The Chicago shoreline has got to be one of the most beautiful in the United States! Shoreline sightseeing is a family owned third generation company that has been in business since 1939, offering a number of different tours. Some of the awe-inspiring tours offered are Architecture Cruises, Skyline Tours, and fantastic evening firework displays! Your travel group will get many awe-inspiring views of the fantastic city we call Chicago. There are no age restrictions and you are offered views that can only be seen from the water. This experienced company knows just where to take you to give you the best sights that can be offered of the city of Chicago. Seeing the magnificence of the city skyline is a beauty that is often taken for granted by people who get the opportunity to see if every day. You will fall in love with the city at the first glance of this beautiful horizon! Be sure to bring your camera so you can capture your view of the ever-changing Chicago shoreline. Your travel group will love the chance to see so many beautiful sights of this city, and what a perfect background to take portrait style photos of every member of your group! This is your chance to capture a moment in time as perfect as a post-card, and you need to take advantage of it. Bring your group to see one of the most amazing sights Chicago has to offer! This will be a boat ride you won’t soon forget.

No rehearsals, no scripts, no memorized lines, that’s how Comedy Sportz performs. When you visit this performance, you will get the chance to provide the actors with the topic on which they create their comedy show! Comedy Sportz is an interesting improv show in which two teams battle for your laughter! Each show is driven by audience suggestion and interaction, which means each and every show is different! The best part, you decide who wins! Every night brings a different show, so there’s no reason to miss a chance to see Comedy Sportz in action! Don’t miss your exciting opportunity to see a show USA Today called “Innovative and hilarious”. This is a family friendly show that anyone would love to see! Comedy Sportz is a performance that is sure to make anyone crack a smile! This is a wonderful performance you can only truly enjoy if you see it live, so make no excuse to miss seeing the Comedy Sportz improv group perform right before your very eyes. Suggest anything you would like to see turned into a comedy skit and you will not be disappointed! This experienced and hilarious group will be a favorite in your visit to the Chicago city. Never before and never again will you see a group of people that work harder to make you laugh! Watch the way these talented comedians play off each other in a way that can only be described as experience and talent. This will be a refreshing addition to your travel experience.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1891 and is consistently titled as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. They perform over one hundred concerts each year and delight music lovers all around the globe. The beauty and professionalism displayed by this orchestra is beyond belief and their love of music shows in every performance! Any educational group would be thrilled at the opportunity to see a performance as memorable and unforgettable as this! Your educational travel group will see one hundred nine dedicated musicians striving towards a common goal and succeeding with every attempt in somehow managing to sound more and more magnificent with every appearance. The musicians display their passion for musical excellence and have received more Grammy awards than any other ensemble in the world! Conductors provide artistic vision and leadership to the organization that awe audiences around the world. Whoever it is that makes this orchestra so amazing, we thank you! This orchestra has a flawless appearance that can only come from years of self-discipline and practice that is sure to wow you! This is a truly unforgettable experience that will allow your group a time to think, ponder, and fall in love with live music, the way it was originally meant to be heard. Chicago is a great city full of art and opportunity, whatever the reason for visiting Chicago, your group should never miss out on the opportunity to see such an amazing orchestra performing at their best, as they do every night.

The Chicago Historical Museum is the place to go if you want to know about some of Chicago’s great history! An exhibit called Sensing Chicago allows children of all ages to discover the sights, smells, and sounds of the city of Chicago. Kids can ride a high-wheel bicycle down a wood-paved street, explore history through their nose with a smell map, be a Chicago-Style hotdog, and even catch a fly ball at Comiskey Park! There is something for everyone to do at this creative and fun filled museum! Learn about the Great Chicago Fire by using an oversized map, icons, and first-hand accounts to trace the path the devastating fire took and hear the sounds it made as it devoured building after building after building. This museum makes for a fun place for anyone to visit! A permanent exhibit called “Chicago: Crossroads of America” has a series of galleries, interactive features, and multimedia presentations. Your educational travel group may even get the change to climb aboard a train car! In the past, there have been showings of photographers as famous as Vivian Maier’s, who took phenomenal photographs of everyday life in urban America that wowed the world! This photographer had a way of taking pictures without the subject even realizing they were being captured in a work of art! Your educational group tour will get the incredible opportunity to see the reactions of people to horrible tragedies as well as the advancements that lead to the Chicago we know today!

Blue Man Group is a performance group that combines music, technology, and comedy to create a form of entertainment that appeals to all ages. This innovative and energetic group gives off an experience like no other with each performance! As you may have guessed already, the blue man group is a group of man who paint themselves blue for each performance! The creativity, planning, and precise movements tell a story that is sure to make you laugh! While in the Chicago area, seeing this group perform would be an experience that surpasses that of any other form of music comedy. They are in a category all their own and any traveling group would be lucky to get the opportunity to see a group as talented as this perform live. Your educational travel group would love seeing the emotion expressed through body language and facial expressions. Add a splash of fun while you rest your feet! Your educational group tour will smile at the first sight of the Blue Man Group, and will be amazed at the comedy produced with such uniqueness. When you visit this show, you are almost guaranteed a fun time! Wouldn’t your group love to see a performance as universally comical as this one? Watch with delight as your travel group stares in awe at these strange and hilarious young men. Once you see one show you will want to come back and watch the unique Blue Man Group time and time again, as will your group!

The Chicago Auditorium Theatre is a miraculous building complete with large murals above the stage and on the ceiling, and the architecture is simply amazing. This auditorium is a large one, it seats 3,553 people and is seven stories tall, and more than half a city block wide. You’ll sure get some exercise finding your seat here! The walking is well worth it, each seat has a fantastic view of a different angle of the performance. This artistic building was the first large and lavish movie palace in America and soon became the prototype for all others. Construction cost nearly four million dollars for this beautiful jewel of a building. Since then it has been leaving visitors breathless with every entry and is called “the Wonder Theatre of the World”. Everything in this building is awe-inspiring, whether you come for the performance or just to look at the building, you are sure to leave pleased with your experience at the Chicago Auditorium Theatre! Visiting this building will be an experience like no other! Rarely are we presented with a building of such magnitude of attractiveness and grace such as this. This is a perfect place for anyone interested in the arts or in architecture to see a real life application of a person’s hard work and dedication, paired up with another person’s willingness to fund such a splendid building! A beautiful building wrapped up in a beautiful city with all kinds of fun and educational opportunities waiting around every corner! What’s not to love?

Architecture, landscape design, and art combine together to create a wonderful display of art exhibitions in Millennium Park. Beauty is found in every glance when your educational group tour comes to visit this amazing and infamous show of creativity in the human spirit. Millennium Park has many astounding aspects and has won many awards for the innovative features, and it’s no surprise, this park is well known for its beautiful design. While visiting this amazing park, your travel group will have the wonderful opportunity to see the Pritzker Pavilion, which is the centerpiece of the park. This is contemporary outdoor concert venue that seats 4,000 and has room for an additional 7,000 on the lawn. Concerts and other events are held at the Pritzker Pavilion once a week. You may also get to see the Harris Theatre, which is fantastic for indoor concerts and theatre such as ballet or chamber choir music. The Cloud Gate is perhaps one of the most famous pieces of art in the Millennium Park. This is the bean-shaped structure that was inspired by liquid mercury. It is one of the largest of its kind of sculpture in the world. It weighs 100 tons and measures 66 feet long and 33 feet high. Visitors are welcomed to walk under and touch this beautiful piece of art that reflects a warped image of the Chicago Skyline. There are tons of beautiful attractions to see in this amazing park! Your tour group is sure to love a visit as unique and remarkable as this.

The Alder Planetarium has all kinds of fun space learning activities for your group to enjoy. Planetary Explorers is a fun exhibit that is sure to excite all visitors. This exhibit has three subsections, Exploring Earth, Exploring Space, and Exploring Planet X. Exploring Earth allows families to explore a home and backyard using electronic magnifying lenses that zoom in and display details on TV monitors. Exploring Space gives children the chance to role play as members of the Mission Control ground team. Families can conduct planetary research by operating rovers and space orbiters. Exploring Planet X lets young adventurers become explorers and research the surface of another planet far away. Caves and tunnels can be explored in search of water and other life. A trip to this planetarium will provide kids with all sorts of fun and factual activities they can participate in to further understand every aspect of space exploration! There is even a virtual exhibit of the universe and how we believe it has evolved over 13.7 billon years, all the way from the Big Bang to modern day. The display of our solar system will put any kid into a state of awe as they study the planets, moons, comets, and asteroids that orbit our source of life, the sun. When you visit the Alder Planetarium, you should prepare for a fun and educational experience that all kids will love. Don’t forget to take pictures! You’ll want to remember a time when your group is as happy as they will be when you visit this planetarium.

The Field Museum has many astounding attractions! Some of the permanent attractions include SUE the T. rex, the largest, best preserved, and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. She measures 42 feet long and has 58 lengthy teeth and is a great choice to take a selfie with! Another exhibit is “the Evolving Planet” which showcases four billion years of life on Earth and allows your educational travel group a chance to journey to the dinosaurs. While at the Field Museum, your educational tour group will get the outstanding opportunity to descend into an ancient Egyptian tomb and stare in awe at the Midwest’s largest collection of mummies! You can enter a Maori Meeting House in which actual sacred and religious rituals occurred in the New Zealand and Maori cultures, you can see ceremonial masks and treasures collected a century ago, and you can discover the workings of our human DNA! Your educational travel group will never be faced with the challenge of boredom when you visit a museum as unique and art filled as this! While at this wonderful museum, your travel group may even get the chance to see a 3D movie! Educational movies like Tiny Giants, and Titans of the Ice Age will let your feet rest while your mind runs! The Field Museum is a fantastic museum with all kinds of information to leave your head buzzing with thoughts! Your educational group tour will never forget the time they saw a real mummy and a gigantic dinosaur! If you want a museum that will force smile on a face and a fact into a mind, this is the museum for you!

Water Country USA is a water park, located just around the corner from Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia. This destination is perfect for cooling off and taking a break from the southern summer heat. For a splashing good time, the group will enjoy various options. Examples include the following: several water slides, the rambling river, the largest wave pool in Virginia, and many other fun watery rides. If you enjoy interactive rides, your tour may want to compete with your friends on the Nitro Racer. Or, Experience the Exhilarating thrill of the twists, turns, and plummets on Big Daddy Falls! If you choose Big Daddy falls, the group will experience a white water rafting adventure of a lifetime! You will tackle curves, tunnels, drops, and cannon blasters. There are 670 feet of flumes and tunnels, making the ride live up to its name. Your group tour may want to visit Busch Gardens as well as Water country USA. If desired, the tour can obtain a pass that will include admission to both parks for the day! Or, you may purchase a ticket to gain access to the water park by itself as well. Call today and make reservations!