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The only thing better than the Shedd experience is the shared Shedd experience.

Group Visits to Shedd
We make it easy for your civic organization, not-for-profit group, social club, or hobbyist group to have a day of fun and discovery at Shedd. Here’s how to get started and book a group reservation.

School Field Trip Visits to Shedd
To book a school group visit (for Illinois schools, out-of-state schools and home schools), click here for information and the school field trip reservation form.

DID YOU KNOW?

Record day Shedd's attendance record of 4.69 million visitors was set in 1931, a year after the aquarium opened. One of the reasons that record may never be broken is that on one day, May 21, 1931 — a Thursday — Shedd tallied 78,658 guests. What could attract those throngs — a never-before-seen fish? free attendance? free food? Try a cross-country Army Air Corps war-game maneuver, involving 672 planes swooping and zooming past Navy Pier. Hundreds of thousands of people jammed the Loop and lakefront, and then a really big group of them evidently decided to take in the aquarium.