this expansive hookah lounge consists of three lounge areas: a vip room with a plasma tv and fish tank, a wired ilounge and nearly a dozen mini-rooms for small groups. in addition to hookah - snacks, smoothes and coffee drinks are also served. thursdays are college nights, while live music ups the energy level on friday and saturday nights.

lincoln park zoo is the country's most historic and distinguished zoological facility. attracting an estimated 3 million visitors per year, the not-for-profit lincoln park zoo is also one of the country's last remaining free admission zoos.

considered one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, the collection of the department of modern and contemporary art includes more than 1,500 paintings and sculptures representing every significant movement in europe and american throughout the 20th century. dining options at the art institute include the court cafe and the garden restaurant. the art institute also has a museum shop.

located in downtown chicago on michigan avenue between randolph and monroe streets, the 24.5-acre park is an unprecedented center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design, where you can experience everything from interactive public art and ice skating to al fresco dining and free classical musical presentations by the grant park orchestra and chorus. among the park's prominent features is the dazzling jay pritzker pavillion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of it's kind in the united states, designed by frank gehry, one of the world's greatest living architects.