The View From Atop The Willis Tower Skydeck Will Amplify Your Trip To Chicago

May 4
08:04

2011

Benny Stevens

Benny Stevens

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The year 2010 we chose to take a excursion and go through the culture and attractions which have rendered Chicago famous. We'd never been there before, but we had been determined to check out as many of the Chicago tourist attractions as we could to ensure that everyone saw something they found interesting.

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The year 2010 we chose to take a excursion and go through the culture and attractions which have rendered Chicago famous. We'd never been there before,The View From Atop The Willis Tower Skydeck Will Amplify Your Trip To Chicago Articles but we had been determined to check out as many of the Chicago tourist attractions as we could to ensure that everyone saw something they found interesting. This wasn’t likely to be a simple trip since our numbers included everything from a sports enthusiast to a serious academic.

We started our drive around Chicago at the Shedd Aquarium. This developed into a fascinating experience simply because of the dimensions of the location. You can’t help but be overwhelmed by the aquarium as well as the variety of animals that this houses. Apparently the Shedd Aquarium is actually the largest indoor marine mammal habitat in the world.

Even if this was just one of the leading Chicago tourist attractions we wanted to see, we spent quite a while here. It couldn’t be helped. All things considered, there are more than 32,000 animals housed here, and they've got a 3-million gallon saltwater oceanarium. You could possibly easily spend your entire day observing the octopi, whales, dolphins, exotic fish, and anything else. But there is more to discover in such a city, so we eventually left.

Our next stop was at the famous Wrigley Field. This really is essentially the most recognizable stadiums in all of baseball, and even though none among us were really big Cubs fans, we decided it would be worth visiting a game. There are many of die-hard fans at the games, but we still listed it as one of the primary Chicago tourist attractions that people wanted to visit. The game was enjoyable, however the atmosphere within the stadium was even better.

Eventually we made our route to the Willis Tower Skydeck. This has been formerly termed as a Sears Tower, and it has been one of the most famous Chicago tourist attractions for many years. This tower really needs to be seen to be believed. It stands 1,353 feet high, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere and on a clear day you can view for 40 to 50 miles within the Skydeck.

We stayed on the Willis Tower Skydeck long enough to view the sunset before we left. Seeing the sun drop over the Chicago skyline from this high up is something that you'll always remember. When we finally left the tower, though, we were treated to one more ride on the elevators that could almost be considered a tourist attraction in their own right given that they travel at about 1,600 feet per minute.

We made a decision to make the Field Museum the last of our Chicago tourist attractions. This developed into an extremely interesting stop that was both cultural and educational. The Field Museum has over 26 million artifacts that cover everything from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt to underground adventures. We saw SUE, the most complete and greatest preserved T. Rex fossil yet discovered, and 23 different mummies.

When we left Chicago we felt like we had seen and experienced plenty of different attractions. Some of us were hoping to learn something totally new and some just wanted the experience of a baseball game. It took some preparing to see each one of these Chicago tourist attractions, but when we left we were all glad that we went.