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Fourth Presbyterian
9 A DAY IN THE NEAR NORTH
Church
MAP L2 • 126 E. Chestnut St. Lake
• Open 9am–5pm Mon–Sat, The Original Michigan
Pancake House
7am–5pm Sun • DA
The first Fourth Presbyterian church, Barneys The Drake
New York
dedicated in 1871, celebra ted its first John Hancock
Center
sermon just hours before it was Magnificent Water Tower Place,
incinerated in the Great Fire. Rebuilt Mile Foodlife
Museum of
in 1914, today’s church offers a Park Hyatt Contemporary
Chicago
peaceful respite from Magnificent Peninsula Art
Mile. Designed by Ralph Adams Chicago Chicago Water Works,
Lookingglass Theatre
Cram, one of the architects behind
New York’s Cathedral of St. John the MORNING
Divine, this church has a cathedral-
like interior, with a splendid stained- Line up early with the locals for
glass west window. Free concerts a fortifying stack at The Original
take place on Fridays at noon. Pancake House (22 E. Bellevue
Pl.). Afterward, stroll south on
Rush Street to Oak Street. Take a
left and walk the most exclusive
shopping block in the city, where
you can pop into stores such as
Barneys New York. Once you hit
Michigan Avenue, it’s a short
jaunt to the John Hancock Center
(see p79) for sky-high views. Back
on terra firma, cross the street
to the Chicago Water Works for
a close-up look at a piece of
Chicago’s history. Lovers of modern
art should cross Michigan again
and head to the Museum of
Contemporary Art (see p79).
AFTERNOON
Interior, Fourth Presbyterian Church Everyone will get what they want
for lunch at Foodlife, a food court
Newberry Library
0 on the second level of the mall in
Water Tower Place (see p32). You
MAP K2 • 60 W. Walton St.
• 312-943-9090 • Open 9am–5pm can shop the seven floors of
Mon–Fri (to 1pm Sat) Chicago’s first ever vertical mall,
and then shop some more – and
Founded in 1887 by wealthy Chicago sightsee – along the Magnificent
business man Walter L. Newberry, Mile (see pp32–3). If you’ve
this research library is housed in a worked up an appetite, stroll over
Romanesque-style granite building to The Drake hotel (see p117) for
designed by architect Henry Ives Cob. high tea, which is served until 5pm.
It is stocked with rare books, maps,
manuscripts, and music, and has EVENING
research centers devoted to the Catch a show at Lookingglass
history of cartography, American Theatre, housed in the Water
Indian and Indigenous studies, the Works Pumping Station. Then
Renaissance, and American history head to chic NoMI in the Park
and culture. It also offers seminars Hyatt Chicago (see p83) for dinner
on everything from Greek literature and drinks with panoramic views
of the landmark Water Tower and
to genealogy research. The public downtown Chicago.
can use the collections by applying
for a reader’s card free of charge.
See map on p78
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