Chicago has attractions and activities for a family on vacation, someone visiting for business, or a couple searching for romance.  Scenic tours, amusement and fun centers including: DisneyQuest, ESPN Zone, and Six Flags Great America are here to thrill.  Museums, shopping, fine dinging, and educational attractions including: The Hancock Observatory, The Shedd Aquarium, and the Chicago Academy of Science  are here to entertain.  The nightlife in Chicago is second to none. Everything you could possibly want is right down the street from where you are staying. If you are looking for a night on the town you found it. Dance clubs with all types of music, theatre, movies, shopping, pubs, live entertainment, and family fun are all on the menu when the sun goes down.

You will never go hungry while in Chicago.  There will be many restaurants and cuisines ranging from seafood to steaks and atmospheres ranging from casual to formal..  You will be able to choose from many restaurants with themes and entertainment or great seascapes while on a dinner cruise.   Great food available anytime of day or night is what you will find in Chicago.  Shopping is also on the menu.  Everything you could want from everyday items to unique souvenirs can be found right down the street.  Shopping  is all around, visit Water Tower Place and you'll find everything you want in an atmosphere you can enjoy.

Chicago has the lot: itinerant artists babbling Beat, Polish aunties stuffing sausage, African-American mothers organising the block, blue-collar guys bad-mouthing the Bears, a crooner singing the blues on the South Side. It's a city that wears its American heart proudly on its sleeve.
This diverse mix has built a city with an unrivalled tradition of jazz and blues, an astonishing architecture, an appetite for hearty food, award-winning newspapers, universities full of Nobel laureates and some of the most die-hard sports fans you'll ever meet.

On a cold, brutally windy day in Chicago, when the temperature's subzero and strong gusts stop you in your tracks, the first question that will come to mind is, 'Who the hell decided to build a city and settle here?' Well, nearly three million hardy souls now call this great city home, and they can thank the mettle and vision of their Irish, Italian, German, Polish, Mexican and Asian immigrant forebears, and others who migrated here from the southern US for creating it.
Area: 588 sq km
Population: 2.9 million
Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT/UTC -6 (Central Time)
Telephone Area Code: 312 inside the Loop; 773 outside