Two more packed days exploring the sights of Chicago. Took a boat trip along the Chicago River to look at some of the amazing buildings along the waterfront. Most are redevelopments of factories and warehouses which used to throb with life but are now put to a more peaceful role.

They reversed the river by building a canal to link it with the Illinois river and therefore the Mississippi. The plan was needed to
stop the polluted river contaminating the drinking water in Lake Michigan. It worked sending the pollution down to St Louis instead!

Took in some museums including the Field Museum home to some enormous
dinosaurs and finished the day watching the sunset from the top of the John Hancock building, some 100floors above street level.