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The most popular cultural attraction in Chicago is the Field Museum of Natural History. Sitting along Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan, it is part of the Museum Campus along with the Adler Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium.
After the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, people wanted to create a permanent museum to hold many of […]
The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum opened in 1930 and was the first planetarium built in the Western Hemisphere. It is home to two full-size theaters, including the world’s first all-digital projection StarRider Theater. It stands on Northerly Island (next to Charter One Pavilion), which was initially meant to be the first of several man-made […]
This season of the Bravo network’s Top Chef was filmed here in Chicago, exposing competing chefs from all over the country to all the culinary treats the Windy City has to offer.
This week’s Quickfire challenge required each of the chefs to create a dish using no more than five ingredients (excluding salt, pepper, sugar, and […]
Your little princess deserves to be treated like one, right? So for her next birthday, check out the great food, good fun, and luxurious accommodations at Kreative Kreations in Glen Ellyn. This is the perfect venue for kids to get hands-on and create their own fun.
Little ladies can start their celebration by designing their own […]
“Necessity is the mother of Invention.” Well, these two Chicago moms needed a place to get fashionable, comfortable duds for their little ones. When they couldn’t find one, they decided to create their own.
When designer Nicole Rairigh gave birth to her first daughter Ashor, her line of mini-wear, a.k.a. Ashor’s Room, was also born. Rairigh […]
The technology of entertainment is moving swiftly along. CDs, mp3s, mpegs, DVDs, high-def… It seems as though the moment we imagine the next step, it already exists. However, there was a time when none of this existed. Before television, before radio, there was Vaudeville. And amidst all the gadgets and doodads of today’s society, vaudeville […]
You are a dancing machine! Or, at least, you were, up until you had kids. Now you’re a diaper-changing, stain-cleaning, tyke-chasing machine. If the dance floor is still calling your name under all that toddler-hollering, check out Baby Loves Disco.
This dance party allows clubbers and their little dance partners to have fun together. Started in […]
Some moms save everything. Book reports, baby teeth, art projects… but if your little Picasso’s creations are starting to wallpaper your refrigerator, it may be time to talk to Susan Fleming at Stitch (just south of Hot Chocolate).
Watercolors, crayons, pencil scribbles: Susan has seen it all. She’ll shrink it all down to a manageable size […]
Many kids love trains, and for most of them, their fascination begins with one engine in particular: Thomas. But you and your kids don’t have to go all the way to the fictional Island of Sodor to find Thomas and his friends. Many of the Thomas toys are designed right here in the Chicagoland area […]
Sometimes, taking kids out to eat is an incredible chore. You have to get them dressed, order food they won’t scoff at, and keep them entertained throughout the meal. A few restaurants in the Chicagoland area though are perfect for children though, playing on many of their fascinations with trains.
One of the oldest eateries […]
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