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Detailed Itinerary
The Chicago Hotel the World Knows Best!
At the Palmer House Hilton hotel
located in downtown Chicago, guests enjoy the close
proximity to the Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Park,
Millennium Park and Navy Pier. State Street and
Michigan Avenue shopping is just outside our hotel
doors. Ideally located in the heart of the Chicago
Loop, the Palmer House Hilton is a unique Chicago
hotel offering modern conveniences combined with over
one hundred years of elegance.
Day 1: Chicago
Fall is a wonderful
time to visit Chicago. Board our spacious, video and
restroom equipped motorcoach for your trip to
Chicago. There will be plenty of movies and games to
play on the bus. Enjoy this beautiful fall trip
through the heartland. Overnight Chicago.
Day 2: Panorama Tour Chicago, Field
Museum
This morning embark on a
panorama tour of the Windy City with a
step on guide.
Sites will include the Magnificent Mile, Wrigley
Building, Chicago River that has been changed to flow
backwards, Financial District, Skyscrapers, Daley
Plaza with the famous Pablo Picasso sculpture. An
unforgettable experience awaits you at
the world-renowned Field Museum
with one special exhibit: Meet Sue, the
largest, most complete T. Rex ever found…explore an
ancient Egyptian tomb...see astonishing diversity of
life on earth and connect with culture from every
corner of the globe. Dinner on your own and fun at
Navy Pier in the evening. Overnight Chicago.
Day 3: Gangster Tour of
Chicago, Museum of Science & Industry, Sears
Observatory
Ya
gotta know the password, Bugsy! This morning our
costumed Untouchable
will
take us on a fascinating
tour through gangster Chicago.
Continue to the
Museum of Science and Industry,
the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere.
Explore these wonderful and exciting museum. Visit the
Art Institute of Chicago,
where you can take a trip around the world and across
time - from ancient Egyptian artifacts to French
Impressionist paintings by Monet and Renoir to
American icons by Grant Wood and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Dinner at Giordano’s - “Best Pizza in
America”
(according to NBC’s Today Show). Travel up to the
Sear’s Tower Skydeck
for
the best view of one of the greatest cities in the
United States. Overnight Chicago. (D)
Day 4: Chicago
Time in Chicago at your
leisure. Visit the world renowned Shedd Aquarium, head
back to one of the fascinating museums, stroll along
the beautiful lake or shop till you drop at the
Magnificent Mile. Early afternoon depart Chicago.
Overnight Springfield, IL.
Day 5: Lincoln
Presidential Library & Museum
Breakfast
at the
hotel. Visit the home of
Abraham Lincoln.
Experience the legacy of Lincoln as you visit the
Presidential Museum.
Visit the
rustic Indiana cabin
the young Lincoln called home. Travel with Lincoln
down the Mississippi to New Orleans and confront
the horrors of slavery
as a family is torn apart on an auction block. Enter
a modern-day television control room
to see campaign commercials interpreting the
complicated presidential election of 1860. Listen to
black servants gossiping in the White House kitchen
about
the possibility of emancipation.
Experience the
Civil War in four minutes
as you watch the movements armies North and South,
synchronized to the mounting casualties on both sides.
Join the Lincolns in their box at
Ford’s Theatre,
and share in the grief of thousands of ordinary
Americans filing by Lincoln’s casket in the Spring of
1865. Return to NWA. Time to reminisce with your
friends about the experiences you’ve had, the grand
sights you’ve marveled and which Trump Tour you will
take next. (B)
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