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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2823228" data-attributes="member: 1515">Navy Pier's kind of a tourist trap, IMO.  Doesn't stop hundreds of thousands of people from visiting it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Any of the other museums can be a lot of fun, depending on what interests you.  The Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium, and the Adler Planetarium are all great, and they're all fundamentally next door to one another, just south of the Loop, on the lakeshore.  The Museum of Science and Industry is also very cool, though it's several miles further south on Lake Shore Drive.Very good steaks can be had at a number of places.  I love Ruth's Chris Steak House (just north of the Loop), though it is a chain.  Chicago Chop House, Lawry's Prime Rib, and Smith & Wollensky's (all just north of the Loop) are also very good.For a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, I recommend Pizzeria Uno (which invented it), at the corner of Wabash and Ohio.  Lou Malnati's, Gino's East, and Giordano's all also make a good deep-dish pizza.If you're talking about the week of 5/22, alas, my week is already looking hellacious, with work travel and running an online game some evenings.</blockquote>