Climb a Schooner, Dig a Dinosaur: Chicago Children’s Museum at Navy Pier
At Navy Pier, the Chicago Children’s Museum builds childhood at full scale: kids can climb a three-story schooner to the crow’s nest, excavate dinosaur bones...
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Four Acres of Pure Childhood: The Children’s Garden at The Morton Arboretum
In Lisle, The Morton Arboretum’s Children’s Garden might be the happiest four acres in Illinois: a wonderland of tree forts, streams to splash in, climbing...
The Children’s Library of Dreams: Chicago Public Library for Families
On the ground floor of the grand Harold Washington Library downtown, the Thomas Hughes Children’s Library turns reading into an adventure: a soaring, colorful space...
Where the Wild Things Play: Brookfield Zoo Chicago for Families
Twenty minutes from the Loop, Brookfield Zoo Chicago spreads 235 acres of animal adventures across Brookfield – from the dolphins of Seven Seas to the...
A Free Tropical Escape in the City: Family Day at Garfield Park Conservatory
One of the largest conservatories in America sits on Chicago’s West Side – and admission is free. Garfield Park Conservatory shelters whole landscapes under glass:...
Make Art Like a Master at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryan Learning Center
Behind the famous lions, the Art Institute of Chicago keeps a family secret: the Ryan Learning Center, a free, light-filled space where kids can build...
Blast Off at the Adler Planetarium: Chicago’s Sky Museum for Families
At the tip of Northerly Island, the Adler Planetarium has been showing Chicago the universe since 1930 – and its family welcome is stellar. In...
Butterflies Land on Your Shoulder at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
In Lincoln Park, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum – home of the Chicago Academy of Sciences – is Chicago’s gentlest science museum, and for many...
A Submarine, a Storm and a Whispering Gallery: Family Science at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is less a museum than a small city of science. Families can walk through a real captured German...
