This unique display will create excitement at Navy Pier during the winter months, and provide educational and fun activities for the entire family. The exhibit will be in place for two months, January 14 through March 19, and will be displayed in Navy Pier's Crystal Gardens in a setting that evokes the dinosaurs' habitat, complete with palm trees and fountains. Panels and real fossil bones in cases are designed to engage visitors. The head and neck cross-section will show what the dinosaur looked like in life, and interlocking foam bone replicas will allow families to reconstruct part of the huge skeleton.
Dinosaurs continue to fascinate people of all ages.
I hope people throughout the region will take this opportunity to come to Chicago and see this exhibit. The Tourism Private Sector Grant Program funds events that generate significantly increased economic impact for the state, and these innovative exhibits offered at no charge to the public promise to translate into increased tourism dollars spent in the Chicago area this winter. Attracting and hosting these types of major, world class events generate increase overnight stays and travel into and throughout the state. Private sector grants can provide up to 50 percent of eligible costs associated with attracting and hosting events, with the remaining costs financed by private sector funds.