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For the leisure travel professional |
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 Uncommon Ground
Within steps of Chicago's grand-scale museums are countless smaller institutions which zero in on fascinating aspects of art, history, and science. Combine visits to these out-of-the-ordinary spots as counterpoint to a major museum tour. Or plan an entire trip around these unique wonders. Either way, your group will be delighted to explore Chicago's intriguing specialized museums.
Steps from Chicago’s grand-scale museums, countless smaller institutions explore unique aspects of art, history, and science. Combine visits to these out-of-the-ordinary spots with your group’s major museum tour, or plan an entire trip for them around Chicago’s intriguing specialized museums.
In Prairie Avenue Historic District - Chicago’s grandest neighborhood during the late 1800s - the glorious past is alive in Glessner House Museum. This departure from typical Victorian architecture holds one of the country’s premier collections of furniture and decorative objects from the Aesthetic and English Arts and Crafts movements. Schedule a tour by the Executive Director to show your group private areas of this "urban masterpiece" and collections not shown to the general public.
Chicago’s oldest home, Clarke House Museum, shows how a middle-class family lived in an urban frontier and during the city’s formative years. The nearby National Historic Landmark Second Presbyterian Church features extraordinary Louis Comfort Tiffany and Edward Burne-Jones stained glass windows and pre-Raphaelite murals by Frederic Clay Bartlett.
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In partnership with American Airlines, the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau (CCTB) has developed Chicago Select, a unique program designed to promote the city of Chicago during the need periods of January – March of 2009, 2010, 2011. Groups will enjoy extraordinary value when they visit during those months. Chicago Select is packed full of never-before-seen offers, including:
• 40% to 75% off published zone fares on American Airlines tickets for groups of 10+
• Earn 750 bonus points in American Airlines Business ExtrAA© Program
• Up to 50% off published hotel rates
• 50% off The Field Museum Highlights Tour with a private docent
Click here for more information.
Chicago stars as Gotham City in the newly-released Batman movie, The Dark Knight. It is getting rave reviews, oh, and so is the movie. Run, don’t walk, to spy all your favorite Chicago places and some phenomenal stunts and special effects in this blockbuster film. Looking for more information about movies filmed in Chicago? Click here.
Buckingham Fountain, one of the city's most iconic treasures, will begin its most comprehensive restoration project ever on September 3, 2008. The fountain closes Sept. 2, about two months earlier than last year, and is expected to be ready by the April 2009 visit of the International Olympic Committee. This $25 million renovation is the second project requiring the fountain's extended closing in the last 15 years, and is expected to produce an even more spectacular water and lighting show. The 81-year-old Grant Park centerpiece will be tented, the plumbing will be overhauled, and the leaky outer basin will be taken apart, repaired and reassembled. | | |
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