Shopping with Family, in Chicago

If you're visiting Chicago with your family, there are many stores to shop in whether you're looking for something special or just looking for something fun to do!

While you're visiting popular stores like 900 North Michigan Shops, Chicago Place, Gurnee Mills, Hawthorn Center, Old Orchard, Shops at the Mart, State Street, Westfield North Bridge, and Water Tower Place, be sure to stop in at American Girl Place if you're with your children or would like to explore what the store has to offer in American Girls.

American Girl Place

Whether you're a mother, daughter, or someone who appreciates the celebration of American girls, you'll find shopping at American Girl Place a pleasure, with dolls, doll clothes, accessories, and more.

Not only does American Girl Place feature the historical dolls in its American Girls Collection, contemporary dolls in its American Girl Today collection, baby dolls in the Bitty Baby and the Bitty Twins, Collection, and much more, but there are is also a wide variety of books at the American Girl bookstore. And if all this shopping makes you hungry or you'd like to relax with a cup of afternoon tea, visit American Girl Cafe.

Bring your daughter to American Girl Place, and find matching outfits for her and her doll, get her doll a new hairstyle at the Doll Hair Salon, or have her fixed at the Doll Hospital, and much more!

Woodfield Shopping Mall

If you have other shopping to do after visiting American Girl Place, bring your family to the Woodfield Mall, in the suburb of Schaumburg, northwest of Chicago. With names like A/X Armani Exchange, Nordstrom, Marshall Field's, Lord & Taylor, JCPenney, bebe, Banana Republic, and more, this mall is complete with about 300 stores and restaurants; you're sure to find what you're looking for at the Woodfield Shopping Mall, whether you're looking for a particular item or just looking for fun.

After you've worked up an appetite from shopping, you'll be happy to find a variety of full service restaurants, such as RainForest Cafe, Red Robin, Vie de France, Cheesecake Factory, and Todai Seafood Buffet, and more, as well as fast food restaurants if you're in a hurry to eat and get back to shopping. Stop by Build-a-Bear to help your child customize his or her own stuffed animal, or go by the Disney Store to buy memorabilia of your favorite Disney characters.  You can spend all day with your family at the Woodfield Shopping Mall.

With shopping destinations like these and many more in Chicago, you may want to consider lodging nearby. Comfort Inn & Suites and Sofitel Chicago Ohare are among the Chicago hotels that offer lodging near shopping areas.