PLEASE HELP with advice for a family of first time visitor..

Hi...and thanks and sorry if off topic but not sure where to get trusted
advice on our impending visit to Chicago (first time)......
We are staying at a nice hotel just off of Magnificent Mile, centrally
located to the other hotels around there, but are wondering what to do,
where to go, where to eat, fun, etc while we are in town for the first
time!! We've been told to try to check out Navy Pier, as well as Millenium
Park, and the Sears Tower is obvius, and Dad wants to see Wrigley
Field.........anything else we should take in? How about meals? (budgeted
for a working family of 4)???

If you can email reply please do, as it won't further clog the group, which
we do apologize for but we just wanted trusted advice, not from
tourist-trap-guides/services etc etc.......thanx

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:08:09 -0500, "VideoCollector"
<videocollector DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote:

>Hi...and thanks and sorry if off topic but not sure where to get trusted
>advice on our impending visit to Chicago (first time)......
>We are staying at a nice hotel just off of Magnificent Mile, centrally
>located to the other hotels around there, but are wondering what to do,
>where to go, where to eat, fun, etc while we are in town for the first
>time!! We've been told to try to check out Navy Pier, as well as Millenium
>Park, and the Sears Tower is obvius, and Dad wants to see Wrigley
>Field.........anything else we should take in? How about meals? (budgeted
>for a working family of 4)???
>
>If you can email reply please do, as it won't further clog the group, which
>we do apologize for but we just wanted trusted advice, not from
>tourist-trap-guides/services etc etc.......thanx

While you're getting some answers here, a much better place to ask
this question is chi.general. Some really great folks in that group
(not that the folks here aren't great, but chi.general has more pure
Chicagoans in it).