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Main Trip Info | Activities | Art Museums & Galleries | Audio Tours | Restaurants | ShoppingWednesday, April 4:
We depart at 2:00 p.m. behind American Heritage Bldg.Load bus at 1:30pm.
In order to board, your trip costs must be fully paid, your HU travel release form signed and on file, the Art & Design travel policies form signed and on file, and you must have no university bars against participating in school trips.
Store your luggage below and get a seat.
Luggage needs to be in place by 1:50. (if not stored, you are, of course, welcome to sit with it in your lap...for 10 hrs.)
Luggage Allowed: 1 suitcase/duffel and 1 carry-on (backpack, shoulder bag, etc.) Keep in mind, we have a rather full bus — space will be tight.
2:00pm The bus will pull out at 2:00 — ( regardless of who is not on the bus ).
~6:00 Dinner stop. This will be a brief, 1 hour max stop so that we can get into Chicago at a reasonable time.
On the bus, we'll discuss activities on the trip and handout CTA bus passes.
~12.30 Arrive in Chicago.
Unload and check in at the Grant Park Best Western at the HiChicago Hostel, at 1100 S. Michigan. Map
Please be gracious and aware of hotel guests that are trying to sleep.
Thursday
(see notes on breakfast restaurants available )
~8:00a (optional) Informal walking tour the Museum Campus & the lakefront. We'll likely walk the lakefront and Grant Park, and return to the hotel for the 9.00 tour. (contact GClayton) (route)8:45 Load bus at hotel for ride to begin the Chicago Architecture Foundation tour of the city.
9:00 Bus tour of the city at large, including a survey of architecture and history of the area. (a route)
12p-1:15p Grab lunch nearby.
Check the options — grab lunch nearby at Artist's Cafe (map) or one of the many South Michigan Ave. options, or at at Macy's (MarketPlace Foods, lower level).
1:15: Meet at Auditorium Theater on Congress Ave, one block west of Michigan. Map
1:30pm: Tour of Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theater
2:30/ Mid Afternoon and Evening:
Visit the Art Institute of Chicago Map — it is open until 8pm on Thursdays.
Current Exhibits include Picasso and Chicago, When Collecting was New (photos), Of Gods and Glamour (Greek, Roman, Byzantine art) as well as the museum's outstanding ongoing collections.
We don't have a set plan to tour the Art Institute en masse. You'll have a pass to enter (and re-enter) the museum throughout the day, until the museum closes at 8pm.
Be sure to check on the online maps and tour apps for getting around the museum. | Interactive Pathfinder | Floorplan PDF
Art Institute of Chicago (111 S. Michigan) Map
(Spring '13 special exhibit: ----- )Take a break in the Park: Since we can leave and return to the Art Instutute with our day passes, feel free to change things up and see the art, landscaping, skyline and Gehry's Prizker Pavillion and BP Bridge in Millenium Park, just north of the Art Institute. There are freely downloadable audio tours to introduce you to what's in the park. (links below)
— Millenium Park/Grant Park (Audio Tour) (map/png) (map/Google)
— Public Sculpture walking tour (Domenge in Millenium Pk | Loop Public Art AudTour | Loop Landmark AudTour | 2 | 3 | 4 )
— Loop/Lakefront architecture ( Walking Tour1 )8:00 Art Institute closes
8:05 You might plan to meet at the north lion at the Michigan Ave. entrance to get together for whatever comes next. Pick a late evening exploration of Millennium Park or an evening meal...or a night photo shoot. (Washington Lib open til 9p) or form a group to head to Giordano's for great pizza (nearest is 2 blocks north in Prudential Plaza)Evening: Grab some friends and chase down some genuinely Chicago pizza. Options include: Lou Malnati's near the hotel (map) or Giordano's north of Art Institute (map) There is also Uno's (map) and Duo's (map) north of the river.
Consider a walk back to the hotel along the lake for a lakefront view of skyline. (a route)
One of the best views of the skyline is from the Adler Planeterium...its a 15-20 minute walk from the Best Western. (route)
(2013 Note: If Buckingham Fountain is "on" for the summer (unlikely...but ask at the hotel desk), be sure to go and see the after-dusk 20min. light & water show...every hour, on-the-hour until the final 10pm show. In 2009, the fountain was turned on by April 3. The fountain is about 3 blocks south of the Art Institute in the middle of Grant Park...it lines up with Congress Avenue. (map))
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Be back in the hotel by midnight — tomorrow will be a full day.
Friday
(see notes on breakfast restaurants available )
~7:00 (optional) Sunrise lakefront walk and photo shoot, or later (non-sunrise) walk around 8 or so.
(take CTA 146bus to Adler Planetarium and shoot from there) (sunrise ~ 6am)(contact GClayton)
~9:30 Groups depart for small-group appointments with design firms, galleries, other museums, etc.
——— the afternoon may be more free, once scheduled visits are done. Check with your group leaders.Graphic Designers: (contact Daniel Adams)
10:30a Begin with a tour of Tweedle Press.
(Red Line north to Morse. Map)1:30p Visit VSA Partners –
600 West Chicago Ave. Suite 250
Chicago, IL 60654 Phone:312-427-6413
Brown or Purple line to Chicago Map3:30 Visit Ogilvy Mather
350 West Mart Center Drive/Suite 1100
(312) 856 8200
Purple or Brown Line @ Merchandise Mart (map)
Interior Designers: (contact Sarah Wilhoit)
9:00 Tour Kimball Showroom
10:00 Visit Merchandise Mart (map)
11:30 Lunch with Celeste Rose Pratt
12:30 Tour Cannon Design (map)
between 1:30 to 2:30 Leave for Oak Park
3:30 Tour of FLW home and studio (map)
Fine Arts: (contact Greg Clayton)
Depart hotel at 9:30 or from Lobby...
Start with the Graphic Design group at Tweedle Press, noted above, then work our way either to the galleries or to the MCA or the Cultural Center. (or all)
Museum of Contemporary Art ($ save receipt for repayment if you're not with group) (Red Line to Chicago Map)
We may past the Apple Store (check workshop schedule)... to HotTix to check on evening shows ..
~12:30 Lunch
1:30pm Gallery walk in River North Gallery District. (Brown Line to Chicago Map),
other options:
Smart Museum (map) or Oriental Institute (map) on the campus of the University of Chicago.
Stained Glass Museum (map) on Navy Pier
Make sure you visit Dick Blick (State & Madison) (map) or Utrecht on Michigan Ave. (map) to see and sample the latest creative media.
— Museum of Contemporary Photography (map) on S. Michigan, a 4 blocks north of Best Western.
— Chicago Cultural Center (map) is filled with music and galleries. Just across from Millenium park.
exhibits, March/April Programs and Exhibits,
Hale Woodruffs Murals from Taledega College;Chicago Cultural Center Building tours (free) Fridays and Saturdays at 1.30.
7:00pm (Optional — organize a group to go) Willis Tower (map) or Hancock Tower (map) Observations Deck: Sunset is 7:30
Weather-permitting, Sears/Willis Tower observation deck (*IF* a group is interested check w. Greg Clayton. $ TheLedge 2Evening is free schedule
(check out the shows, music or Navy Pier, late shopping, etc.)
Try a River/Lake Architecture tour/cruise | 2 | 3
Saturday
We have a full Saturday in Chicago this year.
Usually there are various cultural events to select and explore. The museums are open.
Recall that Chicago's Spring is later than ours — not all of the outdoor and public park events are fully up and running for the summer.
(see notes on breakfast restaurants available )Scheduled Events by signup only:
— Possible early sunrise walk to the Adler for skyline photos.(as per Friday notes)(contact GClayton)
— Comm Group is going to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. They've invited any of us who want to go with them. Its quite a treat. Contact Prof. Steve Shaner for info. 360 N. State. (map) ($8 student adm)
— Fine Arts group will select sites Friday's notes not yet explored.
— Interior Design students
8:30am Interior Designers head out.
Its a 20min walk from the Best Western (route) at 1800 S. Prairie.
9:00 Glessner House and Clark House Tours.
11:00 dismiss for the day— Chicago White Sox
Some of us are going to see the Sox play the Mariners at 12.10.
Contact Sarah Wilhoit for details. (tickets) Most of us will just purchase tickets at the door, but contact Dr. Wilhoit if you have questions.
U.S. Cellular Field (map)
Home of the Chicago White Sox
333 W 35th St, Chicago, IL
at 35th/Shields (in Armour Square neighborhood)
Plan a trip to here with Google Transit
Via CTA Red Line
The ballpark is just a block west of the Sox-35th stop on the CTA Red Line.
Take a Red Line train toward 95th.
Via CTA Green Line
The ballpark is just three blocks west of the 35th-Bronzeville-IIT stop on the CTA Green Line.
— Try a River/Lake Architecture tour/cruise | 2 | 3Evening is free schedule (check out the shows, music or Navy Pier, late shopping, etc.)
Sunday
8:00 Load bus
8:15 Depart hotel
~12:30 Lunch
~ 1:45 Worship (on the bus)
~ 6:00 Arrive Searcy
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