If the weather is nice and you are down by M.S.I (a good idea) the park connected to it (Jackson Park) has a cool zen garden you can walk through/ the kiddo can get some energy out. I haven't spent much time in that neighborhood for several years (Hyde Park) but there's almost always a vegetarian option or two around there (college-y area). Ooh, quick search says there's a Native Foods down there now! I've been to other locations and they're good.

These are all great suggestions, and that other thread is exactly what I was looking for!I was going to mention the Field Museum. I remember visiting as a teen but don t recall much about it. Those of you with similar-age kids, is it something a 4yo would get anything out of?

First off...please please please Kerble away. I tried using Google to search but didn t come up with much. My wife and I are both off work for the month of May and are considering visiting Chicago for a few days. As the subject says, we would have our children with us. Our son will be 4 in a couple weeks and is the one we d need to worry about keeping entertained (our daughter will be about 3 months old at that point and won t do much other than eat, sleep, and fuss).So this is where I turn to the fine folks here to ask for suggestions of things to do that a 4yo would enjoy. Tipping towards the more touristy side of things is ok...we will probably go to the aquarium, and as much as I d like to I won t be able to spend time digging through record shops or having a beer at a show. We ll probably do two but potentially three nights, and quite possibly during the week.Due to having an infant we will probably look for an AirBnB with a couple bedrooms instead of cramming into a hotel. My wife found a couple in Lincoln Park but if this is a bad idea I am all ears.Food suggestions are welcome too. My wife and I are both vegan and the last time we were in Chicago I think Chicago Diner was just about the only (well-known) game in town. I m pretty sure there was a thread about this somewhere already though so I ll try to dig that up. I don t know if it s passé at this point but I ve not had a chance to eat at Kuma s before so I d like to do that. I d also love to tour Electrical if possible (and bring my son if he s welcome) but we ll see how that goes!Thanks!

Garfield Park Conservatory. bonus points for it being suggested donation admissionhttps://garfieldconservatory.org/

Consider Chinatown. Easy to get to on the Red Line. We've been taking our girls since they could walk and they love it. Crazy candy shops, kitch, real food (certainly lots of vegetarian but I'm sure there's some vegan to be found). There's also a nice Riverwalk kinda park near there too if it's nice out.Also, Maggie Daley Park is pretty magical for young and old. Also, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park is cool for young and old and they have an awesome indoor butterfly garden that is super enchanting.

Museum of Science and Industry, the Planetarium, the Aquarium as you already mentioned, the Children s Museum, Navy Pier, and possibly the Field Museum Of Natural History. Lincoln Park would be fine and everything I mentioned accessible from there either by car or train. Except the Museum of Science and Industry, which is on the south side and too far of a train ride for the little ones, but should definitely be considered, but best driven to in a car. It was my favorite Museum as a kid besides the Planetarium. By the way, Field, Planetarium, and the Aquarium are all right next to each other. If I m not mistaken (I haven t lived there in ten years) the Children s Museum is still on Navy Pier which also has shops and an amusement park with rides. Also not far from Museum campus (aquarium, Planetarium, Field). So those are multiple spots you can hit in one or two days.

I second the Nature Museum and forgot to mention the Lincoln Park Zoo. That s a fun place.

This might help, but it s from a few years ago

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:This might help, but it s from a few years ago^^^^This thread is your ticket.And yeah, absolutely do an AirBnB. Hotels in Chicago are pretty much only downtown, and downtown is fun to visit as a tourist during the day, but Chicago is a city of neighborhoods and you'll be much happier being out in one of them.As is mentioned many times in the Chicago threads, Logan Square is a beautiful neighborhood with lots of great vegan-friendly restaurants. It's sort of like Tremont but with wide sidewalks and parkways. We poke fun at it because it's the hipster neighborhood, but I think it's where you'll have the best time. My kids are 4 and 1 and we go into this neighborhood with them all the time. Logan Boulevard and Kedzie boulevard and Palmer Boulevard and Sacramento boulevard all have wide grassy parkways that they can run around in after we pop out of a restaurant. Plus, the blue line train goes through Logan Square and it takes you right downtown for museums and parks and climbing up the Picasso and sliding down like my daughter loves to do. The blue line also goes straight to O'Hare airport.