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Attractions
In addition to the celebrated scientific and cultural institutions such as the Art Institute and Lakefront Museum Campus, Chicago has innumerable attractions from dazzling shopping districts, breath-taking parks and public art, mind-boggling architectural tours, outdoor recreation and attractions by day, to acclaimed culinary establishments, hot nightclubs, cool jazz and Chicago blues like you've never heard it by night.
Art and Museums
Chicago is a city devoted to artists, public art and civic beauty. Certainly Chicago stands out among its peers for its expansive display of public art including Miro's Chicago, Calders' Flamingo and the sculpture simply referred to as Picasso from Pablo himself. Visitors and residents alike encounter with joy new public art installations that seemingly spring up overnight in parks, along Lake Shore Drive, on bridges, and in any opportune open space.
Beaches and Harbors
Chicago's 29 miles of lakefront boasts more than half a dozen beaches in the Gay Games competition areas, offering everything from serene, sandy paradises, to hip, urban spectacles. The Hollywood Avenue Beach, known as the City's gay beach, is a beautiful expanse of blue water, with volleyball nets and sunbathers dotting the pristine white sand. Located at the beginning of the lakefront bike path, with skyline views and historic sites, the Hollywood Beach is the perfect place to relax and cool off after competitions.
Queer Chicago
Chicago has one of the most active, friendly and growing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered communities in the world, and is a welcoming mecca for the LGBT travelers. LGBTs are represented in prominent public offices and citizens have expansive protection under city and county civil-rights and domestic-partner laws. LGBT Chicagoans enjoy employee domestic-partner benefits, protective hate-crime laws, individual, joint, and second-parent adoptions, and laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Black Chicago
From the North to South, West to East, Chicago boasts a booming world for
LGBTs. In some places, it's just a bit harder to find. Chicago's racially
segregated past certainly still has roots in the new millennium, and LGBTs
of all colors are reaching out to make sure African-American, Latino/a,
Asian Pacific Islander and other groups are provided a wide range of
culture.
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