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Free things to do in Chicago

5 museums and landmarks in Chicago are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 29 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 9 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 5 places

  • Money Museum
    South LaSalle Street 230
    Mo-Fr 08:30-17:00
  • The Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • Chicago Board of Trade Building Museum
    West Jackson Boulevard 141
    Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00
  • Expo 72
    East Randolph Street 72
    24/7
    Open on Sunday
  • Iarca

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • Millennium Park
    East Randolph Street 201
    Mo-Su 06:00-23:00
  • Grant Park
    East Randolph Street 331
    06:00-23:00
  • Lincoln (Abraham) Park
    North Lake Shore Drive 500-5700
    Mo-Su 06:00-23:00
  • Burnham Park
    South Lake Shore Drive 1200-5700
    Mo-Su 06:00-23:00
  • Maggie Daley Park
    East Randolph Street 337
    Mo-Su 06:00-22:00
  • Northerly Island
    South Lynn White Drive 1521
  • Bloomingdale Trail Park
    West Bloomingdale Avenue 1600-3750
    Mo-Su 06:00-23:00
  • Wicker Park
    North Damen Avenue 1425
  • Mariano Park
    North State Street 1031
  • Washington Square
    North Clark Street 901
  • Ping Tom Memorial Park
    West 19th Street 300
  • Union Park
    West Randolph Street 1501
  • Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
    West Fullerton Parkway 125
  • Oz Park
    North Burling Street 2021
  • Seward Park
    West Elm Street 375
  • Pulaski Park
    West Blackhawk Street 1419
  • Chicago Women's Park and Gardens
    South Indiana Avenue 1801
  • Jane Addams Park
    West 14th Street 1430
  • Gold Star Families Park
    South Special Olympics Drive
  • Lurie Garden

Viewpoints — 5 places

  • 360 Chicago
    North Michigan Avenue 875
  • North Overlook
  • South Overlook
  • Lincoln Park Passerelle Viewpoint
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill

Beaches — 4 places

  • Oak Street Beach
  • 12th Street Beach
    South Lynn White Drive 1200
  • North Avenue Beach
  • Ohio Street Beach

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