Is your shopping donw or you just can’t bring yourself to hit the stores on Black Friday? Try these alternative activities. All of the following events are FREE or cheap. Get out and enjoy life!
Downtown:
- Walk through Millennium Park and the Lurie Garden.
- Walk through Maggie Daley Park.
- Tour some of the exhibits in Chicago Architecture Biennial at the Chicago Cultural Center
- Attend the Wreathing of the Lions Ceremony at the Art Institute of Chicago then do items 1 and 2 above
- Stay around the park for Caroling at Cloud Gate Millennium Park
- Stroll through Chicago’s Annual Christkindlmarket.
- Ride the CTA Holiday Train
- Checkout the Garfield Park Conservatory Holiday Flower Show
- Take a free upcycling class at Northerly Island
- Go to a matinee at AMC Rivereast 21. See a movie before 11:59AM for $6.37 or from 12noon to 3:59PM for $11.08. Save money on movie tickets.
- Get 25% off admission to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for $9 Reg. $12
- Take a discount trip up to the Willis Tower Skydeck: 103rd-Floor Views for $15 Reg. $20 Guide to Willis Tower Skydeck
Lincoln Park:
- Stroll through the Lincoln Park Conservatory flower show then walk over and enjoy
- Zoo Lights at Lincoln Park Zoo.
Out-of-town:
