If It Keeps On Rainin'

A week from now I will be en route to Chicago. Yes—the Windy City, the Pride of the Rust Belt, the City of the Big Shoulders(?). I'm going to visit Leigh, who moved there from DC about a year and half ago. I'll be there for about three full days. I've never been and don't get to travel nearly as much as I'd like to, so I'm pretty excited about it.

I've been asking around here and there about things I should check out. Of course Leigh will be there to show me around, but I'll have at least one free day to myself. I have a few ideas so far (see below), and we're seeing Slint play at the Metro on the 25th, but everything else is wide open. So I'm wondering if anyone reading could suggest some things a first time visitor should check out. Main interests include record stores, book stores, museums, sites of photographic interest, and good restaurants.

The List so far:

Quimby's
Sweet Thang
Museum of Science and Industry [esp. this!]
The Field Museum
The Art Institute
Shedd Aquarium