- Good means low cost, and high quality. Transportation includes parking. Not all transportation facilities are "public". For instance privately owned parking garages are part of the equation.
- If you are lucky you can find parallel parking for free around Lincoln Park Zoo.
- Parking is $1.00 an hour, if you can find any, near Northerly Island. I drove there with 2 bikes in my car, and my 7 year old son, and we rode to Millennium Park and back.
- Kids ride the Metra free on the weekends.
- The Water Tower Place Mall does parking validation.
- It costs $7 per adult to ride to Chicago Union Station (week-end passes, kids ride free). From there you can walk to a number of places:
- Millennium Park.
- In the summer, kids can play in the fountain. Bring towels, and a change of clothes. It is sort of white trash, but they can change in the bathrooms.
- Each time you go down the kids will probably want to look at the bean, and get their photo taken.
- I should probably walk the whole park once. Their are some statues on the south end I have never seen.
- Winter
- Kris Kringle Market Chicago
- We walked, with 3 kids, and 2 strollers, all the way to the Hancock Building. It was a pretty long walk. When we got back to Navy Pear we took a water taxi bat to Union Station, to save our legs, and to make a train.
- Sales tax is high in Chicago.
- It costs $20 at a minimum to park in Chicago.
- It cost $7 for a weekend pass. So if you want to go in as a couple it costs $14 just to get there.
Score:
- Reasons to agree: +5
- Reasons to agree: -3
- Total: +2
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