The museum contains over 24 million objects and specimens in its collection. And probably the most popular parts of that collection are the dinosaurs.
And the most famous of the dinosaur fossils there is Sue, which is considered to be the largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found.
Sue is 40 feet long and 13 feet high, and is estimated to be about 67 million years old.
And just like those islands from the Jurassic Park movies, you can find dinosaurs all over the museum. This one is named Maximo, and is a titanosaur (which is the largest dinosaur ever found).
The titanosaur towers over the African elephants that are also on display.
We left the museum and then walked along the lake for a bit, passing by the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. We walked by a small beach, and since it was a hot summer day there were lots of people out swimming. Before we went back to the hotel, I stopped to get a few pictures from the Planetarium, which offered this nice view of the Chicago skyline.
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