When Annemarie Catania heard her daughter’s school was planning to travel to the Adler Planetarium to see the solar eclipse, she immediately signed up to be a chaperone. She sat outside the planetarium Monday in a crowd of thousands assembled along the building’s perimeter, watching the moon move in front of the sun. “In 2017, I went outside and tried to see it with a colander,” Catania said. .
More than 1,000 Chicago Public Schools students crowded the rotunda at the Museum of Science and Industry on Monday morning, building rockets, learning to use telescopes and attempting to draw the sun’s outermost layer. About 5,000 visitors are expected to gather to watch the solar eclipse at the Chicago museum, which is hosting an official viewing in its courtyard. Inside, visitors will watch .
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