While school was out...

There was Open Streets Chicago.

Dad and the kids joined friends for a water taxi ride to Chinatown.

Dad and the kids brought one of Levynn's friends to the Museum of Science and Industry, where we found a couple things we somehow hadn't seen on our many other visits - like the inside of this United Airlines plane, which we had thought was just another of the planes hanging from the ceiling.

And remember the wheel of time?

For the grand finale on Tuesday, the last day of the strike, Dad and the kids joined all of the friends from the previous two outings and their families at Adler Planetarium.

The Field Museum, with the same gang, was on the docket for the next day - if school had not started. Thankfully, it did.