For the past two years, the two years I've attended C2E2, a comic and entertainment convention in Chicago that also throws in wrestling and tattoos into the mix. It has happened each year at McCormic Place. The best way to get there is by the #3 bus. For some reason Google maps isn't very helpful, [...]
Tag: things to do in Chicago
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street. The Cultural Center has been around since 1897 and use to be the Chicago Public Library. Today it is a free to enter museum of sorts. It's open daily from 9am until 7pm, except on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) when it closes an hour earlier. [...]
Chicago History Museum
The Chicago History Museum is located at 1601 N. Clark St. A couple buses like the 26 and 22 drop people off right at the front. It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the city and it's history. It packs a lot into two floors. It goes through Chicago's history, the blues and jazz era, [...]
Lincoln Park Conservatory
The Lincoln Park Conservatory is located at 2391 N Stockton Dr. It's in-between the Nature Museum and the Lincoln Park Zoo. It's a great place to go in winter to get away from the cold. The Conservatory is home to a Palm House, a Fern Room (look for the dinosaurs scattered around), an orchid house, [...]
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is in Lincoln Park, it's in the same area as the zoo. The museum is located at 2430 North Cannon Drive. It is reachable by different forms of public transportation, most require a short walk. The walk isn't that bad, however I went in winter as you can tell from [...]
Zoolights
I think, almost every zoo has some form or another of zoo lights during the winter holidays. I've been to the one hosted by the St.Louis zoo, but this year I went to the zoolights at Lincoln Park zoo. The Lincoln Park zoo is free and for their Zoolights they are open until 9pm. If [...]
CTA holiday train
Every year the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) puts together a holiday train. These trains are elusive since they usually only run maybe once or twice between set times per line per day. The trains, depending on the time can get packed, especially if it's the time people are getting off work. This is usually between [...]
Seadog
Seadog is a speedboat tour at Navy Pier. The speedboat leaves the pier for about a half hour and includes a tour of the city from the lake. The tour guide tells a bit about different places along the way and some historical architectural facts. There are two different types of Seadog tours, the extreme [...]
Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival
Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival can be found off the Morse Red line stop. Once you've exited the train and gone down to the street you've walked into the festival. The festival is usually a weekend in early August. With many different vendors and booths there is plenty to do. There are several stages playing music [...]
Lit Fest
Lit Fest is a literary festival that happens on Printers Row in June. The festival is packed with tents of different book stores, shops, publishers, writers and even historic art or music. There were also stages with poets and writers reading their work. Several of the events were free, but a couple were ticketed events [...]