Come early, stay late, or make plans for free time—there are lots of fun activities in Spring in Chicago!
Follow in the Footsteps: Barak Obama Tour
Visit the sites and places that the new 44th President of the United States calls home in Chicago. Learn where he got his start both careerwise and politically. Discover some of his favorite places like where he goes to enjoy pizza with his family. There are only 35 spaces available at the price of $17.00 per person. This tour will be on a first come first serve basis. If you are interested in signing up, please contact Shannon Fountain at 410.933.5700 ext. 21 or sfountain@adoptuskids.org.
Tour of Jane Addams Hull House and Museum
Jane Addams founded, with Ellen Gates Starr, the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago's near West Side in 1889. From Hull-House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country's most prominent woman through her writing, settlement work and international efforts for peace. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA) was founded by Jane Addams. Peter B. Goldberg, a keynote speaker at the AEA Conference, is the present CEO of UNCA.
The tour through the home and museum is scheduled for May 27, 2009 and takes about one hour. Some of the special exhibits include: Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963; Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams: Chicago Contemporaries for Equality and Reform; and Urban Archaeology Chicago: the Hull-House Settlement and the U of I at Chicago. For more information go to www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull.
The tour is free and will leave from the Palmer House with Adoptions Unlimited, Inc. staff as escorts. The group will travel on the Blue El Line. Travel time will be approximately one hour round trip.
If you would like to sign up for this tour, please email sfountain@adoptuskids.org.
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Architectural Walk
Ph: 312.922.3432 ext. 226
Architecture of Culture and Commerce
5:30 pm on Thursday
Cost: $16 per person
www.architecture.org/tour_view.aspx?TourID=85
Art Institute of Chicago
Ph: 312.443.3600
Free Thursday evenings 5 – 8 pm
www.artic.edu
Baseball Games: Chicago Cubs
Thursday, May 28 @ 7:05pm vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
Cost: tickets $20 - $80
www.cubs.mlb.com
Broadway Musicals
www.broadwayinchicago.com
Chicago Highlights
Ph: 773.648.5000
www.aviewoncities.com/chicago/chicagohighlights.htm
Chicago Neighborhood Tours
Ph: 312.742.1190
www.chicagoneighborhoodtours.com
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ph: 312.294.3000
www.cso.org
Mozart and Haydn @6:30 pm on Wednesday, May 27
Cost: tickets $27 - $87
Mozart and Haydn @ 8:00 pm on Thursday, May 28
Cost: tickets $21 - $199
Mozart and Haydn @ 8pm on Friday, May 29
Cost: tickets $21 - $199
Gold Coast Neighborhood Tour
Ph: 312.922.3432 ext. 226
Tour of Architecture of Culture and Commerce
Cost: $10
www.goldcoastneighbors.org
Grant Park
Ph: 312.742.7648
337 E. Randolpha Street, 60601
www.aviewoncities.com/chicago/grantpark.htm
John Hancock Observatory
Ph: 888.875.view
875 N. Michigan Avenue, 60611
Cost: $15 per person
Hours: closes at 11:00 pm
www.hancockobservatory.com
Lincoln Park Zoo
Ph: 312.742.2000
2001 North Clark Street, 60614
Cost: Free
Hours: open until 7:00 pm
www.lpzoo.org
Loyola University Museum of Art
Ph: 312.915.7604
Cost: $6 per person
www.luc.edu/luma
Magnificent Mile
Shopping and dining
www.themagnificentmile.com
Mercury Cruise
Ph: 312.332.1366
www.mercuryskylinecruiseline.com
Millennium Park
http://www.millenniumpark.org/documents/finalguide.pdf
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ph: 312.397.3898
229 East Chicago Avenue, 60611
Cost: $12.95 per person
www.mcachicago.org
Navy Pier
Ph: 312.595.pier
600 East Grand Avenue, 60611
www.navypier.com
Extreme Ride
Hours: open until 7:00 pm
Cost: $28.95
www.seadogcruises.com/chicago/
Speedboat Ride
Cost: $19.95
Hours: open until 7:00 pm
Architectural Tour
Hours: Open until 5:15 pm
Cost: $29.95
Tall Ship Windy
Cost: $30 per person
www.tallshipwindy.com
Oprah
312.591.9222
Hours: phone lines are open 10: am – 4:00 pm
*taking reservations
www.oprah.com
River Walk
www.cityofchicago.org/riverwalk
Sears Tower
Ph: 312.875.2423
233 S. Wacker Drive, #3530, 60606
Hours: Closes at 10 pm
Cost: $12.95
www.searstower.org
Skyscrapers
Ph: 312.922.3432 ext. 226
Modern Skyscrapers
Hours: 5:30 pm Happy Hour Tour
Cost: $16 per person
www.architecture.org/tour_view.aspx?TourID=85 ToursRUs Chicago
Ph: 773.575.3176
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