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More appropriately, the Fern Room, at the Garfield Park Conservatory
A small piece of the jungle indoors - designed by Jens Jensen, it's a representation of what Illinois would have looked like 300 million years ago. Besides the ferns and cycads, you'll also find a lagoon with fish in it, two waterfalls, and two streams, each flowing across the path which goes around the room. While beautiful, it's extremely humid so dress accordingly (I didn't).
From the sign at the entrance:
This room provides a glimpse of what Chicago might have looked like millions of years ago.
Designer Jens Jensen loved midwestern landscapes; the Fern Room is his imaginative tribute to prehistoric Illinois. So natural looking was the result that when the Conservatory first opened, visitors thought it had been erected over an existing lagoon. One of Jensen's chief contributions to greenhouse design was to display plants in a naturalistic setting rather than in groups of pots. This revolutionary approach became known as "landscape gardening under glass."
The Fern Room is home to some of the oldest species of plants on earth.
Many of the plants in this room date to the time of the dinosaurs. They have changed little from their ancestors over the last 200 million years. Our plants, of course, are not that old. The oldest are about 300 years of age.
https://garfieldconservatory.org/gardens-collections/fern-room/
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