Places to visit in Illinois, United States
13 places to visit in Illinois, United States, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: 875 North Michigan Avenue, Art Institute of Chicago, Bahá'í House of Worship and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Illinois volume.
11 Famous places to visit · 2 Hidden gems
Famous places to visit in Illinois (11)
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875 North Michigan Avenue
A 100-storey, 344-metre tower on the Magnificent Mile, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Rahman Khan and topped out in 1968. The giant X braces on its tapering black frame are its signature, and the observation deck near the top looks out over Lake Michigan.
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Art Institute of Chicago
A large art museum in Grant Park, guarded on Michigan Avenue by a pair of bronze lions. Its collection includes Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Hopper's Nighthawks and Grant Wood's American Gothic.
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Bahá'í House of Worship
The continental Bahá'í temple for North America and the oldest of the faith's houses of worship still standing, close to the Lake Michigan shore. Its nine-sided white dome is covered in lacy concrete ornament, with doors open to people of every faith and formal gardens all around.
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Cloud Gate
Anish Kapoor's sculpture in Millennium Park, nicknamed for its shape and made of 168 stainless steel plates welded and polished until no seams show. Its mirrored skin bends the Chicago skyline and the crowds standing beneath its arch.
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Field Museum
One of the largest natural history museums in the world, on Chicago's lakefront Museum Campus. Its vast scientific collections are best known for Sue, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found.
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Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
A large science museum in Jackson Park, Hyde Park, beside Lake Michigan and the University of Chicago. It fills the old Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and its exhibits include a captured German U-boat and a replica coal mine.
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Magnificent Mile
About 1.6 kilometres of Michigan Avenue running from the Chicago River north to Oak Street, between Streeterville and River North. It is lined with department stores, hotels and towers, and the old Water Tower of 1869 stands along the way.
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Millennium Park
A park on the northwest corner of Grant Park, opened in 2004 close to the Lake Michigan shore. It is filled with public art and outdoor stages, among them Cloud Gate, the Crown Fountain and Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion.
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Navy Pier
A pier running about a kilometre out into Lake Michigan from the Streeterville shore. It holds shops, restaurants, theatres, gardens and a giant Ferris wheel, and draws more visitors than almost anywhere else in the Midwest.
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Shedd Aquarium
One of the oldest continually operating non-governmental aquariums in the United States, on the lakefront Museum Campus. Its marble building, opened in 1930, holds fish, reptiles and marine mammals from waters around the world.
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Willis Tower
A 110-storey, 442-metre skyscraper that opened in 1973 as the tallest building in the world, a title it kept for nearly 25 years. It was designed by Bruce Graham and the engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan, and its Skydeck has glass boxes that jut out over the street.
Hidden gems in Illinois (2)
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago
A traditional Hindu mandir in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett, opened by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in 2004. Built to the Shilpa shastras from hand-carved Italian marble and Turkish limestone, it is the largest of its kind in Illinois.
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Devon Avenue
A long east to west street across Chicago's north side, best known for the stretch west of Western Avenue where Indian and Pakistani shops line the road. Sari stores, jewellers, sweet shops and restaurants sit side by side, and part of it carries the honorary name Gandhi Marg.
Collecting in Illinois
What are the best places to visit in Illinois?
LOQAH lists 13 places in Illinois. The best known include 875 North Michigan Avenue, Art Institute of Chicago, Bahá'í House of Worship, Cloud Gate and Field Museum. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Illinois?
13, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Illinois?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Illinois before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Illinois and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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