Museums and Art Galleries

In 1998, the city of Chicago officially opened the Museum Campus Chicago, a 10-acre park overlooking the lake and bringing together the three major museums: the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium. Chicago Museum Campus was constructed in the southern section of Grant Park. Some of the museums and art galleries are:
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Cultural Center
Field Museum of Natural History.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago
Oriental Institute
Shedd Aquarium
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
Adler Planetarium

Music

Chicago has made significant contributions to popular culture. In the field of music, Chicago is known for its Chicago blues, Chicago soul, Jazz and Gospel music. It is also known as the birthplace of the House, whose history is connected with the development and adoption of techno music - Electronic Detroit. Hip-Hop scene in Chicago, is very influential, of which the major exponents are artists like Kanye West and Common.
Chicago, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, direct rivals its counterpart in New York. The opera company in town is the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
In 1967 the band was born "The Big Thing", this being the first to incorporate metals (such as saxophone, trumpet and trombone) within the rock genre. In 1969 they released their first album, now under the name Chicago Transit Authority, which just changed to "Chicago" at the end of that year. Chicago in his long career (just over 35 years) has garnered countless hits like "Saturday in the park", "If you leave me now", "Hard to say I'm sorry", "You're the inspiration" among others.
The singer Minnie Riperton, with an impressive voice and a colorful and varied record, besides being an icon of the Soul, is from Chicago. Another citizen of Chicago singer Anastacia and her distinctive voice and style rasada rock musical Soul
One of the most influential bands of the mid-90's in the alternative music was The Smashing Pumpkins, from Chicago.
Born in Chicago in addition to what we know today as House, the club name comes from The Warehouse, where it appeared, all current variants of the House come from the primitive branch of the Chicago House House.