyscraper, Pullman rail car, cafeteria, co-educational public high school, bifocal contact lens, along with Cracker Jacks and Schwinn Bicycles. Hugh Hefner started Playboy magazine here. Other bragging points for this city along Lake Michigan’s southwest shore include Sears Tower, stretching 110 floors skyward, the Merchandise Mart as the world’s largest commercial building, and McCormick Place as the largest convention center with 2.2 million square feet.

Adler Planetarium
Opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere, additions to the Adler within the past decade include a theater and restaurant.
1300 South Lake Shore Drive. Call (312) 922-7827 for more information.

Art Institute of Chicago

Here you’ll find Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Picasso’s The Old Guitarist and a spectacular collection of Impressionist and post Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, and Gaugin among other celebrated artists.
South Michigan Avenue and Adams Street. Call (312) 443-3600 for more information.

Field Museum
Explore cultures and environments from around the world within six acres of exhibits at this world-class facility originally funded by retailer Marshall Field.
Lake Shore Drive and East Roosevelt Road. Call (312) 922-9410 for more information.

The Loop
Known as the Loop since cable car days of the late 1800s, Chicago’s downtown serves as a vibrant architectural museum where you can wander past modern towers adjacent to 19th century structures, shop at huge department stores surviving the malling of America, and visit world-renowned museums. Noisily looping the loop overhead, you will encounter the train called the El.

Museum of Science and Industry
At this sprawling exhibit powerhouse, you can walk through a replica of a human heart, explore a WWII German submarine or sample perfect acoustics at the Whispering Gallery.
5700 South Lake Shore Drive. Call (773) 684-1414 for more information.

Sears Tower
Once the world’s tallest building (now edged out by another in Malaysia), the 110-story Sears Tower continues to impress with its steel frame covered in black aluminum and bronze-tinted glass. On clear days, you can see Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin from the 103rd floor Skydeck open 365 days.
233 South Wacker Drive. Call (312) 875-9696 for more information.

Shedd Aquarium
John G. Shedd Aquarium, the world’s largest, boasts underwater viewing areas for dolphins and whales along with exhibits for river otters, electric eels, piranhas, and scores of other aquatic wonders.
1200 South Lake Shore Drive. Call (312) 939-2426 for more information.

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Lincoln Park, also designated as Community Area 7, is one of the North side community areas of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Named after Lincoln Park, a vast stretch of park belonging to the Chicago Park District, the community area is anchored by the Lincoln Park Zoo and DePaul University. Lincoln Park is bordered by the community areas of Lakeview and North Center to the north, Logan Square (Bucktown neighborhood) and West Town to the west, and Near North to the south.

Hostory of Lincoln Park
The area now known as Lincoln Park in Chicago was primarily forest with stretches of grassland and occasional quicksand until the late 1820’s when the Europeans arrived. In 1824 the United States Army built a small post near today’s Clybourn and Armitage Avenues. Indian settlements existed along Green Bay Trail, now called Clark Street (named after explorer George Rogers Clark), at the current intersection of Halsted Street and Fullerton Avenue. In 1836, land from North to Fullerton and from the lake to Halsted was relatively inexpensive, costing $150 per acre ($0.04 m²). Because the area was considered remote, a small pox hospital and the city cemetery were located in Lincoln Park until the 1860s.

In 1837 Chicago was incorporated as a city, and North Avenue was established as its northern boundary. Settlements increased along Green Bay Trail when (1) the government offered land claims and (2) Green Bay Road was widened. In the period following the Civil War, the area around St. Josaphat’s parish around Southport and Clybourn was home to Chicago’s Cassubian community, who although Polish in national orientation, possess their own distinct culture and language marked by the distinct influences of their maritime way of life as well as their German neighbors. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Lincoln Park was also home to the first Puerto Rican immigrants to Chicago. Jose (Cha-Cha) Jimenez transformed the local Young Lords gang into human rights activists for Latinos and the poor. They mounted sit-ins and takeovers of institutions and churches at Grant Hospital, Armitage Ave. Methodist Church, and McCormick Theological Seminary. Today, few Puerto Ricans reside in Lincoln Park. The neighborhood population is primarily made up of young urban professionals, recent college graduates, and young families.

Neighborhood
Although boundaries are not precisely defined, the Lincoln Park neighborhood is generally considered to be bordered on the north by Diversey Parkway, on the west by Clybourn Avenue, on the south by North Avenue, and on the east by the public park of the same name. Lincoln Park is home to Lincoln Park High School, Francis W. Parker School, and DePaul University, which bought out the McCormick Seminary buildings in 1975, when the seminary moved to Hyde Park. Many students who attend these schools now live in this neighborhood. Lincoln Park is also home to two architecturally significant churches: St. Vincent De Paul and St. Josaphat’s, one of the many so-called ‘Polish Cathedrals’ in Chicago. Visible from throughout the neighborhood, these monumental edifices tower over the neighborhood lending the area much of its charm.

There are many boutiques, movie theaters, retail stores, restaurants and coffee shops. There are also many bars and clubs in the area, especially along Lincoln Avenue between Diversey and Armitage. In 2007, Forbes Magazine named the area between Armitage St, Willow St, Burling St, and Orchard St as the most expensive block in Chicago

Lincoln Park (Chicago Park District)
Lincoln Park, for which the neighborhood was named, stretches along the lakefront from Ardmore Avenue (in Edgewater) south to North Avenue. The park contains a zoo, an outdoor theatre, a rowing canal, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, ponds, playing fields, and a large statue of General Grant. The famed restaurant, North Pond, is also located in the park.

Transportation
The Lincoln Park neighborhood is accessible via mass transit, including the CTA’s Red, Brown, and Purple lines at the Fullerton station, the Purple and Brown lines at Armitage, and Diversey stations, as well as CTA bus service. It is also one of over 20 neighborhoods served by I-GO Cars.
Via car, Lincoln Park can be reached by using Lake Shore Drive or Interstate 94.

Schools
Lincoln Park High School serves as the sole neighborhood secondary education institution and is ranked one of Chicago’s best public high schools.
Additionally, two elementary schools (grades K-8), Abraham Lincoln Elementary School and Oscar Mayer Elementary School are found in the neighborhood.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago operates the Saint Clement School, a K-8 school, in the Lincoln Park area.
Francis W. Parker School, a K-12 school, is in the area.

Source: Wikipedia

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