Love the views from the Adams Street Bridge to see the river and so many landmarks and Chicago…read moreskyscrapers. Not worth a special visit, but a great bridge to cross when walking in Chicago.

It was closed. I came here and it was closed. I was gaslit into thinking this was a fully…read morefunctional fountain but turns out - it was not. :( Please make it 24/7 pls thx

The Centennial fountain and water arc was a fantastic experience to catch during the Chicago River…read morewalk. The arc goes on top of every hour for 5 to 10 minutes. Its a beauty that is long that shoots water from onside across river to the other. It is also crazy enough to notice the kayakers get excited to soak in the water arc. Dont miss this jem while visiting Chicago. Watching the arc and fountain in the backdrop of Chicago architecture and river is totally worth it.

Got to visit this important part of Chicago history. It may only be the entrance but it's still…read morequite impressive. The Union Stockyards was where most of the meat came from and got packaged. At the entrance was this gate with a cow. You can still go through it, and check out a memorial to city firefighters. A lot of butchering went on here, and it got pretty smelly in this area. It's been redeveloped into an industrial park. The gate was designed by Daniel Burnham and John W. Root in 1879, and is the only important structure still intact from the stock yards. It's located just west of Halsted. This is located on Exchange Avenue at Peoria Street. Beyond here is a memorial to city firefighters. In 1934 a significant fire leveled the yards. A few other fires occurred in its history. The gate was added to the National Register Of Historic Places in 1972, and restored. John D. Sherman was the stockyard superintendent, and he had a favorite bull. This bull was named Sherman, and there's a bust of him on the center arch, welcoming workers to the stockyards where the other bulls weren't as lucky. History is here even though this area looks pretty boring. It's just a bunch of factories and other buildings, with almost no signs of what used to be here. There's not a whole lot of other stuff to look at, but this is pretty cool stuff though.

I also visited Sherman, the bull sitting on top of the grand arch introducing the Chicago…read moreStockyards. Sherman stands for a prize-fighting bull that was named after John Sherman, one of the founders of the Stockyards. This historical site is out of the way but worth a visit if you are a history buff or interested in the culture and flavor of Chicago's past. There is a some good reading on the informative plaque and the arch stands right next to the railroad crossing. You can just imagine the animals traveling on the tracks and the horrific suffering that they and the immigrants working at The Stockyards underwent before Upton Sinclair wrote his muckraking piece "The Jungle." The drive back will also take you through the South Side of Chicago to see the infamous neighborhood, and you can roll out around Hyde Park to check out the old grounds from the Chicago Exposition of 1895.

If you enjoy being surrounded by nature ,park ,lake and skyline , this view will surely take your…read morebreath away. Don't forget to bring your camera to capture this picturesque moment!!

Absolutely amazing view of the skyline with greenery! Perfect for a stroll in the park right in the…read morecity and short walk to the lake shore and beach. Great spot for the quintessential Chicago photo. Make your way over

Chicago has a first class China Town with regards to food. The area's entrance, or gate is a cool…read morefeature for the businesses. I've seen more impressive like San Francisco. It's a place to get a photo op at a minimum. The Chinese restaurants are actually on both sides of the main road.

An important part of any Chinatown is the gate. It proudly stands at the entrances to these…read moreneighborhoods letting people know this is where Chinese Americans call home. Lots of authentic restaurants and shops around here. Even though these kinds of gates aren't unique, it's still a Impressive work of architecture. There's usually announcements about festivals posted onto it so check it out to find out what's going on. Gate is located at the north entrance to Chinatown on Wentworth Avenue. It has a design based on a gate in Beijing. This has an inscription in Chinese. It reads "the world belong to all." This is an important message about inclusion. It seems to be a popular place for selfies and making Instagram posts, so watch out for these people if you happen to be driving. The gate was designed by Peter Fung, a notable Chinese American architect who designed other things around here. A very quick walk from the CTA station on Cermak. It's at the intersection of Archer and Wentworth before the main Chinatown entrance. There's more to Chinatown north of it too.

Today you can get chef Luchiano's Kitchen and Chicken (since 1991) from one of the original White…read moreCaste locations- which is located at Wabash and Cermack - if you want White Castle then you just look kitty-corner and there you have it! According to the Chicago landmark plaque, "this tiny white glazed brick building is the best surviving example in Chicago of the buildings built by the White Castle system of eating houses." It is technically Whitecastle number 16.

Certainly there's many historic sites in Chicago. Fort Dearborn was located here and was an…read moreimportant site in the War Of 1812. It had a very strategic location along the river. Has a monument next to the Michigan Avenue bridge. The fort no longer exists, but there's information to read about it though. A long history of this fort. It was first built in 1803 and named after General and Secretary Of War Henry Dearborn, who was in command for Thomas Jefferson. This fort was destroyed in the War Of 1812, but was rebuilt after a few years. Basically nothing happened here after. The fort was decommissioned in 1837 and the troops left. Parts were lost in 1855 because of widening the river, and a couple years later there was a fire. There was later another one, The Great Chicago Fire Of 1871, which destroyed the rest of this. On the south end of the Michigan Avenue bridge are a couple murals. This is the former location of the fort, and you can read a few plaques. For those interested, they can find out more about it. If wanting to look at actual pieces of the fort, a few boards are in the Chicago History Museum. There was a replica made in 1899, in 1839 the Chicago City Council added another star to the city flag to represent the fort, and in 1971 the site was made a landmark where it can be read about at Michigan and Wacker.

Very cool and iconic monument on a very cool and iconic bridge. Right on Michigan and a great view…read moreonto the river.

The Kluczynski building is part of a larger federal complex. It shares a plaza with the downtown…read morepost office, and across the street is the Dirksen federal courthouse, with the three forming the Federal Plaza. It is architecturally significant because it is a building designed by Mies van de Rohe, along with the other buildings. One thing that is somewhat distinct, and pleases the part of me that likes things symmetrical and neat, is that the seams of the building line up with the stones used in the plaza surrounding each building. My understanding is that this was done to establish a cohesion between the three buildings, even though they're separated by Dearborn Street. I absorbed some Mies history during the 11 years I worked for the university at which he remains the most famous person associated with it (even over 50 years after his death). The Kluczynski building is classical Mies architecture. The first floor is recessed from the rest of the building, and is fully wrapped in glass. There's no offices really on this floor, as is the case in so many of his other buildings, where the first floor is almost always a common space. Black steel and glass that rises 45 stories into the air is typically Miesian. In addition to being a Mies building, the Flamingo by Alexander Calder--one of Chicago's most recognizable pieces of public art--is located in the plaza between the Kluczynski building and the post office. This building houses offices for several different federal organizations: Labor, the Passport Agency, the federal credit union, the offices for the senators for Illinois, OPM, etc. You'll absolutely need ID when entering this building so come prepared.