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Kid-Friendly Adventures in the Chicagoland area 🏙️✨
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items Chicago isn’t just for deep dish 🍕 it’s full of kid-approved adventures too! 🦁🎡🐠
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Zoo’s 🦓🦍🦒
Museum’s 🛖
Amusement Parks 🎢
Playgrounds 🛝
Aquarium 🐟🐬
The Pier 🎡
Zoo’s 🦓🦍🦒
Chicago has 2️⃣ must visit zoos that the kids will absolutely love! ❤️
FREE, fun, and full of animals 🦁🐧 Lincoln Park Zoo is a must-do Chicago adventure with kids! 🌿✨
Lincoln Park Zoo
Brookfield Zoo is hands down one of the best family day trips our family gets season passes every year! 🦒🐧🐯. With over 2,000 animals, interactive exhibits, play areas, and even dolphin shows, it’s a place where kids learn while having the time of...
Brookfield Zoo
Museum’s 🛖
Ditch the screen and dive into the real world! 🌍 Museums offer kids a multi-sensory, hands-on environment where complex history, science, and art become tangible and exciting. It's learning without even realizing it's learning. A great way to build ...
Great for Ages 0-10: Includes thoughtful, dedicated Young Explorers areas for babies and toddlers!
DuPage Children's Museum
Whether they're wearing a white coat in the hospital, checking out groceries at the Friendly Market, or driving the fire truck in the First Responder Friends area, every exhibit is designed for building critical social skills, empathy, and a strong s...
Children's Museum in Oak Lawn
Wonder Works Children's Museum is awesome because it truly immerses kids in creative worlds. They get to crawl into a multi-level treehouse in The Great Outdoors, explore physics building huge structures in Build It, or become a star in Lights, Camer...
Wonder Works Children's Museum
🌈💫 Color Factory Chicago = pure joy for little ones! Think ball pits, rainbow rooms, and endless fun ✨
Color Factory Chicago: Immersive Art Experience for All Ages
They might be little, but they can still tour a U-boat, marvel at a tiny Fairy Castle, and watch chicks hatch! The Museum of Science and Industry is a Chicago classic that inspires every age. 🏰🐥⚓️
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Dinosaurs and digging! Yes, the Field Museum has Sue the T. rex and Máximo the Titanosaur, but it also has the Crown Family PlayLab, where little explorers (ages 2-6) can dig for bones, play in a Pueblo, and pretend to be woodland creatures. It's a n...
Field Museum
Amusement Parks 🎢
This is where childhood memories get built, one giant smile at a time. There’s nothing like the pure, unfiltered joy of a theme park day the smell of popcorn, the bright lights, and the magic of shared laughter. Just living in the moment and soaking ...
🏴☠️✨ Ahoy, mateys! Pirates’ Cove is the perfect adventure spot for little ones; with pint-sized rides, playgrounds, and plenty of space to run and imagine, kids can sail into a world of fun made just for them
Pirates' Cove Children's Theme Park
🎢✨ Six Flags isn’t just for thrill seekers ; it’s packed with kid friendly rides, shows, and character meet and greets that make it the perfect place for little adventurers to laugh, play, and make big memories!
Six Flags Great America in Chicago - Thrill Capital of the Midwest
🎅✨ Santa’s Village is pure magic for little ones with rides, animals, and holiday cheer all year long, it’s the perfect spot for kids to laugh, play, and step into a storybook adventure!
Ticket Pricing | Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park
Playgrounds 🛝
Playgrounds are vital for sparking imagination and encouraging safe risk-taking.
Leave the sightseeing to the grown-ups, we're off to the Play Garden At Maggie Daley Park, you can climb a 40-foot rock wall, sail a pirate ship and slide through an Enchanted Forest. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure day right in the Chicago skyline'...
Maggie Daley Park
Aquarium 🐟🐬
There’s something so peacefully mesmerizing about watching fish drift by. Aquariums offer a unique sensory experience that can be calming and captivating for children. It encourages quiet observation, sharpens focus, and sparks curiosity about the wo...
🐠✨ Shedd Aquarium is a wonderland for little ones. From hands on exhibits to colorful fish and playful sea creatures, it’s the perfect place for kids to learn, explore, and be amazed by the ocean world!
Shedd Aquarium
The Pier 🎡
A Destination for All Ages
Navy Pier is Chicago's ultimate lakefront playground and a Midwest must-see! Stretching out over Lake Michigan, this iconic landmark offers a vibrant mix of rides, dining, culture, and spectacular views. Soar nearly 200 feet high on the iconic Centen...
Navy Pier
Resorts 🛝💦
All in 1 amazing place to stay with the little ones , not to mention conveniently located right by Six Flags Great America
Great Wolf Lodge offers a self-contained vacation experience where kids are constantly entertained, regardless of the weather, with activities designed for a wide range of ages including a massive indoor water park.
Great Wolf Lodge | Illinois
Restaurants 🥘
Good food , kid friendly , and the kids will LOVE getting their food served by a train 🚂
The Junction Diner - The Train Restaurant
Beach 🌊🏖️
Too hot? Don’t worry Chicago is surrounded by Lake Michigan. Go take the kids for a splash !💦
North Ave beach is definitely one of the most popular beaches in Chicago
North Avenue Beach
Sports 🏀🏈🏒
If your kid loves sports or you want them to see what it’s all about , go to these KID FRIENDLY sports events.
Avoid the obnoxious people just trying to go to the Major Leagues.
Great for all ages!!
More than just hockey! The Chicago Wolves game has a whole Kids Zone with radar cages and slapshot stations to keep the little ones moving. Plus, nothing beats riding the Fanboni or getting on the Jumbotron! 🥅🚨
Chicago Wolves
Baseball, hot dogs, and a Kids Zone! The Chicago Dogs make every game an adventure with free pitching, batting, and running games for kids. Want a sweet deal? Check out Wiener Wednesdays for $1 hot dogs! 🏟️🏃♀️
The Chicago Dogs