1927: The Stevens Hotel — then the largest hotel in the world — opened on Michigan Avenue. The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete ...

Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Pop culture convention featuring ... April 13, at the Illinois Railway Museum, 7000 Olson Road, Union. Gates open at 9:15 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Young visitors will ...

Bunny Trolley Hop: Time slots from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Illinois Railway Museum ... at The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Discover the natural world ...

Pyszka, City of Chicago) Regina Agu: Shore|Lines continues at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) through May 17. The exhibition was curated by ...

Bike the Tammany Trace Originally constructed as a corridor for the Illinois Central Railroad ... you could fly into Hammond North Shore Regional Airport (HDC). How to Get Around The Northshore ...

Founded in 1854 by German immigrants from the Chicago ... Museum, set in the old 1896 Lightkeeper’s House, tells much of this story, chronicling shipwrecks, early settlers, and life on the North ...

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A “mechanical issue” discovered during preparations for the 2025 season has led the Illinois Railway Museum to remove its ...

The list includes a Frank Lloyd Wright home in Austin, a former school in Avalon Park and an outdoor theater in South Shore.

Railroad Days was created ‘to create a national tourism event that really celebrated the railroad and industry heritage of ...

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