Like Santa’s workshop, toys ran down a conveyor
belt.  We fed $5 into a slot, named our Gravitron Top
“Bob” and selected “green” for its color.  Mechanical
arms assembled pieces, plastic packaged it, and
“Bob” dropped into our 7-year-old’s hands.
“ToyMaker 3000” enchanted our kids, as did the
surrounding skiing, race car, and motor cycle video
games, a small part of the 400,000 square feet of
exhibit space at Chicago’s Museum of Industry
which now features “Christmas Around the World”
and “Holidays of Light.”

In what the kids called “the most amazing museum,
ever,” we traveled down a mine shaft and rode a
work train in a coal mine, climbed the walls at Fast
Forward, and went aboard a German submarine,
the U505, captured by allied soldiers in World War
II.    We watched model trains, observed modern
aircraft and the kids worked with magnets, water,
balls and other cool things in the Idea Factory.
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57th Street and Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60637
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