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Q. We are trying to limit our driving time to no more than 5 hours. We would like to go someplace where the kids can have fun with us instead of just being dragged along for the ride. Any ideas? Thanks to anyone who answers.
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I'd like to mount a campaign to encourage people not to go anywhere. Travel has become so expensive and unpleasant that it's hard to understand why people don't stay home.
Why are we crowding our highways and airports to get someplace else? Newspapers and magazines are filled with ads trying to get us to travel. They want us to go somewhere - anywhere but home.
I'd like to mount a campaign to encourage people not to go anywhere. Travel has become so expensive and unpleasant that it's hard to understand why people don't stay home.
Why are we crowding our highways and airports to get someplace else? Newspapers and magazines are filled with ads trying to get us to travel. They want us to go somewhere - anywhere but home.
What is there to do in Chicago with a toddler?
Ashley
I am going to Chicago for Thanksgiving and I am taking my 22 month old daughter. I am looking for things to do that is not extremely expenisve but fun and interesting for her. Please someone help me figure this out.
Answer
There's the Thanksgiving Day parade down State Street, which is free (once you get downtown) and has big balloons and everything else you'd expect from a big parade.
http://www.chicagofestivals.org/
There's Navy Pier, home of the Chicago Children's museum, among other attractions. The Pier is expensive to park at, but not expensive to get to by bus or better yet the city's free trolleys.
http://kid-friendly-travel-destinations.suite101.com/article.cfm/navy_pier_chicago
http://www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org/
The three best museums to consider are (and all are free for your daughter)
1) The Notebaert Nature Museum, in Lincoln Park, which has a year round butterfly haven with hatchings every day, that may interest a toddler; it'll certainly interest you, which may generate interest in your child. $9 for you.
http://www.naturemuseum.org/
2) The Shedd Aquarium: Look! colorful fish! Now the Shedd is very pricey, but if you decide you don't care about seeing whales and dolphins, then you can substantially cut the cost of the Shedd. The cheapest admit, to the older building only, costs just $8 for you. The full pass costs $27.50 for you.
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/index.html
3) The Museum of Science and Industry, which has a baby chick hatchery that appeals to kids of all ages. The Jollyball machine also may catch your child's attention (It's a huge wild homemade "pinball" machine...in which a ball travels through Switzerland...much cooler in person than the description. There's also lots of stuff (trains, airplanes, farm equipment) that kids can climb in and on. $11 for you, plus $12 for the car (there is CTA service from downtown).
http://www.msichicago.org
And then there are the Macy's (Formerly Field's) holiday windows at the massive store on State at Washington, which this year have a nutcracker theme. Free, unless you obey the siren song of the department store and walk in. :)
I'd recommend some children's theater if you child were a year older, but a 22-month old won't likely get much out of that.
There's the Thanksgiving Day parade down State Street, which is free (once you get downtown) and has big balloons and everything else you'd expect from a big parade.
http://www.chicagofestivals.org/
There's Navy Pier, home of the Chicago Children's museum, among other attractions. The Pier is expensive to park at, but not expensive to get to by bus or better yet the city's free trolleys.
http://kid-friendly-travel-destinations.suite101.com/article.cfm/navy_pier_chicago
http://www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org/
The three best museums to consider are (and all are free for your daughter)
1) The Notebaert Nature Museum, in Lincoln Park, which has a year round butterfly haven with hatchings every day, that may interest a toddler; it'll certainly interest you, which may generate interest in your child. $9 for you.
http://www.naturemuseum.org/
2) The Shedd Aquarium: Look! colorful fish! Now the Shedd is very pricey, but if you decide you don't care about seeing whales and dolphins, then you can substantially cut the cost of the Shedd. The cheapest admit, to the older building only, costs just $8 for you. The full pass costs $27.50 for you.
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/index.html
3) The Museum of Science and Industry, which has a baby chick hatchery that appeals to kids of all ages. The Jollyball machine also may catch your child's attention (It's a huge wild homemade "pinball" machine...in which a ball travels through Switzerland...much cooler in person than the description. There's also lots of stuff (trains, airplanes, farm equipment) that kids can climb in and on. $11 for you, plus $12 for the car (there is CTA service from downtown).
http://www.msichicago.org
And then there are the Macy's (Formerly Field's) holiday windows at the massive store on State at Washington, which this year have a nutcracker theme. Free, unless you obey the siren song of the department store and walk in. :)
I'd recommend some children's theater if you child were a year older, but a 22-month old won't likely get much out of that.
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