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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This DK Eyewitness travel guide helps trips outside the city center. Beyond Chicago
you get the most from your stay in Chicago. delves into destinations in the region ideal
Introducing Chicago locates the city for either day trips or longer sojourns, such
geographically, sets modern Chicago in as weekend getaways. Restaurant and
its historical context, and describes events hotel recommendations, as well as specially
through the entire year. Chicago at a Glance selected information about shops and
highlights the city’s top attractions. The entertainment, are found in Travelers’ Needs.
main sightseeing section of the book is The Survival Guide gives practical information
Chicago Area by Area. It describes the city on everyday needs, from using Chicago’s
sights, with photographs, maps, and medical system and public transportation
drawings. It also offers suggestions for day to the telephone system.

Finding your way around the Sightseeing Section
Each of the sightseeing areas in covered, located by numbers around the chapter is made
Chicago is color-coded for easy on an area map. This is followed simple by the numbering
reference. Each chapter opens by a Street-by-Street map, system used throughout.
with a description of the area illustrating an interesting part Sights outside Chicago have
and a list of sights to be of the area. Finding your way a regional map.

CHIC A GO AREA B Y AREA  61 Each area has color-
NORTH SIDE coded thumb tabs.
Just north of the Chicago River, Chicago’s the ashes, and today the Magnificent
North Side encompasses several Mile, Gold Coast, Streeterville, and River
neighborhoods, most settled in the North are all upscale residential and
mid-1880s by Irish, German, and Swedish shopping districts. Modest Old Town is
immigrants. Tragically, the 1871 fire razed an eclectic mix of residences, shops, and
the entire area. The communities rose from entertainment venues.
Restaurants pp149–51 8 Gibson’s Steakhouse 20 Mity Nice Bar and Grill
1 Billy Goat Tavern 9 Gino’s East 21 MK Restaurant Area Map For easy reference, the
22 Mr. Beef
2 Café Iberico 10 Hugo’s Frog Bar and 23 NoMI Kitchen
3 Café Spiaggia Fish House 24 Osterio Via Stato
4 Capital Grille 11 Foodlife 25 P.F. Chang’s 1sights in each area are numbered and
5 Coco Pazzo 12 Frontera Grill 26 Pizzeria Uno
6 Cyrano’s Farm Kitchen 13 Joe’s Seafood, Prime 27 Portillo’s Hot Dogs
7 David Burke’s Steak & Stone Crab 28 Quartino
Primehouse 14 Kiki’s Bistro 29 RA Sushi Bar plotted on a map of the area. The map
15 Lawry’s The Prime Rib 30 Rosebud Steakhouse
16 Le Colonial 31 Roy’s
17 Les Nomades
W MENOMONEE ST 18 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria 32 Signature Room at the 95th also shows CTA and Metra stations
33 Spiaggia
W WILLOW ST 19 Mike Ditka’s Restaurant
34 The Pump Room
35 The Purple Pig
W EUGENIE ST
N FERN CT
36 Topolobampo
LASALLE DRIVE
NORTH CLARK STREET
SEDGWICK STREET
37 Tru and major parking areas, as well as
NORTH WELLS STREET
N HUDSON AVE
Sedgwick 38 Wildfire
W NORTH AVENUE
39 Xoco
W BURTON PL N ASTOR ST indicating the area covered by the
N ORLEANS ST
N NORTH PARK AVE
N WIELAND STREET
W SCHILLER ST NORTH LASALLE STREET NORTH STATE PARKWAY
E BANKS ST Street-by-Street map. The sights are
W GOETHE STREET E GOETHE ST 0 meters 500
0 yards 500
E SCOTT ST
NORTH DEARBORN STREET
NORTH CLARK STREET
Clark/ also shown on the Chicago Street
W DIVISION STREET Division E DIVISION ST
WEST ELM STREET E ELM ST
E CEDAR ST
W HILL ST
W MAPLE ST E BELLEVUE PL Finder on pages 188–201.
W SCOTT ST NORTH WELLS STREET
8 •10 NO RTH LAKE SHORE D RIV E NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
WEST OAK STREET N RUSH ST E OAK ST 3 •33 E LAKE SHORE DR
Sights at a Glance WALTON ST W E WALTON ST E WALTON PL
Historic Buildings and Streets Modern Skyscrapers Shopping Streets NORTH ORLEANS STREET W LOCUST ST E DELAWARE PL
1 Wrigley Building 7 John Hancock Center 8 Oak Street W CHESTNUT ST W CHESTNUT ST E CHESTNUT ST WAY VAN DER ROHE MIES N DEWITT PL See also Streetfinder
2 Tribune Tower e Marina City and IBM Building Piers and Beaches Chicago NORTH LASALLE STREET Chicago E PEARSON ST maps 1& 2
3 Hotel InterContinental Chicago x Trump International Hotel & Tower W CHICAGO AVE E CHICAGO AVE
5 Water Tower and Pumping Station Churches and Cathedrals q Navy Pier E SUPERIOR ST
9 Drake Hotel 6 Fourth Presbyterian Church z Oak Street Beach N WELLS STREET W SUPERIOR ST
t Richard H. Driehaus Museum and y St. James Episcopal Cathedral W HURON ST E HURON ST
Ransom R. Cable Houses WEST ERIE STREET NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE E ERIE STREET
9 •38
i Newberry Library u Archdiocese of Chicago and WEST ONTARIO STREET N ST CLAIR STREET EAST ONTARIO ST
Chapel of St. James
p Menomonee Street o St. Michael’s Church N FRANKLIN ST WEST OHIO STREET EAST OHIO STREET
a Wacker Houses NORTH STATE STREET N WABASH ST
s Crilly Court and Olsen-Hansen Museums and Galleries WEST GRAND AVENUE Grand N RUSH ST E GRAND AVE N MCCLURG COURT
Row Houses 4 Hershey’s Chicago WEST ILLINOIS STREET E ILLINOIS ST
NORTH FAIRBANKS COURT
f 1550 North State Parkway 0 Museum of Contemporary Art WEST HUBBARD STREET 12•36•39
g Residence of the Roman Catholic w Chicago Children’s Museum WEST KINZIE STREET E NORTH WATER ST
Archbishop of Chicago r River North Gallery District
j 1500 North Astor Street d Chicago History Museum Merchandise W CARROLL ST Chicago River
Mart
k Edward P. Russell House h International Museum of
l Charnley-Persky House Surgical Science
Sunset at the downtown distict by the Chicago River For keys to symbols see back flap
42  CHIC A GO AREA B Y AREA DOWNT OWN C ORE  43
Street-by-Street: The Loop NORTH SIDE
A locator map shows where The Loop gets its name from the elevated track system DOWNTOWN CORE
that circles the center of the Downtown Core. Trains
you are in relation to other screeching as they turn sharp corners and the steady stream 9 . Art Institute of Chicago SOUTH LOOP
of businesspeople during rush hour add to the Loop’s bustle.
In the canyon vistas through the many tall, historic
areas in the city center. buildings – and modern edifices such as the Federal Center – The Impressionist and Post- Locator Map
you can catch glimpses of the 19 bridges spanning the
Impressionist collection at this
Chicago River. The conversion of warehouses to
See Street Finder maps 3 & 4
museum, one of the most
condominiums and the renovation of historic theaters have 8 Santa Fe Building important in the country, is
world famous.
helped to enliven the Loop at night.
This classic Chicago School
3 Marquette Building building, with an elegant two- Key
This early skyscraper (1895) was story atrium, houses the Chicago
1 . Willis Tower designed by William Holabird Architecture Foundation. Suggested route
At a height of 1,454 ft and Martin Roche, central
(443 m), this is one of Chicago School figures and
the tallest buildings in architects of more than M O N R O E S T
the world. Views from 80 buildings in the Loop.
the glass-enclosed
A suggested route takes in some of the observation deck on the S O U T H
103rd floor are stunning.
most interesting streets in the area. 190 South LaSalle Street W A B A S H J A C K S O N B L V D
(1987), designed by New S TAT E
York architect Philip
Johnson, has a white-
marble lobby with a gold- M I C H I G A N A V E N U E
leafed, vaulted ceiling.
2 The Rookery S T R E E T
One of the earliest designs by A V E N U E
Burnham and Root, this 1888
building has a lobby that was
remodeled by Frank Lloyd
Wright in 1907. S T R E E T C L A R K P K W Y
C O N G R E S S
A D A M S S T R E E T
S T R E E T The “Elevated,” or “L,”
B U R E N train tracks opened in
1897. Its loop in the city’s
core is seven blocks long
and five blocks wide.
F R A N K L I N
W A C K E R
V A N
5 Monadnock Building
The north half of this building
Street-by-Street Map This gives a D R I V E ever constructed entirely 7 Fine Arts Building
(1891) is the tallest building
S T R E E T
of masonry.
Frank Lloyd Wright once
Chicago Board of Trade
2bird’s-eye view of the most important occupies a 45-story Art Deco 4 Federal Center had a studio in this 1885 6 Auditorium Building
building designed by
Solon S. Beman. The
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
building, with a statue of
building was originally
designed this three-building
Ceres atop its roof. The
The lavish birch paneled theater
in this 1889 multipurpose
frenetic action inside can be
office complex around a central
used as a carriage
part of each sightseeing area. The 0 meters 100 100 seen from a viewers’ gallery plaza, which holds Alexander showroom by the skyscraper, is one of Adler and
Studebaker Company.
Sullivan’s best interiors.
Calder’s 1973 sculpture Flamingo.
(group tours only).
0 yards
For hotels and restaurants see pp142–5 and pp148–57
numbering of the sights ties in
with the area map and the fuller
descriptions on the pages that follow.
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Date 5th November 2012
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