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This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

Explore art, science, history and technology exhibits, plus an expansive planetarium and a riverfront sculpture garden, at Peoria’s premier museum.  

Piece together the history of art around the world through the varied galleries of this large museum with a focus on pre-Columbian and Asian art.

This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

See iconic Chicago landmarks made from over a million LEGO® pieces, watch a movie and learn how the bricks are made in the LEGO® factory.

Browse through over 300 stores, restaurants and specialty shops at Schaumburg’s expansive shopping mall, one of the largest in the United States.

Imagine the way of life for settlers who moved to the Midwest in the 19th century as you wander around the grounds of a historic village in Naperville. 

See iconic Chicago landmarks made from over a million LEGO® pieces, watch a movie and learn how the bricks are made in the LEGO® factory.

Imagine the way of life for settlers who moved to the Midwest in the 19th century as you wander around the grounds of a historic village in Naperville. 

This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

Bird life, paved paths and a built-in music venue give one of Chicago’s newest green spaces much to offer to nature lovers, exercisers and music fans.

Built by famed 19th-century architects and renovated in 1907 by Frank Lloyd Wright, this early skyscraper is a great stop on a Chicago architecture tour.

See iconic Chicago landmarks made from over a million LEGO® pieces, watch a movie and learn how the bricks are made in the LEGO® factory.

The lodge provides a luxurious base from which to explore trails leading to bluffs and canyons of this riverside park. Try ice climbing and eagle spotting in winter.

This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

The lodge provides a luxurious base from which to explore trails leading to bluffs and canyons of this riverside park. Try ice climbing and eagle spotting in winter.

From barhopping to visiting museums, this college town and Silicon Prairie hub offers plenty to see and do.

This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

This enormous art deco installation gives free regular water and light shows symbolizing the power and might of Lake Michigan.

A dynamic village and suburb of Chicago with shopping centers, comedy clubs and a restaurant where you can watch medieval jousts. 

Leave the skyscrapers of Chicago behind by escaping inland to tranquil gardens that feature model railroads, a vast array of trees and peaceful ponds.

Take a tour of Evanston’s 19th-century lighthouse, which was once used to guide ships into Chicago Harbor and today stands as an eye-catching lakeside landmark.