{"id":94608841,"date":"2011-06-30T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/plan-to-revamp-chicago-s-navy-pier-calls-for-new-hotel-museum-expansion\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:24:00","slug":"plan-to-revamp-chicago-s-navy-pier-calls-for-new-hotel-museum-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/plan-to-revamp-chicago-s-navy-pier-calls-for-new-hotel-museum-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Revamp Chicago\u2019s Navy Pier Calls for New Hotel, Museum Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>The sun sets behind Chicago&#39;s Navy Pier <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA new $155 million plan to revamp Chicago&rsquo;s Navy Pier calls for the construction of a new boutique hotel at the pier&rsquo;s east end as well as the expansion of both the Chicago Children&rsquo;s Museum and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe plan was unveiled Thursday by members of Navy Pier, Inc., the non-profit organization which will take over Navy Pier operations beginning Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new plan is much more modest than a $2 billion renovation proposed back in 2006. The scaling back reflects calls from politicians and the public to keep the pier first and foremost a public gathering place rather than a glorified theme park.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLocated on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, Navy Pier is the largest tourist attraction in the state of Illinois.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20110630\/NEWS09\/110639991\/navy-piers-155-mil-revamp-calls-for-hotel-bigger-childrens-museum\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Business<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The sun sets behind Chicago&#39;s Navy Pier &nbsp; A new $155 million plan to revamp Chicago&rsquo;s Navy Pier calls for the construction of a new boutique hotel at the pier&rsquo;s east end as well as the expansion of both the Chicago Children&rsquo;s Museum and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.&nbsp; &nbsp; The plan was unveiled Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}