CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Important festivals:

• Lollapalooza music festival,
• Thanksgiving parade
• Taste of Chicago (food fair)
• St Patrick's Day (when they dye the Chicago river green)

Professional sports teams (consider to see the game):

• Baseball: Chicago Cubs and White Socks
• Basketball: Chicago Bulls
• NFL: Chicago Bears
• Hockey: Chicago Blackhawks 

*By the way, next to the home of the Chicago Cubs called Wrigley Field there is a nice bar area where you can hangout.

Popular foods:

• Deep-dish pizza
• Chicago-style hot dog
• Italian beef sandwich.

*Fun fact:  the name Chicago came from the local word which means wild onion or garlic. 

the LOOP(the main section of Downtown Chicago):

Grant park:

Buckingham Fountain
Millennium Park:

• Bean (officially called cloud gate)
• Jay Pritzker Pavilion
• the Crown Fountain
• the Lurie Garden,
• BP Pedestrian Bridge and the Nichols Bridgeway. 

Chicago Water Tower

Chicago Union Station(major railroad station)

Sears Tower (now known as Willis Tower)

Museums and parks:

• Art Institute of Chicago
• the Harold Washington Library
• the Chicago Cultural Center
• the Shedd aquarium
• the museum of science
• Lincoln Park Zoo and conservatory
• Hyde Park
• and others. 

*on the streets of Chicago you can also come across sculptures by famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Juan Miro, and Marc Chagall.

Places to see stage performances:

• Auditorium Theater
• the City Opera House
• the Harris Theatre
• the Goodman Theatre

More interesting places and things to do:

• The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge (place Al Capone used to hang out)
• Chicago beaches
• Boat excursions down the Chicago River, including large architectural tours
• Shopping at Michigan Avenue
• Navy Pier
• University of Chicago campus
• Frederick C. Robie House, a work of a famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.