American Place Casino is a gaming destination owned by Full House Resorts, located at 4011 Fountain Square Place in Waukegan, Illinois, about 35 miles north of downtown Chicago off I-94.
The Chicago Architecture Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to promote and celebrate Chicago’s architectural heritage and urban design, originally starting as an effort to save the historic Glessner House from demolition.
The Field Museum in Chicago is one of the world's leading natural history museums, established in 1893 to house the collections from the World's Columbian Exposition and named after its major benefactor, Marshall Field.
The Tunnel Hill State Trail in southern Illinois stretches about 45 miles from Harrisburg to Karnak, following the former rail bed of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, built in the 1870s by Civil War General Ambrose Burnside.
The Chicago Riverwalk in Illinois is a 1.25-mile pedestrian-friendly urban waterfront area along the south bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, stretching from Lake Michigan to Lake Street.
Morrison-Rockwood State Park encompasses 1,164 acres of rolling hills and dense woodlands north of Morrison in Whiteside County, northern Illinois, established in 1971 and named for the nearby city, Rock Creek, and its heavily wooded Rockwood terrain.
Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, is a well-known zoological park that opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recognition for its innovative use of open-air, unbarred enclosures with moats and ditches instead of cages.
Jubilee College State Park spans 3,200 acres in Peoria County, Illinois, about six miles west of Peoria near Brimfield off U.S. Route 150, blending rich history with scenic rolling hills, ravines, woodlands, prairies, and meandering Jubilee Creek.
Timberjaxe Axe Throwing Lounge in Libertyville, Illinois, is a top-rated recreational venue that offers axe throwing for all skill levels in a safe and friendly environment.
Chain O'Lakes State Park covers 2,793 acres across Lake and McHenry counties in northeastern Illinois near Spring Grove, serving as the gateway to Illinois' largest concentration of natural lakes with nearly 6,500 acres of water and 488 miles of shoreline connected by the Fox River.
Walnut Point State Park covers 671 acres in Douglas County, east-central Illinois near Oakland, featuring a scenic 59-acre Walnut Point Lake formed by an earthen dam on a stream, surrounded by hardwood forests of oak, hickory, maple, walnut, locust, and sassafras.
Pere Marquette State Park covers nearly 8,000 acres in Jersey County, Illinois, making it the state's largest park, located near Grafton at the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers along the scenic Great River Road.
Maggie Daley Park in Chicago is a vibrant 20-acre urban park located near Lake Michigan, transformed from the site of the former Daley Bicentennial Plaza.
Hollywood Casino Joliet in Illinois is a state-of-the-art land-based casino that opened in 2025, replacing the former riverboat casino that operated on the Des Plaines River since 1992.
Lisle, Illinois, settled in 1832 by brothers James C. and Luther A. Hatch shortly after the Black Hawk War, began as a small farming community near the east branch of the DuPage River.
Starved Rock State Park in Illinois is a scenic natural area along the Illinois River, known for its dramatic sandstone canyons, waterfalls, and rugged bluffs formed by ancient glaciers.
Horseshoe Lake State Park in Madison County, Illinois, spans nearly 3,000 acres around a 2,400-acre natural oxbow lake—the state's second-largest after Lake Michigan—formed millennia ago by a Mississippi River meander in the American Bottom near Granite City, just east of St. Louis.
