NAVY PIER
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Navy Pier is the long stretch of Lake Michigan that abounds in restaurants, tourist attractions, theatres and shops.
Navy Pier is the most easterly part of Chicago; this is the long advance in Lake Michigan north of Grant Park and east of Streeterville. Navy Pier was originally built both for the marine industry and as a public space with restaurants and theatres. There was to be a second jetty, but this project never succeeded.
Subsequently, the only jetty successively served as a military base for pilots'training (that is why more than two hundred World war II aircraft rested on the bottom of the lake after a few technical accidents) and university campuses when the University of Illinois moved from 1946 to 1965. Left behind in 1970, she later hosted ChicagoFest, a popular celebration. Over the next years, Navy Pier has undergone unprecedented transformation: millions of dollars were invested to create the current Navy Pier, a huge shopping mall, which abounds in restaurants, tourist attractions, boat cruises, theatres, cinemas and all kinds of shops. Every year, about eight million tourists visit this temple of consumption and entertainment, the most experienced site in Chicago, which lets you imagine huge crowds and long queues for some attractions, especially in summer.
Here are the main points of interest of Navy Pier: Navy Pier Park, the Imax Theater, the Shakespeare Theater or the Chicago Children's Museum.
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A beautiful view emerges on the city and these scrape-sky, especially when the sun goes down and dusk falls.