What's on in Chicago
Penguins in the Polar Play Zone at Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium · Museum Campus / Near South Side

Polar Play Zone

Now showingPermanent collection·Ticketed — see website

A hands-on space for young children on the Underwater Level: a penguin play area, a kid-sized submarine, a sea star touch pool and views of rockhopper penguins, dolphins and sea otters.

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Work from the MoCP collection featured in If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, seen from the street

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The Beaux-Arts facade of the Art Institute of Chicago on Michigan Avenue, floodlit at night, with one of its bronze lions at right

Art Institute of Chicago

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