Things to do in Chicago

Lincoln Park

Chicago's most popular neighborhood is alive day and night with people in-line skating, walking dogs, pushing strollers and driving in circles for hours looking for a place to park. It's also home to the Biograph Theater, where gangster John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in 1934.

Thugs with guns have since made way for banana-packing primates. The free Lincoln Park Zoo, founded in 1868, enjoys considerable community support. Among the highlights are huge monitor lizards, Galápagos turtles, naked mole rats, fruit bats and spiders. The zoo has been a world leader in gorilla breeding, with more than three dozen born here since 1970. If you're lucky, the chimpanzees will be drawing on poster board with crayons. Some of their works have been shown in galleries.