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Kids’ Chicago

Emerald City
1
Theatre Company
MAP D2 • 2936 N. Southport Ave.
• 1-773-529-2690 • Open Oct–May
• www.emeraldcitytheatre.com
• Adm
In Chicago there’s a theater company
for every demographic and Emerald
City is its troupe devoted to young
audiences. Expect lively productions
such as Where the Wild Things Are as
well as holiday-season shows in
weekend-only midday matinees at
Lincoln Park’s Apollo Theater.
Display in Chicago Children’s Museum
Maggie Daley Park
2 Chicago Children’s
This 20-acre park (see p75),
Museum
tucked between Millennium Park 3
and Lake Shore Drive, is a superb MAP M3 • 700 E. Grand Ave. • 312-527-
recreation area. The vast Play 1000 • Opening times vary • Adm
Garden for kids aged 12 and under • www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org
has a pirate ship, swinging bridge, The engrossing, imaginative exhibits
rope ladder, and Enchanted Forest here emphasize doing – be it digging
with meandering paths and a rolling up a dinosaur bone or designing a
Wave Lawn. A seasonal ice ribbon water channel. A central, three-story
makes a curvy path around the rope tunnel immediately snares the
park’s two rock climbing walls, attention of older visitors, though
which include routes for beginners there are age-appropriate attractions
(children must be able to wear the for infants to pre-teens. If this place
harnesses provided, which generally can’t exhaust the younger set’s
do not fit children under the age of 4), energies, nowhere can.
as well as for advanced climbers.
Wrigley Field
4
0 km 2 A baseball-lover’s park, Wrigley
ADDISON RD 0 miles 2 is a small and intimate stadium that’s
LAKEVIEW
far less intimi dating for children than
many larger stadia (see p87). A ticket
ASHLAND AVE N LINCOLN AVE to anywhere in the grandstand allows
LAKE SHORE DRIVE
you to walk around and get to the
Lake
NORTH CLARK STREET
LINCOLN Michigan rooftop terrace: the outfield stands
PARK can get rowdy, but a neigh boring
HALSTED AVE family section bans the beer that
NORTH AVENUE
DIVISION ST fuels the “bleacher bums.”
OLD TOWN
Elevated Trains
CHICAGO AVE CHICAGO AVE 5
MICHIGAN AVE “L”) provide an inexpensive roofline
GRAND AVE GRAND AVE Chicago’s elevated trains (the
WASHINGTON BLVD tour of the city. The Brown Line in
DOWNTOWN particular warrants a ride from
ASHLAND AVE ROOSEVELT RD Chicago Station over the Chicago
River and around the Loop, threading
CERMAK ROAD SOUTH SIDE DRIVE LAKE SHORE 6 miles between the massive buildings of
the financial district (see p108).
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