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Chicago

United States of America · 12 quests

History

2 quests
Surgical Science Museum, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Surgical Science Museum
A former mansion is packed with surgical tools
Water Tower, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Water Tower
It survived a fire that erased most of the city

Nature

2 quests
Oz Park, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Oz Park
Dorothy’s cast stands in the grass
Lily Pool, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Lily Pool
A small waterfall runs through a hidden garden

Art

1 quest
Cloud Gate, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Cloud Gate
The skyline bends across its steel skin

Food

3 quests
Root Beer, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Root Beer
Its dark, sweet taste comes from a house recipe
Fluffy Omelet, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Fluffy Omelet
Its height comes from the air inside
Pig Face, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Pig Face
A sunny-side egg sits on the roasted cut

Beach

1 quest
Oak Street Beach, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Oak Street Beach
Sand meets the lake below the high-rises

Sport

2 quests
Wrigley Field, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Wrigley Field
Someone turns the scoreboard by hand
United Center, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
United Center
Two teams share the same giant roof

Party

1 quest
Three Dots, Chicago🇺🇸 Chicago
Three Dots
A hidden door opens into a tiki basement

United States of America

Photo quests in Chicago

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Chicago holds twelve quests across every category the catalogue keeps, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in History behind it.

None of them is tier 1 — the tier the catalogue reserves for finds nobody would already have on a list — so every check-in in Chicago is open on any plan. Tier 3 covers eight of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Chicago quests among them.

Nearby

Cities near Chicago

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Chicago

How many photo quests are there in Chicago?
12, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Among them: Surgical Science Museum, Oz Park and Cloud Gate.
Can you do all the Chicago quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 6.4 km of the middle of the Chicago list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Chicago quests can you do for free?
All 12. The PRO gate covers checking in to the hardest tier of quests, and Chicago holds none of that tier, so every quest here can be read, travelled to and checked in on the free plan. Checking in anywhere needs an account, because a verified visit has to belong to somebody, but an account costs nothing.
How do I prove I visited a place in Chicago?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Chicago is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Surgical Science Museum fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Chicago sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.