Museum Campus & South Loop

The South Loop was where Chicago arrived and where it let its hair down. Trains from the whole country came into the stations here, printers ran their presses on Dearborn Street, the blues was recorded on Michigan Avenue and Al Capone ran his business from a hotel down the road. A few blocks south, the city's first millionaires built their mansions on Prairie Avenue. Then Chicago filled in the lakeshore and put its great museums on it. This walk takes you from an old railroad station past jazz and blues clubs, the studio where Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones recorded and the mansions of Prairie Avenue to the most famous T. rex in the world, the aquarium and a skyline view at the end.