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Shedd Aquarium

The John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with 5,000,000 US gallons of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with a saltwater fish collection. It is surrounded by Museum Campus Chicago, which it shares with the Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum of Natural History.

Albino Alligator

Ticket Prices

Adult Tickets - $26.95
Children (ages 11-13) - $19.99

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Hours

Summer daily, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Winter: Mon-Fri, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sat-Sun & holidays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

 

The Museum of Contemporary Art

220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60611

The Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues. The museum's collection is composed of thousands of objects of Post-World War II visual art. It had its first showroom in the building of a former baking factory.
Museum

Hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10 am - 8 pm
Wednesday - Sunday
10 am - 5 pm

Prices

Tuesdays - Free
General Admission $12
Students with ID and Senior Citizens $7

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Millennium Park

350 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603

Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously occupied by parkland, Illinois Central rail yards and parking lots. The park, which is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive, features a variety of public art.Park

Parking

Up to 20 min: $5
20 to 40 min: $10
40 to 60 min: $12
60 to 80 min: $18
80 to 100 min: $22
100 to 8 hrs: $24
8 to 24 hrs: $28
Monthly: $265

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Navy PieR

600 East Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60603

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, equivalent to $90.5 million today. It was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates. Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure. Its primary purpose was as a cargo facility for lake freighters, and warehouses were built up and down the pier. However, the pier was also designed to provide docking space for passenger excursion steamers, and in the pre-air conditioning era parts of the pier, especially its outermost tip, were designed to serve as cool places for public gathering and entertainment. The pier even had its own streetcar. Today, Navy Pier is Chicago's number one tourist attraction.

Navy Pier

Hours


Sunday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Fall (Tuesday following Labor Day through October)
Sunday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Winter (November 1 - March 31)
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Spring (April 1 - The Thursday before Memorial Day)
Sunday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Summer (Friday before Memorial Day - Labor Day)
Sunday - Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight

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Blaine BPA Chapter - Jerith Bixler, Tanner Chergosky, Kootaws Yang, Andrew Zyvoloski - Chicago - Blaine High School - Blaine, MN - 2011