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On the Boarkwalk Navy Pier is by far one of Chicago’s top tourist destinations. And how can it not….containing gardens (both beer and botanical), restaurants, shops, parks, and a Ferris Wheel. Yes the restaurants are a little over priced, and so are the novelty shops, but I wouldn’t call it a tourist trap by any means. The Pier reaches a mile and a half into the waters of Lake Michigan. Originally it was used for freight and passenger shipping. However, now it’s used for complete recreation. There is plenty of entertainment on the Pier….a fun maze, the Sea Dog excursion, a Pirate show, and every Saturday night fireworks are set off making it a very romantic setting. Let’s... [more]

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}}Navy Pier is a long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million, equivalent to $}} today. It was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates. As Municipal Pier #2 (Municipal Pier #1 was never built), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure. Its primary purpose was as a cargo facility for lake freighters, and warehouses were built up and down the pier. However, the pier was also designed to provide docking space for passenger excursion steamers, and in the pre-air conditioning era parts of the pier, especially its outermost tip, were designed to serve as cool places for public gathering and entertainment. The pier even had its own streetcar. Today, Navy Pier is Chicago's number one tourist attraction.