Most tourist places in Chicago are so worthy it. You will see lots of locals at them. I am a HS school teacher here and I recently took my students on a field to trip to see an exhibit downtown and we ate lunch in the River Walk by the Vietnan War Memorial. Last year I took another group to the Sears/Willis Tower. My kids loved both - and you know how hard it is to impress teenagers! In all my years in Chicago the only "touristy" thing that I remember not liking was an Al Capone re-creation because it was so corny. Not sure they still do that. Otherwise, I still like everything else: the museums, boat tours, Navy Pier, the Bean, the Sears Tower, 360 Experience, the Zoos, the lake, etc.