My wife is out of town this weekend and am looking for new things to do with my two boys 14 and 12 in Chicago area. Anyone have any thoughts?

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Sooo many things (also great for date nights with the wife):

VR lounge experience/gaming
Fireworks cruise
Navy pier
Trampoline park
Rock climbing
Kayaking on the river
Beach day
Paint night/pottery class
Amazing FunHouse
Drive-in movie
Escape room
Indoor skydiving
Ping pong restaurant (Ace something)
Field museum
Pasta making/kids cooking class
Try a new sport like fencing, curling, horse riding
Six Flags

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Borrow your dad’s Ferrari, go to the museum, and take over a parade.

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You’ve mixed Ferris and Cameron here.

My teenage nephews loved the Seadog boat or renting our own electric boat on the river and we did kayaking one year and they thought that was fun, The Tilt thing at Hancock, iFly indoor skydiving, eli’s Ark for ice cream (although the older one did roll his eyes at this but ultimately ate the ice cream so, who knows) and Big Star for tacos. If you go kayaking, I thought the one downtown was a little much in terms of other boat traffic, would recommend going down to Ping Tom boathouse. We did several of these things pre covid so you’d have to check hours/availability.

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The science museum?

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Golf range

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