There's so much to do in our 50 acres of parks, promenades, gardens, shops, eateries and attractions.

Take a ride on our 15-story tall McDonald's® Ferris wheel. Catch a movie at the IMAX® Theatre. Visit three floors of hands-on fun at the Chicago Children's Museum inside the Family Pavilion. Experience any one of the cruise boat rides departing from Navy Pier's South Dock. Or just kick back and enjoy your favorite form of entertainment - dancers, acrobats, theater, blues, jazz, or rock 'n roll at the Pepsi Skyline Stage.

Navy Pier also offers dining opportunities as diverse as Chicago itself. Dine at one of the fine restaurants or sample a variety of great tastes to be found at the food court in the Family Pavilion. You can find everything from bikes to books and from souvenirs to sunglasses at the retail shops in the Family Pavilion open year-round. Don't forget about the free entertainment on Dock Street during the summer and open-air ice skating during the winter.

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Located just five minutes from the hotel the 216-acre Brookfield Zoo features Italian provincial buildings and formal malls. It has more than 2,500 specimens comprising some 425 different species.

Special attractions include the dolphin shows in the Seven Seas exhibit (Brookfield was the first inland zoo to build a dolphinarium), a children's zoo, and Tropic World, a vast enclosed exhibit of mixed species from the three main rainforest habitats of the world (African, Asian, and South American).

Other major exhibits are the Fragile Kingdom, depicting how animals relate to each other and their environment, and Habitat Africa, a two-part exhibit covering life in the rainforest and on the savanna.

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Loyola University Health System (LUHS), a private, academic health-care institution that is nationally recognized for its specialty care and research in such areas as cancer, heart and vascular medicine, pediatrics, neonatology, neurosciences, orthopaedics, burn and trauma care and organ transplantation.

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