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Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere , after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium .
Navy Pier, east of Streeterville, contains retail, restaurants, museums, exhibition halls and auditoriums. Its 15-story Ferris wheel is among the most visited landmarks with about 8 million visitors each year. [4] The city's Museum Campus, holds: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.
In mid-1918, the pier was also used as a jail for draft dodgers. In 1927, the pier was renamed Navy Pier to honor the naval veterans who served in World War I. [7] In 1941, during World War II, the pier became a training center for the United States Navy; about 10,000 people worked, trained and lived there. The pier contained a 2,500-seat ...
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.
The seat is home to several Chicago landmarks, including Navy Pier, Millennium Park, Grant Park, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium, Soldier Field, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the University of Chicago.
The skyline of Chicago, Illinois, USA, as seen from the Adler Planetarium.The scene stretches from Shedd Aquarium on the left to Navy Pier on the right. In between, other Chicago landmarks can be seen, such as, from left to right, Sears Tower (tall black building), the Aon Center (tall white building), and the John Hancock Center (black trapezoidal building).
An aerial view of the Museum Campus Shedd Aquarium in the Museum Campus at dawn.. Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago along Lake Michigan.It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and the ...
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; [2] [3] also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, [4] the Outer Drive, [5] the Drive, LSD or DLSD) is a semi-limited access expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan and its adjacent parkland and beaches in Chicago, Illinois.