The Chicago Traveler

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 islands along the lakeshore.
In 1923, Dr. Walther Bauersfeld of the Carl Zeiss Corporation in Germany designed a projector fully capable of accurately reproducing the night sky. Placed in the center of a hemispherical room, the machine produced a precise celestial map onto the inner surface …read more

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Chicagoans have a love-hate relationship with Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island. Many of us love what it has to offer, but we hate how it came to be and how it has to exist.
Northerly Island, a manmade peninsula that extends into Lake Michigan, was the home of former Meigs Field, a single-strip airport. Numerous VIPs, including celebrities and political figures, used this airport to easily maintain security without inconveniencing Chicago traffic.
However, in 2003, Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered private crews to destroy the runway in the middle of the night, bulldozing huge X-shaped gashes into the runway surface, rendering …read more

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Love to jam in your jammies? Check out the World’s Largest Pajama Party on Friday, July 13. Located at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island, Victoria’s Secret is celebrating the launch of their new loungewear collection—PINK—by throwing a huge dance party. The doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the dance pit will be hoppin’ when DJ AM starts spinnin’. And it will only get better when Fergie takes over the stage. Yay Fergie! This show will be nothing less than G-L-A-M-O-R-OUS. Download FREE tickets at http://vspink.com/
Art lovers will flock to the Chicago Tribune Magnificent Mile Art Festival this weekend. …read more

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