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Summer in Chicago

Things to do and places to visit.

Chicago is a best place to visit in summer. It is a very beautiful city and you can enjoy more if you visit Chicago in summer. There are many places you have to visit and many things you have to do in Chicago in summer. Chicago is a great sight for the eyes in summer. The streets will be packed with tourists from all around the world, lake Michigan literally shines in the hot sun, the parks are great to look at with luxuriant and tender plants. There are many things you can do in Chicago in summer.

Some very important things you can not afford to miss are:

In summer, Chicago showcases some of the best summer festivals with different themes. One get to see almost all types of summer festivals in Chicago. Entertainment festivals are the most famous of them. Besides Entertainment Festivals, Taste of Chicago is a very famous festival which has a lot of food items and Chicago's traditional food varieties. Every year millions of visitors get to eat hundreds of food items here. One can see a wide range of food stalls and one can eat different varieties of food items from around the world and the special attraction of this food festival is different varieties of Chicago traditional food items.

The Chicago Air and Water show is a very big show held in summer which one can not miss. It is the largest free air and water show in the United States. Over two million people around the world come to see this show every summer. It is held at the shores of lake Michigan for a weekend every August.

Lincoln Park is one of the biggest parks in the world with around 1200 acres of area along lke Michigan's shore. It is a great place to spend a summer day in Chicago. There is a zoo in the park with a wide range of species. Other things one can see in this park are Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the North Avenue Beach

One of Chicago's most famous landmarks, Buckingham Fountain is the one thing you can not afford to miss. In summer, it has an hourly water display which lasts for twenty minutes. It is a great water display to see as it is very large display and it looks astounding at nights with different colored lights and music.

One of the Chicago's historic places, Wrigley Field is the best of the historic places. It is a great place to visit and one get to see different historic pieces here.

Chicago beaches are the most beautiful beaches in the United States. They are calm water beaches with fantastic sights of blue and green water. It feels very serene to roam around the beaches as there won't be any waves and all one gets to see is beautiful, calm water.

Navy Pier and Millennium Park are the other great places to visit on a summer day. We have not one, not two but many options when we go to Chicago in summer. It is one of those places which are more enjoyable in summers.

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#1 by Lauren Axelrod, Aug 17, 2008
Chicago is the best! I love that city at all times of the year, even winter.
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