Note: NASPD only coordinates the optional events available through registration. All other events/activities listed below as possible suggestions to consider while in Chicago should be verified with the provider, as times and availability fluctuate. The information/photos used are from a variety of sources, including Tripadvisor.com.
Optional NASPD Activities
Atlas Mill Tour
Hosted by Atlas Tube 8:15 am - Noon
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Atlas Tube invites you to tour their mill facility to learn about the manufacturing of HSS. The tour will include a video in their learning center and a floor tour where you will see the slitting process. Transportation will be provided from the InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel.
All participants should wear pants and closed-toe shoes. Personal protection equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, ear protection, and vest) will be provided and must be worn while on the shop floor.
Shoreline Sightseeing - Architecture Boat Tour
Organized by NASPD - $50 10:00 am -11:15
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Chicago's architecture is known worldwide - and there's nothin like seeing it from all three branches of the Chicago River. Over 40 Chicago landmarks await you on our 75-minute tour, from hidden architectural treasures to the city's most famous landmarks. The expert guides will tell you how Chicago's buildings, architecture and engineering made the city famous. Tour highlights: Tribune Tower, Wrigley Building, Trump Tower, Marina City.
The group will leave from the hotel at 9:30 a.m.
Highlights Tour of Chicago
Organized by NASPD - $95 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 11, 2022
It is impossible to visit ALL the wonderful sights in Chicago; but guests can see major new, exciting, and unique additions on an all-encompassing tour covering the city's major features in the downtown area, north and south sides. Many of Chicago's vistas from major parks, including Grant, Lincoln, and new and impressive Millennium Park. See first-hand why multitudes acclaim Chicago as "an outdoor museum of architecture."
Located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Delaware Place - at the top of Chicago's famed Magnificent Mile. Ideally located in the heart of the city, walking distance from Chicago's best shopping and dining.
The Field Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture. Located on Chicago's iconic Lake Michigan shore, the Field Museum opened its current building to the public in 1921- but its story began years earlier. The museum's collection grew out of items on display in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in the "White City." The exposition delighted visitors with 65,000 exhibits filled with natural wonders and cultural artifacts, many of which later found a permanent home in Chicago at the newly created Field Columbian Museum. The museum's name still honors Marshall Field, who donated $1 million to make the collective dream of a permanent museum a reality. Since opening in 1894, the collection has grown to nearly 40 million artifacts and specimens.
Out of all the Lincoln Park activities, this ghost tour is ideal for those who want to go out at night and investigate. On this tour, YOU are the ghost hunter! Join us on an eerie, on-foot investigation through one of the city's most haunted places: Lincoln Park, the site of the original City Cemetery. On this haunted Chicago tour and ghost hunt combination excursion, you'll learn about the Park's connection to the Great Fire of 1871, the shocking truth about the lost graves of the cemetery, the ghosts of Lincoln Park Zoo, and the secret of the scandalous "Suicide Bridge" over the Lagoon. Then, travel through the neighborhood to the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Departs the Chicago History Museum at 1601 N Clark Street.
Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area in Chicago. The Pier encompasses over 50 acres of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants, family attractions and exhibition facilities and is one of the top destinations in the Midwestern US drawing nearly two million visitors annually. It is one of the most visited attractions in the entire Midwest and is Chicago's second-most visited tourist attraction.
One of the highest-rated food tours in Chicago, the Underground Donut Tour is a 2-mile walking tour through the heart of downtown Chicago, parts of River North, and finishing near Michigan Avenue. This tour is for those who love donuts and love Chicago. While stopping at 4 of the best donut shops in the city, you'll enjoy sampling delicious donuts. Bring your walking shoes and your appetite, because you'll need both.
