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From festivals to zoos to wine tastings, Chicago offers plenty of free or cheap things to do no matter the season.
Brookfield Zoo Chicago, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, [2] [3] is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of 216 acres (87 ha). It opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches instead of cages to separate ...
DuSable Museum of African American History. Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Irish American Heritage Center. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. National Hellenic Museum. National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.
40. Chicago Jazz Festival. The Chicago Jazz Festival is an annual event that takes place in Millennium Park on Labor Day Weekend. Neighborhood concerts lead up to the festival, held at locations ...
The Chicago Public Library has a Kids Museum Passport program that offers free museum passes for a dozen local attractions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum and ...
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ( MSI, formerly known as the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
For 2024, the zoo is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through May 24 and from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 25 through September 2. Fall and winter hours have not been announced yet. The ...