Chicago is an excellent city to visit, with sights and activities to suit everyone, but not known to many are some of the lesser known sights and curiosities of Chicago. A great way of getting in and around Chicago is with a bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coach or school bus
rented from Bus Rental Chicago. Travel around Chicago in style and comfort as your charter bus takes you around the city to visit some of its lesser known attractions.
If you’ve ever wondered what a million dollars looks like, take your rental bus over to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Inside, charter bus visitors will find a free to visit museum that explains the role of the Federal Reserve in the American economy. The main attraction is a giant 2 ton cube of a million dollars in 1 dollar bills, or you can have your picture taken holding a suitcase containing a million dollars. A short video presentation is given to charter bus visitors, and a typical tour lasts about 45 minutes. All visitors are given $300 after their visit. In shredded bills.
U-505 is a German Type IXC U-boat built for service in the Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured on 4 June 1944 by the U.S. Navy and her codebooks, Enigma machine and other secret materials found on board assisted Allied code breaking operations. After examination and testing, she was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in 1954. Today, rental bus visitors can visit U-505 where she rests in an underground purpose built enclosure, examining her interior and reliving the experience of a wartime submariner. In 1989, U-505 was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Rental bus visitors to Chicago with a fear of heights may want to give this one a miss. Step off your rental bus at the Willis Tower, and head to the 103rd floor Skydeck, to step off “The Ledge”. Charter bus visitors can step out from the Tower, into the tempered glass boxes, and look straight down between their feet, 1353 feet, to the busy streets far below. The inspiration for the creation of The Ledge was that many visitors to the Skydeck kept pressing their heads to the windows, trying to look straight down, so a glass box, with a glass floor was created to allow rental bus visitors brave enough to step off The Ledge to look straight down.
At the height of the Prohibition, Chicago was ruled by mobsters and the most notorious of them all was Al Capone, the man responsible for the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. It happened on February 14, 1929, when seven members of the Bugs Moran gang were gunned down by members of the Al Capone gang. The victims were stood against a brick wall and shot. The wall was part of the SMG Cartage Company garage, which was demolished in 1967, but the bloodstained, bullet-pockmarked 10-foot-long wall was bought at an auction by Canadian businessman George Patey. What remains on the site in Chicago is a small fenced-off lawn and that belongs to a nearby nursing home. Rental bus visitors to the site will see five trees which form a rough line in the lot; the one in the middle marks the spot where the wall stood.
For a fun filled tour of Chicago, and to visit some of its major and minor attractions, give Bus Rentals Chicago a call and find out how they can help you with their friendly, personalized service.
