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Milwaukee is an easy, underrated city day, the stunning Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum with its winged brise soleil on the lakefront, historic breweries (this is Brewtown), the Historic Third Ward…
The Amtrak Hiawatha runs several times daily from Chicago's Union Station to downtown Milwaukee in about 90 minutes, roughly $25–50 round trip.
Buy the Hiawatha ticket ahead for the best fare, and time the art museum for when the wings open and close (a scheduled daily spectacle). The core sights are walkable or a short rideshare apart.
It's twenty minutes on the L, needs no planning, and packs a genuinely world-class architecture walk into an easy afternoon.
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