Opened in 1933, the oldest science Museum of its kind in the Western Hemisphere attracts approximately 2 million visitors per year. The Museum (MSI) is located in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood. It is housed in the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the former Palace of Fine Arts (also known as the Fine Arts Building). It is one of the largest cultural attraction in Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier fine art museums. Located adjacent to Chicago, Illinois's Loop and Grant Park, the Museum is especially known for its extensive collection of Impressionist and American art, and also boasts an extended collection of master works garnering international praise. It is located on the western edge of Grant Park, at 111 South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District, in a building designed by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge (1892). It is the third most popular cultural attraction in Chicago.

This is Chicago's South Side equivalent of Mardi Gras. As the story goes...On a rainy Saturday, March 17, 1979, George and Pat, with the help of their wives, Mary and Marianne (Mernie), gathered 17 children from the West Morgan Park community to march in the first South Side Irish St. Pat’s Parade. The children were the only marchers: Tim Kelly was dressed as St. Patrick; Eileen Hughes was the parade’s first and only queen; a few Boy Scouts, including Jack and George Hendry and Pat and Kevin Coakley, carried the American flag; and the parade’s original float, a baby buggy covered with a box decorated with shamrocks and the 26 county flags of Ireland, was pushed around the 10900 blocks of Washtenaw and Talman. The children were given the moniker “The Wee Folks of Washtenaw and Talman”. The theme of the parade was “Bring Back St. Pat”, which was George and Pat’s way of saying bring back to the South Side the parade they had cherished as children. Notices of the parade which were placed in mailboxes along the “route” invited neighbors to stand on their porches and wave to the marchers. Immediately following the parade, the children were invited to the Hendry’s basement for Kool-aid and Twinkies. Later that evening, the adults continued the party in the Coakley’s basement until the “wee” hours.

Cantigny Park is a publicly-open 1,000-acre (4.0 km˛) estate in Wheaton, a town located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located on Winfield Road, just south of Illinois Route 38. There are acres of formal and informal gardens, picnic groves and hiking paths, and two museums. The 35-room Robert R. McCormick Museum is the former residence of Joseph Medill, one of the first editors of the Chicago Tribune, and later the home of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, its famous 20th century publisher. The residence is open to the public for tours as an historic house museum, overseen by the Cantigny Foundation, a division of the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation. The First Division Museum is devoted to the First Division of the United States Army—also known as the Big Red One—in which McCormick served as a colonel during World War I. He named his estate after Cantigny, a small village in France which was the scene of fighting during World War I which involved the First Division. After McCormick's death, the Trustees of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, acting on McCormick's wishes, invited noted German-American landscape architect Franz Lipp to design a series of landscapes and idea gardens around the residence for the general public's enjoyment. Colonel McCormick, alongside his first wife Amy, is also buried on the grounds at Cantigny. Lastly, there is also a public golf course at Cantigny Park.