A historic Chinese-American neighborhood on the South Side known for its pagoda-topped gate, dim sum restaurants, and the Chinatown Square shopping plaza along Wentworth Ave.

North America's largest convention center, hosting major trade shows and conventions on the lakefront just south of downtown.

A peninsula (once an island) on Lake Michigan, now a nature park and outdoor concert venue (Huntington Bank Pavilion), just south of the Museum Campus.

Home of the Chicago Bears NFL team, a lakefront stadium known for its distinctive blend of a classical colonnade and a modern glass-and-steel bowl.

One of the world's largest natural history museums, home to Sue, the largest and most complete T. rex fossil ever found.

America's first planetarium, offering space science exhibits and sky shows on the shore of Lake Michigan.

One of the five Great Lakes, forming Chicago's eastern border and defining much of the city's identity and skyline views.

Chicago's "front yard," a sprawling downtown park hosting Lollapalooza, the Taste of Chicago, and other major events.