Chicago Attractions

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Ready to have your heart skip a beat? The excitement and adventure of Chicago is a cardiac rehabilitation program on wheels! Take a look at these terrific attractions: Soar 3,000 feet above Lake Michigan with Midway Aviators flight school. Departures leave from Chicago Midway Airport's executive terminal at 4943 West 63 St. See Grant Wood's immortal American Gothic, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, and a fantastic collection of Impressionist works by Renoir, Monet, and Gauguin at the Art Institute of Chicago, located at South Michigan Ave. and Adams St. Bobby's Bike Hike tours offers fun loving guides who escort you to Chicago's major downtown attractions. The price includes bicycles, helmets, and guides.

Whether biking or hiking, check out Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, who stands atop the Chicago Board of Trade building. This Art Deco structure, designed by Holabird and Root in 1930, is located at the end of LaSalle Street. Inside find the trading floors for wheat, corn, soybeans, and oil.

The Chicago Children's Museum features a kid sized neighborhood replete with service station, bakery, construction site; and lots of terrific scientific exhibits about inventions, space, and lots, lots more! Located at Navy Pier 700 Grand Ave.

The infamous Billy Goat Tavern located on Michigan Avenue north of the Wrigley Bldg. invites you to butt in at your own risk. The Cheezeborger! menu - beloved of John Belushi of Saturday Night Live and Chicago south west suburbs physcians - is the source of the Billy Goat's curse (which is the reason why the Chicago Cubs baseball team hasn't won a single World Series since the year 1908).

Another great Chicago landmark is the Field Museum, which features six acres of environments and cultures from around the globe. This world class museum's exhibits were brought together by legendary merchandiser Marshall Field. It is located on Lake Shore Drive at East Roosevelt Road,

Marshall Field's store at 111 North State Street, that great street, has over 500 different departments and is a shopper's paradise. The emporium, over a century old at the same location, features a Tiffany dome at its southwest corner and a landmark clock by the entrance at State and Randolph.

Loop the Loop in downtown Chicago, a veritable museum of architectural styles where modern skyscrapers sit next to nineteenth century structures; where giant department stores and world renowned museums offer hours and hours of thrilling attractions. The Magnificent Mile is the part of Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and the Chicago River, and features upscale shopping and dining, and where the glitterati such as orthopedic doctors Chicago south suburbs hang out. At the south end of the Magnificent Mile you come to the fabulously illuminated Wrigley Building, which is the headquarters of the chewing gum empire of the same name. On the east is Streeterville, with the John Hancock Center tower.

The excitement of Chicago is not for your normal cardiac rehabilitation program denizens. Meet and greet at hot spots made famous by Chicago south west suburbs physicians; and tie one on at the haunts of orthopedic doctors Chicago south suburbs!